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Douglas Trumbull

Born April 8, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USADied February 7, 20228 films

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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.

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2001: A Space Odyssey posterFirst watch2001: A Space Odyssey19688.0Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Blade Runner poster7.9Blade Runner1982Close Encounters of the Third Kind poster7.4Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977The Tree of Life poster6.7The Tree of Life2011Star Trek: The Motion Picture poster6.5Star Trek: The Motion Picture1979The Andromeda Strain poster7.1The Andromeda Strain1971Candy poster5.1Candy1968

Filmography

8 films
  1. 2011The Tree of LifeVisual Effects
  2. 1982Blade RunnerVisual Effects
  3. 1979Star Trek: The Motion PictureVisual Effects
  4. 1977Close Encounters of the Third KindVisual Effects Supervisor
  5. 1971The Andromeda StrainVisual Effects
  6. 1968CandyVisual Effects
  7. 19682001: A Space OdysseyVisual Effects
  8. 1964To the Moon and BeyondVisual Effects