Ken Nightingall

Keneth Patrick Nightingall (April 21, 1929 – May 19, 2020) was a British sound engineer who worked on IV. The film earned the Academy Award for Best Sound in 1978, although Nightingall himself was not named on the citation. In 2015, a photograph of Nightingall wearing pink shorts and no shirt while operating a boom pole on the film's set went viral, earning him the nickname Pink Shorts Boom Guy among fans. Following a battle with COVID-19, Nightingall died on May 19, 2020, at the age of 91.

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