81, Los Angeles – West Hills, 27 april, kanker
Amerikaans geluidstechnicus. Drievoudig Oscarwinnaar, voor Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) en Speed (Jan de Bont, 1994). Maslow kreeg voor vier andere films een Oscarnominatie: Dune (David Lynch, 1984), Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, 1995), Twister (De Bont, 1996) en U-571 (Jonathan Mostow, 2000). Voormalig roadie van rockgroep Strawberry Alarmclock werkte aanvankelijk in de muziekindustrie, onder meer als opnametechnicus van Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. Eerste credit als re-recording mixer voor de concertfilm The Last Waltz (met The Band; Martin Scorsese, 1978). Tot de ruim 200 films waaraan hij werkte als geluidstechnicus behoren Hair (Milos Forman, 1979), The Wanderers (Philip Kaufman, 1979), Rust Never Sleeps (Neil Young, 1979), 10 (Blake Edwards, 1979), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979), Divine Madness (met Bette Midler; Michael Ritchie, 1980), Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980), The Postman Always Rings Twice (Bob Rafelson, 1981), Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981), This Is Elvis (Malcolm Leo en Andrew Salt, 1981), Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982), Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982), The Thing (Carpenter, 1982), Staying Alive (Sylvester Stallone, 1983), The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg, 1983), Christine (Carpenter, 1983), To Be or Not to Be (Alan Johnson, 1983), The Hotel New Hampshire (Tony Richardson, 1983), Stop Making Sense (met Talking Heads; Jonathan Demme, 1984), Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984), Starman (Carpenter, 1984), St. Elmo’s Fire (Joel Schumacher, 1985), 8 Million Ways to Die. (Hal Ashby, 1986), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, 1986), Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines, 1986), Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986), Angel Heart (Alan Parker, 1987), The Secret of My Success (Herbert Ross, 1987), Innerspace (Dante, 1987), Sign o’ the Times (Prince, 1987), Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987),
Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (David Zucker, 1988), Great Balls of Fire! (Jim McBride, 1989), The Package (Andrew Davis, 1989), Fat Man and Little Boy (Roland Joffé, 1989), Enemies: A Love Story (Paul Mazursky, 1989), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Steve Barron, 1990), Ghost (Jerry Zucker, 1990), Edward Scissorhands (Burton, 1990), Batman Returns (Burton, 1992), Hero (Stephen Frears, 1992), The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1993), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Mel Brooks, 1993), The Beverly Hillbillies (Penelope Spheeris, 1993), Rapa Nui (Reynolds, 1994), Junior (Ivan Reitman, 1994), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (Steve Oedekerk, 1994), The Nutty Professor (Tom Shadyac, 1996), Escape from L.A. (Carpenter, 1996), Speed 2: Cruise Control (De Bont, 1997), Mousehunt (Gore Verbinski, 1997), Mercury Rising (Harold Becker, 1998), Antz (Eric Darnell en Tim Johnson, 1998), Patch Adams (Shadyac, 1998), Mighty Joe Young (Ron Underwood, 1998), Life (Ted Demme, 1999), The General’s Daughter (Simon West, 1999), For Love of the Game (Sam Raimi, 1999), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (West, 2001), Scary Movie 2 (Keenen Ivory Wayans, 2001), The Time Machine (Simon Wells, 2002), The Scorpion King (Chuck Russell, 2002), Red Dragon (Brett Ratner, 2002), Bruce Almighty (Shadyac, 2003), Paycheck (John Woo, 2003), The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow, 2005), Just Friends (Roger Kumble, 2005), Fun with Dick and Jane (Dean Parisot, 2005), X-Men: The Last Stand (Ratner, 2006), Seraphim Falls (Dave Von Ancken, 2006), Rocky Balboa (Stallone, 2006), Evan Almighty (Shadyac, 2007), The Day the Earth Stood Still (Scott Derrickson, 2008), The Crazies (Breck Eisner, 2010), The Town (Ben Affleck, 2010), The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013), The Conjuring (James Wan, 2013), RED 2 (Parisot, 2013), Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2014), Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015), Double Play/Dubbelspel (Ernest Dickerson, 2017) en 1066 (Robin Jacob, 2023).