Matthew Wood (sound editor)

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Matthew Wood
Wood at the Brussels Comic Con in 2019
Born	Matthew Russell Wood (1972-08-15) August 15, 1972 (age 49) Walnut Creek, California, U.S.
Occupation	Sound engineer, voice actor
Years active	1990–present

Matthew Russell Wood (born August 15, 1972) is an American sound editor and voice actor. For the last 28 years, he has worked on numerous film projects, his work being credited as sound editing and sound design. He has been an innovative force within the industry, pioneering new technologies for motion pictures. He is a supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California. He also voices General Grievous in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and various video games.

Career[]

Starting at Lucasfilm as a game tester at LucasArts,^[1] Wood then moved to the company's sound department and worked on all three films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy as supervising sound editor and also did an uncredited acting role in The Phantom Menace as Bib Fortuna and the voice of Ody Mandrell. In Attack of the Clones, he played Seboca and Magaloof. In Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, in addition to a brief appearance as Orn Free Taa, Wood plays the voice role of General Grievous, a role originated by voice actors John DiMaggio and Richard McGonagle in the series Star Wars: Clone Wars. In the film, he dubbed the voice of stuntman Kyle Rowling, who played General Grievous utilizing motion capture.

He would later come back to work with the Star Wars expanded universe. He reprised his voice role of General Grievous in General Grievous Halloween audiocast as well as all video game appearances of Grievous with the exception of Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron where Grievous was played by David W. Collins. He reprised his role as General Grievous and the battle droids in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and associated television series. In the series, he once again voiced Grievous as well as Wat Tambor,^[2] HELIOS-3D,^[3] senate guards,^[3] the battle droids^[3] and Poggle the Lesser.^[4] He provided the voice of RO-GR/Roger, a reprogrammed battle droid in Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.

He has received five Academy Award nominations for Sound Editing: for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood at the 80th Academy Awards, for the Pixar sci-fi film WALL-E at the 81st Academy Awards, for Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the 88th Academy Awards, for Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the 90th Academy Awards, and for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker at the 92nd Academy Awards.

Wood made an appearance in Adult Swim's Robot Chicken in 2008.

Filmography[]

Sound editing[]

Voice acting[]

Film[]

Television[]

Video games[]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Matthew Wood.

• Matthew Wood - Skywalker Sound
• Matthew Wood at IMDb