Tim Cooney

Who is Tim Cooney?

Tim Cooney is an American production sound mixer. Cooney played guitar in a bluegrass band called the Canfields who were very well known at the time In West Virginia. After struggling with his music career he quit and got accepted to the Ringling Brother Barnum and Baily Clown College. After graduating from the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Baily clown college he worked as a clown on circus Vargas for a year but decided he wanted to train animals. He trained animals for circuses, the St. Louis Zoo, and then the film business. As animal training became politically incorrect Cooney decided it was time for another career change.

In 1976, Cooney started working as a boom man at Universal Studios. His first studio picture as production mixer was Blue Thunder for Columbia Pictures in 1981. Cooney was the first production mixer in history to have sound on his own web page. He had several animated items on his page as well, which had not been done at the time. The page has been taken down since his retirement. Cooney sat twice on the board of directors of the Cinema Audio Society is still a member of the motion picture academy of arts and sciences and the television academy of arts and sciences. Cooney was a producer on the movie the November Conspiracy. He also directed a few music videos, the most notable "About Love" with the singer Johnny Rivers.