Ray Harryhausen

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Ray Harryhausen

Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen (born June 29, 1920 in Los Angeles ; † May 7, 2013 in London ) was an American animation technician who, through the use of stop-motion in films such as Sindbad's 7th Journey and Jason and the Argonauts became known. He has also worked as a producer on many of his films .

Act

Harryhausen developed the stop-motion technique of his teacher Willis O'Brien to perfection. For a long time, stop-motion pioneered special effects in film . Harryhausen brought numerous mythical creatures , dinosaurs and ghosts to life on the canvas. The scenes from the Sindbad films and the fighting sequences from Jason and the Argonauts became world famous .

With the development of new animation techniques since the late 1970s - initially through go-motion technology and later in particular through the possibilities of computer animation  - stop-motion has lost its importance as an animation technique in feature films. Nevertheless, director Peter Jackson still referred to the Harryhausen films for the special effects for his film trilogy The Lord of the Rings .

Ray Harryhausen lived with his wife in London until his death.

Awards and honors

In the course of his career, Harryhausen was nominated several times for the Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films and honored with several awards. In 1975 he received the Golden Scroll for his work on Sinbad's Dangerous Adventures . In 1982 he was awarded the Life Career Award, a decade later he received the Special Award. In 2006 he was honored again for his life's work and received the George Pal Memorial Award.

At the presentation of the Annie Award , he was awarded the Winsor McCay Award in 1991 , and in 2003 he won an Annie Award.

In 1992 he received an honorary Oscar for his life's work , the Gordon E. Sawyer Award . In 2003 Hollywood honored him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . In Germany, Harryhausen's life's work is at the center of the permanent exhibition “Artificial Worlds” designed by Rolf Giesen at the Berlin Film Museum .

In the computer animation film Die Monster AG from 2001, a popular restaurant is called "Harry Hausen", which is intended to commemorate the pioneer of animation technology.

In the course of receiving the Empire Award in 2004, Harryhausen received the Empire Inspiration Award for his work.

In 2005 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

In 2006 he was awarded Festival Honors at the eDIT Filmmaker's Festival in Frankfurt am Main.

In 2008 he received the Karl Edward Wagner Award .

The 2001 animated film Die Monster AG features a Japanese sushi restaurant called Harryhausen's , which obviously pays homage to animation technician Ray Harryhausen.

Filmography (selection)

Fonts (selection)

Illustrated books

  • together with Tony Dalton: The Art of Ray Harryhausen. Billboard Books, 2006, ISBN 0-8230-8400-0 .
  • together with Tony Dalton: Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life. Billboard Books, 2004, ISBN 0-8230-8402-7 .

Cooperation

  • Ray Bradbury : Dinosaur Stories. (Dinosaur Tales, 1983), Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 1985, (Harryhausen as author of the foreword).
  • Piccolo Puppet Shows (Ed.): ... and stretch a string from the heart to the mind. Bonn 2003, (Festschrift for the 20th stage anniversary of the puppeteer Gerd J. Pohl with a contribution by Harryhausen).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen's career - in pictures at guardian.co.uk, accessed on May 7, 2013
  2. ^ Harryhausen science fiction awards database - Ray Harryhausen . Retrieved November 21, 2017.
  3. ↑ Bibliography of German Science Fiction Stories and Books - Authors with "B" ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chpr.at
personal data
SURNAME Harryhausen, Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harryhausen, Raymond Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American animation technician and animator
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2013
Place of death London , UK