Raymond Frederick Harryhausen was an American artist, designer, visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation".
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| US Army Signal Corps |
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| 1920/06/29 | Raymond Frederick Harryhausen is born in Los Angeles, CA. | Born | |||||
| 1933/04/00 | In the forecourt of Grauman's, Ray Harryhausen admires the 15 ft 'big head bust'. Ray will be inspired to create stop-motion animation by watching "King Kong". His aunt, who worked for Sid Grauman's invalid mother, had been provided 3 tickets by Sid. | Audience Member | King Kong (film) | Graumann's Chinese Theatre | Los Angeles | ||
| 1949/00/00 | "Mighty Joe Young" is released. The a box office hit and earned an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. | First Technician | |||||
| 1953/00/00 | "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" is released. A four-legged dinosaur (a fictitious species called a Rhedosaurs) awakens from Arctic hibernation by nuclear tests runs amok in New York City, the picture was a massive success for Warner Bros. | Visual Effects | |||||
| 1955/00/00 | "It Came from Beneath the Sea" is released by Columbia. Harryhausen creates a colossus octopus that terrorizes San Francisco. Sam Katzman, the film's producer, only budgeted enough money to animate 6 of the octopi's arms. Harryhausen called it "hextapus." | Visual Effects | |||||
| 1956/00/00 | In the "Earth vs the Flying Saucers", Harryhausen unleashes a fleet of deadly UFOs on Washington DC. | Special Photographic, Animation Effects | |||||
| 1956/00/00 | "The Animal World" is released. | Effects Technician, Documentary | |||||
| 1957/00/00 | "20 Million Miles to Earth" is released. Harryhausen's lizard-like alien from Venus wreaks havoc in the streets of Rome before heading to the Coliseum. | Visual Effects | |||||
| 1958/12/23 | "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" is released. Academy Award wining Visual Effects include a fire-breathing dragon, the two-headed monster bird known as the Roc, a snake woman (inspired by a belly dancer he saw in Beirut) and a Cyclops. | Associate Producer, Visual Effects | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | ||||
| 1960/00/00 | Ray Harryhausen earns a four-year contract with Columbia to produce epic fantasies. | Work | |||||
| 1960/00/00 | "The 3 Worlds of Gulliver" is released. | Visual Effects | |||||
| 1961/00/00 | In the film, "Mysterious Island", Harryhausen releases a massive crab, an industrious honey bee, a giant mollusk and a prehistoric bird. | Special Visual Effects | |||||
| 1963/00/00 | "Jason and the Argonauts" is released featuring a seven-headed serpent the Hydra and Talos, a giant bronze statute that comes to life and a motley crew of skeletons that rise from the ground to battle with Jason in a sword fight. | Associate Producer, Visual Effects | |||||
| 1964/00/00 | "First Men in the Moon" is released. | Associate Producer, Visual Effects | |||||
| 1966/00/00 | "One Million Years BC" is released, starring Raquel Welch in a fur bikini. | Special Visual Effects | |||||
| 1969/00/00 | "The Valley of Gwangi" is released. Storyboarded by Willis O'Brien, "The Valley of Gwangi" is about a dinosaur discovered in Mexico during the early years of the 20th century. | Associate Producer, Visual Effects | |||||
| 1973/00/00 | "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" is released, featuring a club-wielding centaur, a tiny demon created from the blood of the villain and a seven-armed, sword-wielding statue of the Hindu goddess Kali. | Producer, Visual Effects | |||||
| 1977/00/00 | "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" is released. Bring to life a monstrous cast including a giant walrus, a huge wasp and a cave-dwelling troglodyte that battles a saber-toothed tiger. | Producer, Visual Effects | |||||
| 1981/00/00 | "Clash of the Titans" stars Burgess Meredith, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress, Claire Bloom and Laurence Olivier as Zeus. Harryhausen's creatures include the winged horse Pegasus, a snake-headed Medusa and a Kraken. | Producer, Visual Effects | |||||
| 2002/00/00 | Several filmmakers collaborate to help Harryhausen finish "The Story of the Tortoise and the Hare," the 5th and final of his fairy tales, originally begun in 1952. The film won a 2003 Annie Award. | Producer, Visual Effects | |||||
| 2006/00/00 | Legend Films and Ray Harryhausen colorize director Meriam C Cooper's "She" (1935). The colorized trailer premiered at the 2006 Comic-Con. | Color | |||||
| 2013/00/00 | Ray Harryhausen dies in London, England. | Died |
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| The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Associate Producer, Visual Effects | Film | 1958/12/23 |
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