Daniel J. Bloomberg (July 4, 1905 – August 14, 1984) was an Academy Award-winning audio engineer. Bloomberg's first
Hollywood credit was in 1934, his last his
Oscar-nominated work on
John Ford’s The Quiet Man 18 years later. In the intervening time, he worked on several films in the
Dick Tracy and
Zorro series.
Although his work was mainly confined to B pictures, Bloomberg did enjoy the distinction of winning five technical awards from the Academy, as well as eight Academy Award nominations. He also won an Honorary Award in 1945 for designing and building a musical scoring auditorium with
state-of-the-art acoustics.
Bloomberg was married to award-winning British actress and beauty queen Eugenie Prescott Bloomberg[1] (born: 1909, Cheshire, England, UK) whose film credits include
The Rising Generation (1928),
The Flying Squad (1929) and
Diggers (1931).[2]