Overview
- Causey died Sunday in Cathedral City, California, after a long illness at age 76, confirmed by his daughter-in-law Crystal Causey.
- He received an Academy Award nomination for Dick Tracy and a Primetime Emmy nomination for the NBC telefilm Fire on the Mountain.
- He worked on 11 films with John Carpenter, including Halloween, The Thing, Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.
- He was part of the first team to introduce digital sound recording to a feature on Dick Tracy.
- His credits include four Star Trek films with the Next Generation cast and collaborations with Francis Ford Coppola, James L. Brooks, Steven Soderbergh and Terry Gilliam; survivors include his wife Christina and son Jesse.