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Douglas Trumbull

Visual EffectsApril 8, 1942(died age 79)Los Angeles, California, USA

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Douglas Huntley Trumbull (April 8, 1942, Los Angeles- 7th February 2022 ) is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor. He contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Blade Runner, and directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm. Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas Trumbull licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography (23)

The Alien Perspective

Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey

In Search of Tomorrow

2022·Self - Interviewee

The Blade Runner Phenomenon

2021·Self - Visual Effects Supervisor (1982)

Other Credits (17)

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot

2019·Executive Producer

The Tree of Life

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind

2020·Self

Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future

The Real History of Science Fiction

Jodorowsky's Dune

2013·Self - V/FX Artist (archive footage)

Exploring 'The Tree of Life'

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork

The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film

Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now

'Silent Running' By Director Douglas Trumbull

2001: The Making of a Myth

2001·Self (as Doug Trumbull)

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

2001 and Beyond

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

1979·Self - In new expanded version

The Making of Silent Running

·Visual Effects

In Search of the Obelisk

1982·Visual Effects

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1979·Visual Effects

Night of Dreams

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977·Visual Effects Director

1973·Executive Producer

The Andromeda Strain

1971·Visual Effects

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968·Visual Effects

1968·Visual Effects

To the Moon and Beyond

1964·Visual Effects