Donald Edmund Trumbull (May 27, 1909 – June 7, 2004) was an American pioneer in the field of
motion picture special effects
Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual wo ...
.
Life
Trumbull was born in
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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. He was the father of
Douglas Trumbull
Douglas Hunt Trumbull (; April 8, 1942 – February 7, 2022) was an American film director and innovative visual effects supervisor. He pioneered methods in special effects and created scenes for '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'', ''Close Encounters ...
, with whom he worked on several of these film projects.
Trumbull died of natural causes at the age of 95 at his daughter's home in
Graeagle, California.
Films worked on
* ''
The Wizard of Oz'' (1939)
* ''
Silent Running'' (1972)
* ''
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' is a 1977 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It tells the story ...
'' (1977)
* ''
Spaceballs'' (1987)
External links
*
Obituary of Donald Trumbull''(
Los Angeles Times
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Variety Obituary
1909 births
2004 deaths
People from Chicago
Special effects people
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