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Charles Grenzbach

American sound engineer (1923-2004)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ5078430 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charles Grenzbach (December 29, 1923 – March 29, 2004) was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for two more in the same category. He worked on more than 130 films between 1956 and 1989.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Charles Grenzbach” is american sound engineer (1923-2004). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Charles, Grenzbach and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 2004, 1956, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-12-29. For this dossier, Charles, Grenzbach and American is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5078430. VIAF identifies the subject as 169127416. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1923, 2004, 1956 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Grenzbach” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.