Ray Harryhausen

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

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) - Stop-Motion Animation
• The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) - Stop-Motion Animation
• It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) - Stop-Motion Animation
• The Animal World (1956) - Stop-Motion Animation [with Willis O'Brien]
• Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) - Stop-Motion Animation
• 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) - Stop-Motion Animation
• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) - Stop-Motion Animation, Associate Producer
• The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) - Stop-Motion Animation
• Mysterious Island (1961) - Stop-Motion Animation
• Jason and the Argonauts (1963) - Stop-Motion Animation, Associate Producer
• First Men in the Moon (1964) - Stop-Motion Animation, Associate Producer
• One Million Years B.C. (1966) - Stop-Motion Animation
• The Valley of Gwangi (1969) - Stop-Motion Animation, Associate Producer
• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) - Stop-Motion Animation, Producer
• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) - Stop-Motion Animation, Producer
• Clash of the Titans (1981) - Stop-Motion Animation, Producer

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