Harold William Varney (January 22, 1934 – April 2, 2011) was an American motion picture sound mixer.
[3] Varney won collaborative back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Sound for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981.
[3][5] Additionally, Varney was nominated an Emmy Award for his sound work on the 1977 television miniseries, Roots.
[3] Varney's numerous film credits included The Last Waltz in 1978, Grease in 1978, Ordinary People in 1980, Poltergeist and My Favorite Year, both released in 1982, and Dragonheart in 1996.
[3] Rick Schmidlin produced the re-edit for Universal Pictures based on a 58-page lost memo written by Welles a year before the film was released.