Eric Arthur Tomlinson
Eric Arthur Tomlinson | |
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| Born | 8 January 1931 Preston, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 24 November 2015 (aged 84) |
| Occupation | Audio engineer |
| Known for | Motion picture soundtracks |
Eric Arthur Tomlinson (8 January 1931 – 24 November 2015) was an English recording engineer, who recorded and mixed the scores to more than 120 movies.
He had an aeronautical engineering apprenticeshipship at Fairey Aviation, and served in the Royal Air Force. He then began doing small jobs for Radio Luxemburg, and later joined the International Broadcasting Company, where he recorded John Dankworth, Cleo Laine and Ted Heath among others.
At the end of the 1950s, he moved to cinematic recordings, first with Muir Mathieson. He joined Cine-Tele Sound (CTS) Studios in Bayswater in 1959, where some of his first projects were early James Bond films.