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Richard Edlund

 
Actor: Richard Edlund
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  • Born: Dec 06, 1940
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Science Fiction
  • Career Highlights: Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Ghost
  • First Major Screen Credit: Star Wars (1977)

Biography

Innovative special effects wizard Richard Edlund was a key member of Industrial Light & Magic for George Lucas, a company that has become a Hollywood powerhouse of cutting-edge movie technology. A native of Fargo, North Dakota, he loved taking photographs as a child. While serving in the U.S. Navy, Edlund studied photography and camera repair at the U.S. Naval Photographic school. He was stationed in Japan when he became fascinated by cinema, and after his discharge, Edlund began studying film at the University of Southern California. He then spent a few years dabbling in experimental films and working for a small visual effects company. Edlund got his big break in the mid-'70s when John Dykstra hired him to be the first cameraman on the special-effects unit of a new sci-fi epic, Star Wars. For his work he received a shared Oscar. He went on to receive the same honor several more times while working on the rest of the "Star War's Trilogy" and on other George Lucas films. In 1983, Edlund founded the Boss Film Corp. and went on to work on such major films as Ghostbusters (1983), Big Top PeeWee, Die Hard (both 1988), Ghost (1990), and Alien 3 (1992). Edlund has won two special Academy Awards in Scientific/Engineering for his technical innovations that include the development of the Empire Motion Picture Camera System. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Richard Edlund, A.S.C.

Edlund at an exhibition of his photographs
Born December 6, 1940 (1940-12-06) (age 68)
Fargo, North Dakota
Occupation Special effects cinematographer

Richard Edlund, A.S.C. (born December 6, 1940) is a multi-Academy Award-winning US special effects cinematographer.

Edlund was born in Fargo, North Dakota. After first joining the Navy, he developed an interest in experimental film and attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts in the late 60s. On the strength of a couple of short films he was picked by John Dykstra to work as first cameraman at the embryonic Industrial Light & Magic on the production of the first of the Star Wars films for which he shared an Academy Award.

Edlund continued to work with Dykstra on Battlestar Galactica but was invited back by George Lucas to work on The Empire Strikes Back. Edlund's considerable technical challenge on this film was to optically composite miniatures against a white back ground resulting in a second academy award. Edlund also did distinguished work for Lucas and ILM on Raiders of the Lost Ark and Poltergeist.

Following the completion of the original Star Wars films with Return of the Jedi, Edlund set up his own effects company, Boss Films, whose credits include Ghostbusters.

Aside from film-work, Edlund also developed and manufactured the Pignose portable-style guitar amplifier (co-designed by Wayne Kimball).[1]

References

  1. ^ Pignose Amps - The Official Pignose Gorilla Website

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