"The irrational dedication and inhuman schedules of the early days have been muted a bit, but if I'm working on a good picture with a good crew and have that fundamental creative identification with the project, it's a work of passion."
—Richard Beggs to Matteo Milani for Unidentified Sound Object.

Richard Beggs (born January 8, 1942) is an American sound designer who has worked on more than 70 films since 1979. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Apocalypse Now, a TEC Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Film Sound, and has received seven Golden Reel Award sound nominations. He has designed sound for Sofia Coppola's films The Virgin Suicides, Lost In Translation, Marie Antoinette, Somewhere, The Bling Ring and The Beguiled. His other sound design credits include Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Children of Men, Adaptation, The Godfather Part III, Palo Alto, Bugsy, Rain Man, and Ghostbusters. He has worked with directors like Francis Coppola, Alfonso Cuarón, Barry Levinson, Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Jonze, Alex Cox, Wes Anderson, and Gia Coppola.

Richard has taught film sound at the California College of the Arts, conducted master classes for SFFilm, is an associate fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University, and sat on the board of directors of the San Francisco Arts Education Project (1986-2013).

In addition to his work on film, he created scores for three contemporary ballets, winning an Isadora Duncan Award for the ballet score of The Awakening. Trained as a painter, he has exhibited at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum of Art, and collaborated with the S.F. Museum of Conceptual Art. A native San Franciscan, his sound studio is located at the San Francisco Film Centre in the Presidio of San Francisco.

In front of the Tippett Studio Canteen, Juan's House of Cheese, where Merritt Crocker took this photo of, from left to right, that's Phil Tippett, Alex Cox, Dan Wool, and Richard Beggs (and Merritt's shadow flashing a peace sign in the foreground).