Famous voices

You've probably heard it a few times, but may not know you've heard it ... the Wilhelm Scream. It's been in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Toy Story, and Lethal Weapon 4 to name a few. So what is the Wilhelm Scream? In the 1951 film Distant Drums, a voice actor overdubbed a shriek as an alligator "tore" a man's arm off when he wandered too close to a swamp ... and thus the Wilhelm Scream (more a screech) was born. It's been used over the years since by sound engineers and is so much part of a joke by them, it's now the punchline.