Robert Blalack

Robert "Robbie" Blalack (born December 9, 1948 in the Panama Canal Zone , Panama ) is an Oscar- winning film technician who specializes in visual effects .

Life

After graduating from St Paul's School Blalack soon was working on the first Star Wars film Star Wars , for which he, along with John Stears , John Dykstra , Richard Edlund and Grant McCune the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects received, which has remained his greatest success so far. His last job in the movie business was directing Akbar's Adventure Tours in 1998, an adventure comedy starring Martin Short and Eugene Levy .

Filmography (selection)

Visual effects:

• 1975: American Killer (One by One)
• 1977: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Star Wars)
• 1979: Meteor
• 1980: Blues Brothers (The Blues Brothers)
• 1980: The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Plane (Airplane!)
• 1980: Our Cosmos (Cosmos) (12 episodes)
• 1980: The Hell Trip (Altered States)
• 1981: Heart squeak (Heartbeeps)
• 1981: Wolfen
• 1982: Cat People (Cat People)
• 1982: The great magic (The Escape Artist)
• 1982: The guy with the crazy look (Zapped!)
• 1983: Xin shu shan jian ke
• 1983: Great White Shark 3-D (Jaws 3-D)
• 1983: Get Crazy
• 1983: The Day After - The Day After (The Day After)
• 1983: To be or not (To Be or Not to Be)
• 1985: The Last Dragon (The Last Dragon)
• 1987: The Time Trap (Timestalkers)
• 1987: RoboCop
• 1992: Freejack - Hostage of the Future (Freejack)
• 1992: Fortress - The Fortress (Fortress)
• 1994: Death and the Maiden (Death and the Maiden)

Director:

• 1998: Akbar's Adventure Tours

Awards

• 1978: Oscar : Best Visual Effects Award for Star Wars

Web links

• Robert Blalack in the Internet Movie Database (English)