Glen Robinson

This article is about the film technician Glen Robinson, on the basketball player see Glenn Robinson .

Thomas Glenn "Glen" Robinson (born September 20, 1914 in Idaho , † March 27, 2002 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American film technician who specialized in visual effects and special effects and won the Oscar twice for technical achievements ( Technical Achievement Award ) and four times the Special Achievement Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

Life

Robinson began his career as a film technician on the film The Wizard of Oz (1939) and was involved in the creation of twenty films by 1984.

Robinson was a cinematographic pioneer in the design department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) who introduced numerous developments and improvements in cinematographic technology. At the Oscars in 1952 , he received the first Oscar for technical merits "for the development of new musical wires and cable cutters". In 1960 he received another Technical Achievement Award with EL Stones , Winfield Hubbard and Luther Newman "for the design of a multi-wire, remote-controlled winch ".

In the 1970s he was mainly concerned with visual effects and received his first Special Achievement Award with Frank Brendel and Albert Whitlock for earthquakes (1974) at the 1975 Oscars . He received three other Special Achievement Awards in 1976 with Whitlock for Die Hindenburg and most recently at the 1977 Academy Awards with LB Abbott and Matthew Yuricich for Escape into the 23rd Century (1976) and with Carlo Rambaldi and Frank Van der Veer for King Kong (1976 ).

Other well-known films that Glen Robinson, whose son Raymond Robinson also worked as a special effects film technician, helped to make, were Battle of Britain (1969) and Flash Gordon (1980).

Glen Robinson met the young Allen Hall in 1973 , a later Oscar winner for his own special effects, and got him a first job in the film production of Die Hindenburg .

Web links

• Glen Robinson at the Internet Movie Database (English)