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Born in El Paso, TX. Visual effects supervisor at ILM who entered American film with TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991). Other notable credits include HOOK (also 1991), JURASSIC PARK (1993), CASPER (1995), THE TRIGGER EFFECT and TWISTER (both 1996), SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL (1997), SMALL SOLDIERS and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (both 1998), GALAXY QUEST (1999, also 2nd unit director), THE PERFECT STORM (2000), AIZEA: CITY OF THE WIND (2001), THE BOURNE IDENTITY and SIGNS (both 2002), DREAMCATCHER and MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (both 2003), LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (2004), and ARE WE THERE YET? (2005). Fangmeier directed the 2006 feature ERAGON.  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 1996: TWISTER (w. John Frazier, Habib Zargarpour & Henry La Bounta)  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 2000: THE PERFECT STORM (w. John Frazier, Habib Zargarpour & Walt Conti)  Nominated for Visual Effects 2003: MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (w. Daniel Sudick, Nathan McGuinness and Robert Stromberg) 3 nominations