Ray Harryhausen

Ray Harryhausen Born June 29, 1920 Los Angeles, California, United States Died May 7, 2013 (aged 92) Occupation Stop-motion animator First work How to Bridge a Gorge (1942) Notable work Clash of the Titans (1981)

Ray Harryhausen was an American 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

Selected bibliography

Author

• Film Fantasy Scrapbook (1972)
• Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life (2003) [with Tony Dalton]
• Kong Unbound (2005) ["Preface"]
• The Art of Ray Harryhausen (2006) [with Tony Dalton]
• A Century of Stop Motion Animation: From Melies to Aardman (2008) [with Tony Dalton]

Gallery

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  Harryhausen with the Dragon and Cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

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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