Dan Sable
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- January 28, 1930
- Died
- December 21, 2025 (aged 95)
- Birthplace
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
Dan Sable (January 28, 1930 – December 21, 2025) was an American sound editor born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied music at Ohio State University, earning a master's degree in composition, and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War before beginning a career in film sound in New York. In 1979 he founded Hastings Sound Editorial, and he became an early adopter of digital sound editing. His work includes many films by Woody Allen and Brian De Palma, among them Annie Hall, Manhattan, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out and The Untouchables, as well as Dirty Dancing, Something Wild, A Bronx Tale and Dead Man Walking. He retired in 2000.
Known For
Filmography

Picture Perfect
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

In the Gloaming
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Ransom
Movie · Sound Effects Editor

Dead Man Walking
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Apollo 13
Movie · Dialogue Editor

Don't Drink the Water
Movie · Sound Editor

Mixed Nuts
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

A Bronx Tale
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

The Night We Never Met
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Shadows and Fog
Movie · Sound Designer

Billy Bathgate
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Miami Blues
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Reversal of Fortune
Movie · Sound Editor

An Innocent Man
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

She-Devil
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Slaves of New York
Movie · Sound Editor

New York Stories
Movie · Sound Editor

September
Movie · Sound Editor

Dirty Dancing
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

The Untouchables
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Something Wild
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Broadway Danny Rose
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

The Little Drummer Girl
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Zelig
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Star 80
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Neighbors
Movie · Sound Editor

Eyewitness
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Blow Out
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Dressed to Kill
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor

Simon
Movie · Sound Editor

Stardust Memories
Movie · Sound Editor

Hollow Image
Movie · Sound Editor

Manhattan
Movie · Sound Editor

Chilly Scenes of Winter
Movie · Sound Effects Editor

Breaking Away
Movie · Sound Editor

Holocaust
TV · Sound Editor · 4 eps

Annie Hall
Movie · Sound Editor

Blue Sunshine
Movie · Sound Editor

Carrie
Movie · Sound Editor

Obsession
Movie · Sound Effects Editor

Squirm
Movie · Sound Editor

Dark August
Movie · Sound Editor

Alice, Sweet Alice
Movie · Sound Editor
A Mother's Tale
Movie · Sound

Rancho Deluxe
Movie · Sound Editor

Love and Death
Movie · Sound Editor

That's the Way of the World
Movie · Sound Effects Editor

Phantom of the Paradise
Movie · Sound Editor

Man on a Swing
Movie · Sound Editor

Rivals
Movie · Sound Editor

AWOL
Movie · Sound Editor

Last Summer
Movie · Sound Editor