Thomas Small Thomas W . Small was an American artist who had worked on four of the " Star Trek " feature films . He was an assistant sound editor on , after which he supervised the foley editing on , , and . Small was born in Bathesda , Maryland . His career began in the late 1980s when he worked as an assistant sound editor on the action film " Blind Fury " ( starring Terry O ' Quinn and Noble Willingham , with Meg Foster and Charles Cooper ) . In 1989 , he began working at Buena Vista Sound , where he assisted in the sound editing of such films as the box office hit " Pretty Woman " ( featuring Jason Alexander and Dey Young ) . By 1991 , Small joined the sound department at Paramount Pictures . He continued serving as an assistant sound editor at first , with his early credits including " The Addams Family " and its 1993 sequel , " Addams Family Values " ( both featuring Christopher Lloyd and Carel Struycken ) , the 1992 comedy " Wayne ' s World " , and the 1994 action thriller " Clear and Present Danger " ( featuring Harris Yulin , Raymond Cruz , Ellen Geer , Reg E . Cathey , Vaughn Armstrong , John Putch , Michael Jace , Cameron Thor , Harley Venton , and Elizabeth Dennehy ) . After " Star Trek Generations " , Paramount promoted Small from assistant sound editor to foley editor . In this position , he worked on such films as " Tommy Boy " ( featuring Zach Grenier and Julie Warner ) , " Virtuosity " ( featuring Louise Fletcher ) , " Primal Fear " ( featuring Alfre Woodard , Terry O ' Quinn , Tony Plana , Kenneth Tigar , and Christopher Carroll ) , and " The Phantom " ( featuring Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa , Bill Smitrovich , Samantha Eggar , and Leon Russom ) . He was then promoted to supervising sound editor , and was first credited as such in 1996 ' s " Harriet the Spy " ( featuring Robert Joy ) . Small has supervised the foley editing for numerous Paramount hits over the past 14 years . Among these are " Mission : Impossible II " ( co - written by Brannon Braga and Ronald D . Moore , photographed by Jeffrey L . Kimball ) and " Mission : Impossible III " ( directed by J . J . Abrams and co - written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci ) , " Four Brothers " ( featuring Fionnula Flanagan ) , " The Italian Job " ( featuring Boris Lee Krutonog ) , " The Sum of All Fears " ( starring James Cromwell and Bruce McGill ) , " Lara Croft : Tomb Raider " ( executive produced by Stuart Baird and edited by Dallas Puett ) , " Face / Off " ( featuring Harve Presnell and John Carroll Lynch ) , and the Academy Award - winning megahit " Titanic " ( co - starring David Warner ) . In 2007 , Small started doing foley editing for Walt Disney films in addition to his work with Paramount . His work for Disney included " Pirates of the Caribbean : At World ' s End " , " G - Force " , and " Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time " . He had also done foley work on films for other studios , such as " American Wedding " for Universal Pictures and " Sex and the City " for New Line Cinema . Small had been nominated for eight Golden Reel Awards by his guild , Motion Picture Sound Editors . He received his first nomination , and only win , for his work on " Titanic " . He shared the award with fellow " Star Trek " foley editors Scott Curtis and Tammy Fearing . Small was nominated for Tim Burton ' s " Sleepy Hollow " , the aforementioned " Mission : Impossible II " ( both of which were also shared with Curtis and Fearing ) , " Lara Croft : Tomb Raider " , " The Italian Job " , " Team America : World Police " , " Mission : Impossible III " , and " Pirates of the Caribbean : At World ' s End " . Small died on Thanksgiving Day , November 27 , 2014 , of cancer at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center .