Title: Associate Professor
Education: MA Film Production, USC
Areas of Specialization: Film Sound Editing/Recording, Sound Effects Design
Program Track: Recording Arts
Phone: 310-338-2801
E-mail: rpardee@lmu.edu
Personal Web Site: http://myweb.lmu.edu/rpardee/

Rodger Pardee received his MA in Film Production from the University of Southern California in 1981. Since then he has worked in the area of film sound in a number of capacities: production sound, re-recording mixing, and sound editing. Since 1986 he has specialized in sound effects editing and design for feature films. In 1988 he was invited to teach film sound as an adjunct at USC and did so on and off, schedule permitting, until 1997. In 1999 he became a visiting assistant professor in Recording Arts at LMU and the following year joined the faculty fulltime. He is a member of the Motion Picture Sound Editors and among his M.P.S.E. Golden Reel nominations are those for special sound effects recording for To Live and Die in L.A., Waterworld and Men in Black, and sound effects editing for X Files and Geronimo: An American Legend.

If you're the type of person who stays for a film's end credits, you may have glimpsed his name going by "somewhere between the animal trainer and the Dolby consultant."