Ralph Ayres

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Ralph B. Ayres (born June 28, 1911 in Colorado , † April 16, 1976 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film technology pioneer and special effects artist who was awarded an Oscar for technical merit at the 1952 Academy Awards .

Life

Ralph Ayres, one of Warner Bros. cinematographic pioneers , received a Technical Achievement Award at the 1952 Academy Awards , along with Fred Ponedel and George Brown , who also worked at Warner Bros. Studios, “for creating an air-powered water motor that was also suitable for currents and suction as well as whitewater during marine sequences in moving images ”(“ For an air-driven water motor to provide flow, wake and white water for marine sequences in motion pictures ”).

On the SciFi - Horror Formicula 1954, one Oscar nomination in the category "Best Special Effects" received, Ayres was involved as an employee of Warner Bros.. In 1959 he delivered the special effects for the action - drama with underwater shots secret command with James Garner . He also made a contribution to the Oscar-nominated historical crime film JD, The Killer of Budd Boetticher in 1960, as well as to the war drama Breakthrough on the orders of Samuel Fuller with Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin . On Sam Peckinpah's late-western The Wild Bunch - They Knew No Law with William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, Ayres took part in 1969. The 1972 western Dirty Little Billy marked the end of his career as a special effects specialist.

Filmography

  • 1954: Formicula (Them!)
  • 1959: Secret Command (Up Periscope)
  • 1960: JD, the Killer (The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond)
  • 1962: Breakthrough on Order (Merrill's Marauders)
  • 1964: Operation Pacific (Ensign Powder)
  • 1965: Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
    (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew From London to Paris in 25 hours and 11 Minutes)
  • 1969: The Wild Bunch (The Wild Bunch)
  • 1972: Dirty Little Billy

Award

Oscar for technical merit

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ayres on SSDI
  2. ↑ Ralph Ayres on California Death Index
  3. ↑ Both the Social Security Death Index and the California Death Index call it "Ayers". However, since the date of death to be read there is identical to that given by awardsdatabase.oscars.org, it must be one and the same person
  4. ↑ Database ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ralph Ayres at awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / awardsdatabase.oscars.org
  5. ↑ Ralph Ayres at awardsandwinners.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ayres, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ayres, Ralph B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film technology pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Colorado
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1976
Place of death Los Angeles , California