Robert Backus
- Sound Department
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Born in Stockton, California, and raised in Carmichael, a suburb of
Sacramento, Robert was a professional musician, playing keyboards and
singing with the bands Euphoria, Shanghai, Zazz, Mind Over Matter,
Urgency and others before moving to Los Angeles in 1993. He came to
Hollywood to fullfill a lifelong dream of working in the movie business
and has concentrated on the technical side of on-set dialogue recording
while continuing to pursue his ambitions as a film composer. Starting
in 1995, as the cableman on the (unreleased) family film Amanda, shot
in Montana, Rob has gone on to work as a boom operator and sound mixer
on over 100 "shows", including television, commercials, shorts and
feature films. Robert has privately released 4 albums of evocative
soundtrack-like instrumental compositions and performed his original
vocal tunes at Highland Grounds in L.A.
