Gene Warren

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Gene Warren (* 12. August 1916 in Boulder (Colorado) , United States ; † 17th July 1997 in Los Angeles ) was an American special effects -Designer short film producer , short film director and Oscar winner .

Live and act

Warren began working as an illustrator in various short Hollywood films immediately after World War II . Ten years later, in 1956, he switched to the special effects sector and focused his work on the genres of fantasy and science fiction film. The director George Pal , for whom he worked again as a draftsman for Little Thumble in 1957 , brought Warren together with his colleague Tim Baar to design the extensive special effects for the H.G. Wells film adaptation The Time Machine . Both work was rewarded with an Oscar in 1961. Warren and Baar also worked together as a team on the genre classics The Ruler of Cornwall , Murderersaurs and The Wonder World of the Brothers Grimm , which followed in quick succession at the beginning of the 1960s , while the Pal productions Atlantis, the Lost Continent and The Six Suspects were other colleagues Warren's partner.

In later years, Gene Warren rarely appeared as a designer of special effects, but concentrated entirely on running his company, Excelsior Productions, which specializes in these things. He also temporarily headed two other production companies. As a producer and director, he recorded also responsible for a number of short films, including The Tool Box, Suzy Snowflake, Santa and the Three Dwarfs and Land of the Midnight Sun . Gene Warren was also responsible for the production of short educational films, which had such bland titles as Mariner I, Mariner III and Apollo (prescribed by the US Navy) .

Filmography

Special effects and visual effects:

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1991, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1991, p. 335

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personal data
SURNAME Warren, Gene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American special effects artist, short film director and producer, and film company manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulder, Colorado , United States
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1997
Place of death los Angeles