David Acord is an American sound editor and voice actor best known for his contribution as a supervising sound editor of the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Acord received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing and British Academy Film Award for Best Sound for his work on The Force Awakens, with fellow sound editor Matthew Wood. He also provided the voice of several characters in the film, including the stormtrooper FN-2199 (often known as TR-8R). Though the voice role is minimal, the character gained considerable attention on the Internet following the film's release. Acord also had minor voice roles as an Imperial Male PA and two stormtroopers on episodes of Star Wars Rebels. Acord also voiced Grogu for the Disney+ series The Mandalorian. In 2015, Acord was one of the sound designers for the Disney Infinity video game. In 2020, he received his second Academy Award nomination for Best Sound Editing for the 2019 film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, shared with Matthew Wood. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Acord, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Behemoth! — Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2026LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian — MA-13 (voice)
• 2026The Mandalorian and Grogu — Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor
• Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld — C-21 Highsinger / Imperial Tech #4 (voice)
• 2025Superman — Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer
• 2025Violent Ends — Supervising Sound Editor
• 2023Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor
• Andor — Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2021LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales — Medical Droid / Rebel Pilot (voice)
• 2021Licorice Pizza — Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
• Loki — Supervising Sound Editor
• Star Wars Galaxy of Sounds — Sound Designer
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch — Stormtrooper #2 (voice)
• The Book of Boba Fett — Sound Designer
• 2021The Suicide Squad — Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor
• 2019Captain Marvel — Sound Designer
• 2019Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — Supervising Sound Editor
• 2019The Secret Life of Pets 2 — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2018Next Gen — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2018Solo: A Star Wars Story — Sound Designer
• Star Wars Resistance — Kowakians (voice), Guavians (voice), Raider (voice), Sidon Ithano (voice), Tech Stormtrooper (voice)
• 2018The Grinch — Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor
• 2017Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 — Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer
• 2017Phantom Thread — Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• Star Wars: Forces of Destiny — Stormtrooper (voice), Teedo (voice)
• 2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — Additional Voices (voice), Sound Designer
• 2016The Secret Life of Pets — Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2015Avengers: Age of Ultron — Sound Designer
• 2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens — FN-2199 (uncredited), Supervising Sound Editor
• 2014Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Sound Effects Editor
• 2014Guardians of the Galaxy — Sound Designer, Sound Effects Editor
• 2014Inherent Vice — Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• Star Wars Rebels — Protocol Droid #2 (voice), Lead TIE Fighter Pilot / Pilot #2 (voice), Edrio Two Tubes (voice), Imperial Technician #2 (voice), Stormtrooper #1 / Stormtrooper #2 (voice), Imperial Male PA (voice)
• 2013Star Trek Into Darkness — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2012Double Victory: The Tuskegee Airmen at War — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2012LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out — Sound Designer
• 2012Red Tails — Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2012Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Darth Maul Returns — C-21 Highsinger (voice), Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2012The Master — Sound Effects Editor
• 2011Super 8 — Sound Effects Editor
• 2010Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Nightsisters Trilogy — Recording Supervision, Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2008Star Wars: The Clone Wars — Rotta the Huttlet (voice), Sound Designer, Sound Editor
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — Aqualish Technician (voice), Pilf Mukmuk (voice), Rotta / Brainee (voice), Senate Guard / Servant Droid (voice), Rabbit Droid (voice), A-4D Droid (voice), Ship Captain / Rabbit Droid (voice), Albed Dewa / Jimba / Pit Droid (voice), Highsinger (voice), Police Officer (voice), Mandalorian Super Commando (voice), Poletecan Leader / Skakoan Scientist (voice), Mandalorians (voice)
• 2006Clerks II — Sound Effects Editor
• 2006Ice Age: The Meltdown — Assistant Sound Editor
• 2005Feast — Sound Designer
• 2005Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith — GH-7 Medical Droid (voice) (uncredited), Assistant Sound Editor
• 2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones — Apprentice Sound Editor
• 2001Daddy and Them — Utility Sound
• 2000The Patriot — Utility Sound
• 1999Sleepy Hollow — Utility Sound
• 1998Belly — Boom Operator
• 1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Utility Sound
• 1997The Night Flier — Sound Assistant
• 1995Twelve Monkeys — Special Effects

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2020The Skywalker Legacy — Self