Thomas Causey, a veteran sound mixer who earned Oscar nominations for Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy and worked on four Star Trek films, TV’s Dallas and dozens of other movies and series, died Sunday in Cathedral City, CA. He was 76.

His daughter-in-law Crystal Causey confirmed the news to Deadline.

Born on December 5, 1949, in New Orleans, Causey’s career in sound spanned more than 40 years, working with such top-name directors as Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Soderbergh, Garry Marshall, Terry Gilliam, John Carpenter, Jim Abrahams, Albert Brooksand James L. Brooks.

Sometimes credited as Tom Causey, he already had a handful of sound-department credits when he served as a sound mixer on Carpenter’s landmark 1978 horror pic Halloween, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. That year he also worked as a production mixer on several episodes of CBS’ Dallas and NBC’s Police Story.

By the early 1980s, he would focus mainly on feature films, working as a sound mixer on such popular films that decade as Escape from New York, The Thing, Halloween II, Big Trouble in Little China, Broadcast News and The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

He was part of the team that shared Best Sound Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Dick Tracy, the comic strip-based 1990 pic with a colorful look and cast that included Beatty, Madonna and Al Pacino. The following year, Causey earned a Primetime Emmy nom alongside three other member of the sound team for the NBC telefilm Fire on the Mountain, starring Buddy Ebsen and Ron Howard.

Causey then worked steadily throughout the 1990s and 2000s on movies including Defending Your Life, the Hot Shots! films, Lethal Weapon 3, Hoffa, Escape from L.A., The General’s Daughter, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves! and Beatty’s Bulworth. He was a sound mixer on 1994’s Star Trek: Generations, starting a four-film Trek run with the Next Generation cast through 2002 that included Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis.

As the millennium turned, Causey served as production sound mixer on Soderbergh’s Best Picture Oscar-nominated Erin Brockovich, for which Julia Roberts would win her lone Oscar. Other 2000s credits included Big Momma’s House, Jurassic Park III, Anger Management, Raising Helen, The Longest Yard, REign Over Me and You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. Causey’s final credit was as sound mixer on Adam Shankman’s 2008’s Bedtime Stories — one of nine films he worked on starring and/or produced by Adam Sandler.