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Cyril Crowhurst

sound engineer (1906-1995)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ5200679 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cyril Crowhurst (9 March 1906 – 29 January 1995) was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Sound Recording for the film Trio.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Cyril Crowhurst” as sound engineer (1906-1995). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cyril, Crowhurst and sound.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1906-03-09. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cyril, Crowhurst and sound providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5200679. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1906 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cyril Crowhurst” 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.