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David W. Collins was born on 26 July 1975 in Vacaville, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Mandalorian (2019), Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021) and The Boss Baby: Back in Business (2018). He has been married to Lauren Sadowski-Collins since 28 September 2013. They have two children.
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- Vacaville, California, USA
David W Collins is a voice actor known for voicing Proxy, Gaku Yashiro, and Spring Mustachio. Take a visual walk through their career and see 56 images of the characters they've voiced and listen to 15 clips that showcase their performances.
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David W. Collins worked for LucasArts as the lead sound designer and voice director with the video game division of the company and also served as an actor and voice actor for the company.
In 2006, Collins recorded death yells of stormtroopers for the LucasArts video game LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy because the LucasArts sound department did all of the vocalizations for the game at the time. The sound effects were eventually placed in the old LucasArts archive.
Collins's most prominent Star Wars voice roles include PROXY in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Darth Maul in Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron, General Grievous in Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, and the battle droids in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Battlefront II, Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron and Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron.
Collins has served as a host at Star Wars Celebrations IV, V, and VI. At Celebration VI in August 2012, he was inducted as an honorary member of the 501st Legion. He also performed the role of Han Solo in the live performance of Star Wars: Smuggler's Gambit, an original radio-style drama exclusive to the event.
Collins voiced several characters in the 2015 film Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, including several stormtroopers, Resistance soldiers and a Hangar Control Officer aboard the Finalizer. He also provided additional voices in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Collins was the sound designer for the 2020 film The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special. For every trilogy era that Rey Skywalker time travelled to, Collins used specific sounds from that era to keep the authenticity. For example, the scene of the trench run used sounds from A New Hope, scenes on the planets Dagobah and Hoth used sounds from The Empire Strikes Back, the podracing scene on Tatooine used podracer sounds from The Phantom Menace, the scene on Exegol used lightning sounds from The Rise of Skywalker, and the sound of Din Djarin's blaster pistol from the The Mandalorian was used for his cameo. Collins also found several vocalizations of Chewbacca's family from The Star Wars Holiday Special in the Skywalker Sound Library. He used those samples in the scene when Chewbacca's family showed up on the Millennium Falcon. Collins also found stormtrooper death yells in the old LucasArts archive, and he incorporated the yells in the scene in which Rey and Darth Vader duel while travelling through portals and various troopers are flying around.
Collins acted as a sound effects editor for the series The Book of Boba Fett. He used an ARP 2600 synthesizer to create the sounds for the RX-Series droid acting as a card dealer for the premiere episode.
•SDCC 2014: "The Heroes of Star Wars Rebels" Panel - Liveblog on StarWars.com (backup link)
•The Star Wars Show: Thrawn: Alliances Book Reveals, SDCC News, and Star Wars Voice Actor David W. Collins! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
•15 Easter Eggs to Find in the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special on StarWars.com (backup link)
•Star Wars Galaxy of Sounds — "Beeps"
•Star Wars Galaxy of Sounds — "Connections"
•Star Wars Galaxy of Sounds — "Dark Side"
1.Easter Eggs to Find in the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special on StarWars.com (backup link)
2.From "Blast that X-Wing!" to "Traitor!": The voices of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on StarWars.com (backup link)
3.The Book of Boba Fett — "Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land"
5.David W. Collins (@DavidWCollins) on Twitter: ""Nowadays I've been making new ones on an arp 2600 synth (like the r3x casino card dealer in the first ep of #TheBookOfBobaFett"" (backup link)
6.Star Wars Celebration Anaheim Announces First Celebrity Guests on StarWars.com (backup link)
7.Fall In with Star Wars: The Bad Batch at Star Wars Celebration on StarWars.com (backup link)
•David W. Collins at the Internet Movie Database
•David Collins (LucasArts) by Dennis Pellegrom on Star Wars Interviews (January, 2011) (content now obsolete; archived from the original on December 9, 2022)
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3,235 Followers, 1,363 Following, 464 Posts - David W. Collins (@davidwcollins) on Instagram: "Voice actor, sound editor/mixer @skywalkersound creator/host @soundtrackdwc".
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Jan 19, 2023 · Learn how David W. Collins, a lifelong Lucasfilm fan and sound artist, contributed to the fantasy adventure series Willow, a sequel to the classic movie. Discover how he worked with the cast, showrunners, and sound team to create and recreate dialogue, ambience, and lore for the world of Thra.
Aug 20, 2021 · Today I'm joined by David W. Collins, sound designer for The Bad Batch for a chat about creating the sound behind the series, Republic Commando, and about voicing several ill-fated...
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