Gary A. Hecker

Gary Hecker is a Supervising Foley Artist and Screen Actor’s Guild Vocal Performer at Sony Pictures Entertainment. He loves creating unique and custom sound tracks and doing special creature vocals. He enjoys working with his clients and loves creating unique soundscapes for films And video games.Gary Hecker is well known in Hollywood, and worldwide as being one of the top, and "elite" Foley Sound FX Artists in the business. He has been creating Foley for nearly 4 decades on some of the most iconic and legendary films made. He began his career creating sounds for Star Wars "The Empire Strikes Back". He now has worked on over 400 Feature films, including The Spider-Man films, (7 of them), Steven Spielberg’s "Back to the Future" and "War of the Worlds". He is well known for his work on super hero films, like "Batman VS Superman", "Man of Steel -Superman", "Justice League" and most recently worked on "Venom" Let there be Carnage, and Disney’s "Mufasa" The Lion King. He also has worked with Quentin Tarantino on "Django" and "Hateful Eight" and Tarantino’s latest film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" He has also done many films for Oliver Stone and Zack Snyder. His Foley work includes projects for most of the major studios, in addition to Sony Pictures. They bring their projects to his Sony stage specifically for his expertise in creating their Foley Soundtracks.Gary has worked and contributed Foley on numerous films that have garnished Academy Award nominations and have won the Oscar for best Sound. Gary has been nominated 30 times for the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award and has won 11 of them for Foley Sound and has also won 2 NAMM Awards for Technical Excellence and Creativity.He was voted on the ‘’IT LIST" by Entertainment Weekly as One of Hollywood’s 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment. Gary was invited to the White House and presented as the ‘Best Foley Artist in the World’.Gary is a Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Screen Actors Guild and Motion Picture Sound editors. He is also a well known voice actor in Hollywood. He has provided vocals for some of Hollywoods biggest block busters such as, the Dragon in Shrek, Godzilla vocals , Alien’s in Independence Day, Zombies for Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead, and also creature vocals for Venom "Let there be Carnage" and most recently Lion vocals for Disney’s "Mufasa" the Lion King.