Roy Arbogast


Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Creator and supervisor of special mechanical effects in American films since the mid-1970s. Other notable credits include JAWS (1975), JAWS 2 (1978), THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN, CAVEMAN and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (all 1981), THE THING (1982), STAR WARS: EPISODE VI - RETURN OF THE JEDI and CHRISTINE (both 1983), STARMAN (1984), ¡THREE AMIGOS! (1986), MIDNIGHT RUN (1988), NAKED GUN 2 1/2: THE SMELL OF FEAR and SHATTERED (both 1991), THE FUGITIVE (1993), VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1995), CHAIN REACTION and T2 3-D: BATTLE ACROSS TIME (both 1996), DANTE'S PEAK (1997), THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 (1999), THE ANIMAL (2001), and THE MASTER OF DISGUISE (2002).

 Nominated for Visual Effects 1977: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (w. Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein & Richard Yuricich)

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