Bill Warrington
Bill Warrington (also known as W. Warrington ) ( 1910 - September 11, 1981 ) was a British special effects artist who won an Oscar in the category "Best Visual and Acoustic Effects" in 1962 for his work on the film The Guns of Navarone was awarded.
Life
Bill Warrington started his career in 1932 with Alfred Hitchcock film number seventeen . In the monumental film Caesar and Cleopatra , in which Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh played the leading roles, he was responsible for the special effects in 1944. He was also involved in the literary film adaptation of Carol Reed's Outcast , which was named Best British Film of the Year in 1948. This was followed in 1949 by working on Haus der Sehnsucht , a social drama by Edward Dmytryk . In 1952, the Oscar-nominated comedy film The Irresistible with Alec Guinness was on his program. He worked with Guinness again in the war film Malta Story the following year. He was also involved in the 1956 British film about the German ironclad Admiral Graf Spee Panzerschiff Graf Spee . In 1958 he was responsible for the special effects in the film about the sinking of the luxury liner RMS Titanic , which sank after a collision with an iceberg in 1912. He took up this challenge again in the war film The Bismarck's Last Voyage over the German battleship Bismarck .
In 1962 he and Chris Greenham won an Oscar in the category "Best Visual Effects" or "Best Acoustic Effects" for his participation in the war film The Guns of Navarone with Gregory Peck , David Niven and Anthony Quinn in the lead roles.
With the adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark by Steven Spielberg , he said goodbye to film in 1981. The special effects equipment was there in his hands.
Filmography (selection)
- 1932: Number Seventeen ( Number Seventeen )
- 1945: Caesar and Cleopatra
- 1947: Launched ( Odd Man Out )
- 1949: House of Sehnsucht ( Give Us This Day )
- 1950: Paris at midnight ( So Long at the Fair )
- 1950: That's Life ( Trio )
- 1950: On the wrong track ( The Clouded Yellow )
- 1951: Night without Stars ( Night Without Stars )
- 1952: The Irresistible ( The Card )
- 1952: White Woman in the Jungle ( The Planter's Wife )
- 1953: Malta Story
- 1954: Flames over the Far East ( The Purple Plain )
- 1956: Against All Violence ( Reach for the Sky )
- 1956: Panzerschiff Graf Spee ( The Battle of the River Plate )
- 1957: The Prince and the Showgirl ( The Prince and the Showgirl )
- 1957: Enemies out of nowhere ( Quatermass 2 )
- 1958: A Night to Remember ( A Night To Remember )
- 1959: The Revenge of the Pharaohs ( The Mummy )
- 1960: The last voyage of the Bismarck ( Sink the Bismarck! )
- 1961: The Guns of Navarone ( The Guns of Navarone )
- 1965: Genghis Khan ( Genghis Khan )
- 1965: Password "Heavy Water" ( The Heroes of Telemark )
- 1967: The Green Blood of Demons ( Quatermass and the Pit )
- 1969: The Death Rider ( The Desperados )
- 1970: Cromwell - War to the King ( Cromwell )
- 1974: gold
- 1979: Danger UXB (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark ( Raiders of the Lost Ark )
Awards
- 1962: Awarded an Oscar for The Guns of Navarone
Web links
- Bill Warrington in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bill Warrington at kinotv.com
- ↑ The 34th Academy Awards 1962 at oscars.org (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Warrington, Bill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Warrington, W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British special effects artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1910 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1981 |