Paul McFadden

McFadden as he appeared on CON: Look Who's Talking

Paul McFadden has been a member of the sound department on the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who since Rose. He has been credited a variety of different ways. For series 1, he was universally credited as dialogue editor. For series 2, he was always credited as sound editor. Beginning with The Runaway Bride, he was seen as supervising sound editor, by which title he continued to be credited on most episodes through series 5. In series 6, he returned to the role of dialogue editor for some episodes, but has otherwise remained a supervising sound editor.

Notably, he was the supervising sound editor for Midnight — an episode for which he shared both a Welsh BAFTA and a Royal Television Society Award with Tim Ricketts, Paul Jefferies and Julian Howarth.

One of McFadden's main responsibilities on Doctor Who has been to direct the ADR process.

Like many members of the Doctor Who crew, he has also lent his talents to Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. He was a credited sound editor for series 1 of Torchwood, but it is believed he was also an uncredited dialogue editor on Day Three and Day Four. He was also the supervising sound editor for at least series 1 of Sarah Jane.

He has been a documentary subject on the episodes of Doctor Who Confidential concerning Tooth and Claw and Midnight.

McFadden's career stretches back to the 1990s. After a series of films in the early-to-late 1990s, he began to work more regularly in television, but generally continued to take film work in the "off-season" from his television projects. His longest-lived television association prior to Doctor Who was his stint as the dialogue editor for series 2-4 of Waking the Dead.

Just prior to his involvement with Doctor Who, he was nominated for a prestigious Golden Reel Award by the Motion Picture Sound Editors society for his work on the 2004 Cate Blanchett film Veronica Guerin.

Whilst working on Doctor Who and her related programmes, McFadden has worked on almost twenty other projects, including the documentary series Oz and James Drink to Britain, and the BBC Wales drama Crash.

Credits

Dialogue editor

• Aliens of London
• Bad Wolf
• Boom Town
• The Curse of the Black Spot
• Dalek
• The Doctor Dances
• The Doctor's Wife
• The Empty Child
• The End of the World
• Father's Day
• The God Complex
• A Good Man Goes to War
• Let's Kill Hitler
• The Long Game
• User:Mini-mitch/Sandbox Four
• Night Terrors
• The Parting of the Ways
• The Power of Three
• Rose
• User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 9
• The Unquiet Dead
• World War Three

Sound editor

• The Age of Steel
• Army of Ghosts
• Captain Jack Harkness
• The Christmas Invasion
• Combat
• Countrycide
• Cyberwoman
• Day One
• Doomsday
• End of Days
• Everything Changes
• Fear Her
• Ghost Machine
• The Girl in the Fireplace
• Greeks Bearing Gifts
• The Idiot's Lantern
• The Impossible Planet
• Love & Monsters
• New Earth
• Out of Time
• Random Shoes
• Rise of the Cybermen
• The Satan Pit
• School Reunion
• They Keep Killing Suzie
• Tooth and Claw

Supervising sound editor

• 42
• The Almost People
• The Beast Below
• The Bells of Saint John
• Blink
• Closing Time
• Cold Blood
• Cold War
• The Crimson Horror
• Daleks in Manhattan
• The Day of the Doctor
• Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• The Doctor's Daughter
• The Doctor's Wife
• The Eleventh Hour
• The End of Time
• Evolution of the Daleks
• The Family of Blood
• The Fires of Pompeii
• Flesh and Stone
• Forest of the Dead
• The Girl Who Waited
• Gridlock
• Hide
• Human Nature
• The Hungry Earth
• Invasion of the Bane
• Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
• Journey's End
• Last of the Time Lords
• The Lazarus Experiment
• Let's Kill Hitler
• Midnight
• The Name of the Doctor
• The Next Doctor
• Night Terrors
• Nightmare in Silver
• Partners in Crime
• Planet of the Dead
• Planet of the Ood
• The Poison Sky
• The Rebel Flesh
• The Rings of Akhaten
• The Runaway Bride
• The Shakespeare Code
• Silence in the Library
• Smith and Jones
• The Snowmen
• The Sontaran Stratagem
• The Sound of Drums
• The Stolen Earth
• The Time of Angels
• The Time of the Doctor
• A Town Called Mercy
• Turn Left
• The Unicorn and the Wasp
• Utopia
• The Vampires of Venice
• Victory of the Daleks
• Vincent and the Doctor
• Voyage of the Damned
• The Waters of Mars

Sound supervisor

• Amy's Choice
• The Big Bang
• A Christmas Carol
• The Lodger
• The Pandorica Opens

External links

• Paul McFadden at the Internet Movie Database