Tim Cooney

Tim Cooney was born on Jun 14, 1951 in USA. Tim Cooney's big-screen debut came with Tourist Trap directed by David Schmoeller in 1979. Tim Cooney is known for Secretariat directed by Randall Wallace, Diane Lane stars as Penny Chenery and John Malkovich as Lucien Laurin. The upcoming new movie Tim Cooney plays is Something Wicked which will be released on Apr 11, 2014.

Tim graduated from the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Clown college in 1971. He then traveled with several circuses where he learned to train elephants. He then went to the St. Louis zoo where he trained elephants for the show. After moving back to California his original home state, he was hired to train elephants for the film business. Because he plays 4 musical instruments he was fascinated with sound and naturally gravitated to that field. In 1976 Tim started working as a boom man at Universal Studios. He mixed his first studio picture for Columbia in 1981, entitled Blue Thunder. Since then he has become well respected in his field as a production sound mixer and has 9 nominations for various awards that include an Oscar, 3 Emmys, 2 Cinema Audio society awards and 3 Golden Reel nominations. Tim won the Golden Reel for best sound in 2000.