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|caption =Ray Harryhausen with the dragon and cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | |caption =Ray Harryhausen with the dragon and cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | ||
|occupation =Stop- | |occupation =Stop-Motion animator | ||
|birthday =June 29, 1920 | |birthday =June 29, 1920 | ||
|birthplace =Los Angeles, California, [[United States]] | |birthplace =Los Angeles, California, [[United States]] | ||
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Ray Harryhausen was an American-British stop-motion animator and producer. The chief protégé of Willis O'Brien, the animator of The Lost World and King Kong, Harryhausen made his feature film debut as the "first technician" of Mighty Joe Young in 1949. From there, he built a reputation as one of the country's best special effects artists, bringing to life prehistoric, mythological, and science-fiction monsters. His final film was 1981's Clash of the Titans.
Selected filmography
- Mighty Joe Young (1949) - First technician
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) - Visual effects
- King Kong (1966) - Stop-motion technician [with Jim Danforth and David Allen; unproduced]
Actor
- Mighty Joe Young (1998) as man at party
Trivia
- A G-Team officer named Harryhausen played by Shauna Rappold appears in the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
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