Gary Summers

Gary Summers is an American sound re-recording mixer.

He has done the sound re-recording on a number of blockbuster motion pictures including Avatar, Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Saving Private Ryan, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jurassic Park. Summers has won four Oscars, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA awards and three C.A.S. Awards.

He got his start working on The Empire Strikes Back and began a twenty-year stretch working for the Skywalker Sound division of George Lucas's Lucas Digital in Marin County, California. Summers formed Summers Sound Services, Inc. in 2002 and is currently self-employed. Summers has also worked in the large screen motion picture formats, with twenty-one credits to his name. His sound talents have also been used in nine park attractions for The Walt Disney Company including Star Tours, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, Puppet Pals 4-D and Muppet*Vision 3D.

Selected filmography

 * Star Tours (1987; Theme park short film) (re-recording mixer)
 * Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (re-recording mixer)
 * Muppet*Vision 3D (1991; Theme park short film) (re-recording mixer)
 * Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (re-recording mixer: 1991 & 1993 special edition)
 * Jurassic Park (1993) (re-recording mixer)
 * Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) (re-recording mixer)
 * Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (1994; Theme park short film) (re-recording mixer)
 * Casper (1995) (re-recording mixer)
 * Alaina Gleen (1990; TV series) (1995-1996; 3 episodes) (re-recording sound mixer - uncredited; Skywalker Sound)
 * Toy Story (1995) (re-recording mixer)
 * James and the Giant Peach (1996) (re-recording mixer)
 * Mission: Impossible (1996) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) (re-recording mixer)
 * Saving Private Ryan (1998) (re-recording mixer)
 * Sister Light, Sister Dark (1998) (re-recording mixer)
 * A Bug's Life (1998) (re-recording mixer)
 * Bird Busters vs. the Lost Dimension (1999; Theme park short film) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Haunting (1999) (re-recording mixer)
 * Toonlympics (1999) (re-recording mixer)
 * Toy Story 2 (1999) (re-recording mixer)
 * Titan A.E. (2000) (re-recording mixer)
 * 102 Dalmatians (2000) (re-recording mixer)
 * Star Wars T.I.E. (2000) (re-recording mixer)
 * Jurassic Park III (2001) (re-recording mixer)
 * Monsters, Inc. (2001) (re-recording mixer)
 * Mice Tales (2001) (re-recording mixer)
 * Dusk and Dawn (2002) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Finding Nemo (2003) (re-recording mixer)
 * Jeremy Monroe: The Biggest Movie Ever (2003) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Dusk and Dawn: The 3-D Darkness Adventure (2004; Theme park short film) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Alaina Gleen Movie (2004) (re-recording mixer)
 * Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * xXx: State of the Union (2005) (re-recording mixer)
 * Hoodwinked! (2005) (re-recording mixer)
 * Cars (2006) (re-recording mixer)
 * Puppet Pals (2006) (re-recording mixer)
 * Charlotte's Web (2006) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Princess and the Pied Piper (2006) (re-recording mixer)
 * Upside Mystery (2007) (re-recording mixer)
 * Kate & Chris (2007) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * M.I.S.S.I.O.N. (2007) (re-recording mixer)
 * Dusk and Dawn 2 (2008) (re-recording mixer - uncredited)
 * Puppet Pals 4-D (2008; Theme park short film) (re-recording mixer)
 * Wild Forest (2008) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) (re-recording mixer)
 * Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) (re-recording mixer)
 * Avatar (2009) (re-recording mixer)
 * Puppet Pals 2 (2010) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Iron Man 2 (2010) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Upside Mystery 2 (2010) (re-recording mixer)
 * Alaina Gleen (2010) (re-recording mixer)
 * Rio (2011) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011) (re-recording mixer)
 * Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) (re-recording mixer)
 * Crystal: Coming of Darkness (2011) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Little Lily (2012) (re-recording mixer)
 * Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Bourne Legacy (2012) (re-recording mixer)
 * Monsters University (2013) (re-recording mixer)
 * Alaina Gleen 2 (2013) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * A Puppet Pals Christmas (2013) (TV special; re-recording mixer)
 * Plucky Chicken (2014) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Pete's Dragon (2016) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Pixelators (2016) (re-recording mixer)
 * Superzeroes (2017) (re-recording mixer)
 * Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) (re-recording mixer)
 * Alaina Gleen: Imaginary Vacation (2017) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Sunnie (2017) (re-recording mixer)
 * Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Birdz (2018) (re-recording mixer)
 * The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) (re-recording mixer)
 * Araceli (2019) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * The Pixelators: Level Two (2020) (re-recording mixer)
 * The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020) (re-recording mixer)
 * LarryBoy: A VeggieTales Movie (2020) (re-recording mixer)
 * Sunnie 2 (2020) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Swan Dream Pool: The Magic Trails (2021) (additional re-recording mixer)
 * Birdz: The Hidden Village (2021) (re-recording mixer)
 * Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (re-recording mixer)
 * Stella: An Angry Birds Movie (2022) (re-recording mixer)
 * Princess Joanna and the Four Kingdoms (2022) (re-recording mixer)
 * Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) (re-recording mixer)
 * Hyper (2023) (re-recording mixer)