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- Joseph G. Sorokin was born on March 3, 1923 in Freehold, New Jersey. He was an Emmy-Award winning sound editor who created the sound effects for the original "Star Trek" television series and "Mission Impossible." His credits also include the historic television series "Amos 'N' Andy," which was produced at the Hal Roach Studios for CBS. He also created the sound effects for the television series "Mannix," "The Untouchables," "The Lucy Show," "Here's Lucy," and the long running television series "Knot's Landing," which he supervised for 11 years. He also worked on "The Lady From Shanghai," "Yours, Mine, And Ours," and many more television and film attributes. He worked with some of the biggest names in the business like Lucille Ball, Gene Roddenberry, Orson Welles, and Louis B. Mayor and Sam Goldwyn of MGM studios.
- IMDb mini biography by: J. London
- RelativesHarry Landers(Sibling)
- In the book, "The Making of Star Trek," Gene Roddenberry writes, "Can we get Joe Sorokin pulled free to devote some time to STAR TREK now?" Gene was directing this at Lucille Ball who also wanted Joseph Sorokin, with whom she had a close working relationship, to work with her at Desilu Studios on "Here's Lucy" and "The Lucy Show.".
- In 1970, he had to temporarily leave Los Angeles and the studios for Atlanta due to personal considerations. While in Atlanta, he attended Woodrow Wilson College of Law, graduating in 1977 with a J.D. He returned to LA in 1980, and he then started working on the television series, "Dallas" with the producer, David Jacobs. Shortly after, he went to work on the long running, successful series "Knot's Landing," which he supervised for 10 years.
- His most famous achievement in sound editing was for the television series, "Star Trek," for which he created the original, unique sound effects in 1966. When he was first asked by Gene Roddenberry to create the unusual sound effects for the show, Roddenberry gave him a stack of papers with suggestions as to what he wanted but little else to go on. He initially thought the idea was crazy, but said years later that he never realized it would become such a hit.
- In 1991, he was offered the position of President of the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE), but declined the offer because he had retired in 1990.
- Joseph was a highly decorated World War II veteran, an officer, a navigator in the United States Merchant Marine, who has six distinguished service citations, six medals, a medal and a personally signed letter from President Harry Truman thanking him for his honorable service. He also navigated the Merchant Marine ship the Thomas L. Clingman, which made the longest circumnavigational voyage around the world of any United States wartime vessel during World War II.
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