What is the birthdate of this American film maker and entrepreneur, who was helped by Dennis Muren in 1976 to create the effects for "Star Wars"?
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Ken Ralston Kenneth "Ken" Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his career at the seminal commercial animation and visual effects company, Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s. In 1976, he was hired at Industrial Light & Magic by Dennis Muren to help George Lucas create the effects for "Star Wars". He remained in ILM for 20 years before joining Sony Pictures Imageworks as president. Ralston is best known for his work in the films of Robert Zemeckis.
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George Lucas George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.
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Jan Hammer Jan Hammer (] ) (born 17 April 1948) is a Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s program, "Miami Vice". He has continued to work as both a musical performer and producer, expanding to producing film later in his career.
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Rick Baker Richard A. "Rick" Baker (born December 8, 1950) is an American special make-up effects creator, make-up artist, and special effects supervisor, mostly known for his creature effects; he was also a creature designer. Baker won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling a record seven times from a record eleven nominations, starting in 1981 when he won the inaugural award for "An American Werewolf in London".
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Martin Bower Martin Bower (born 1952) is a model maker and designer of special effects miniatures for both film and television. His credits include the television series "" (1975-8) and the films "Alien" (1979), "Flash Gordon" (1980) and "Outland" (1981). He has a long-standing professional relationship with special effects director Brian Johnson.
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John Frankenheimer John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Seven Days in May" (1964), "The Train" (1964), "Seconds" (1966), "Grand Prix" (1966), "French Connection II" (1975), "Black Sunday" (1977), and "Ronin" (1998).
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John Dods John Bruce Dods (born December 1948 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is a filmmaker, make-up artist and specialist in prosthetic make-up effects for movies and the stage. He may be best known for designing and creating the facial appliances for the stage productions of Disney’s "Beauty and the Beast".
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Alan Purwin Alan David Purwin (August 28, 1961 – September 11, 2015) was an American helicopter pilot, aerial film operator, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Purwin founded and owned Helinet Aviation. Purwin contributed to the aerial cinematography industry and aided in the filming of hundreds of Hollywood movies such as "Pearl Harbor", "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series and the "Transformers" film series.
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Jamie Hyneman James Franklin Hyneman (born September 25, 1956) is an American special effects expert who is best known as the co-host of the television series "MythBusters" alongside Adam Savage. He is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where "MythBusters" was filmed. He is known among "Robot Wars" devotees for his robot entry, Blendo, which, for a time, was deemed too dangerous for entry in the competition. He is one of the designers of the aerial robotic camera system Wavecam, used in sports and entertainment events.
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Wendell &quot;Bud&quot; Hurlbut Wendell "Bud" Hurlbut (1918–2011) was a designer, builder, entrepreneur, and one of the first creators of theme parks in the United States.
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Douglas Trumbull Douglas Huntley Trumbull ( ; born April 8, 1942) is an American film director and special effects supervisor. He contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of "", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "", "Blade Runner" and "The Tree of Life", and directed the movies "Silent Running" and "Brainstorm".
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Sean Mullin Sean Mullin (born January 13, 1975), is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer.
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Drew Struzan Drew Struzan (born May 14, 1947) is an American artist known for his more than 150 movie posters, which include all the films in the "Indiana Jones", "Back to the Future", and "Star Wars" film series. He has also painted album covers, collectibles, and book covers.
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Roger Corman Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American independent film producer, director, screenwriter, entertainment businessman, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Admired by members of the French New Wave and "Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a long-time member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award.
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Roman Kroitor Roman Kroitor (December 12, 1926 – September 17, 2012) was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as an early practitioner of Cinéma vérité, as co-founder of IMAX, and as creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic animation system. He was also the original inspiration for the Force, popularized in the "Star Wars" series.
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Derek Estlin Purvis Derek Estlin Purvis (born November 27, 1972) is an American film director, producer, executive producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. He has financed, produced or directed 13 films of various genres. He is a founder and creator of the Application Movie Pitch Pro.
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Jim Henson James Maury "Jim" Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker who achieved international fame as the creator of the Muppets. Born in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in Leland, Mississippi, and Hyattsville, Maryland, Henson began developing puppets while attending high school. While he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, he created "Sam and Friends", a five-minute sketch-comedy puppet show that appeared on television. After graduating from the University of Maryland with a degree in home economics, he produced coffee advertisements and developed some experimental films. Henson founded Muppets Inc. in 1958 (which would later become the Jim Henson Company).
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The Making of Star Wars The Making of Star Wars is a television special produced by 20th Century Fox, which aired on the ABC Television Network on September 16, 1977. It was written by Richard Schickel and directed and produced by Robert Guenette.
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Tad Stones Tad Stones (born 1952, Burbank, California) is an American animator, screenwriter, producer and director best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company, where he worked from 1974 to 2003. His most notable credits for Disney include creating, writing and producing the animated series "Darkwing Duck" and producing "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers", "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears", "Aladdin" and "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command". His latest project is as a storyboard artist on the animated series "Bob's Burgers", which premiered in January 2011 on Fox.
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Ted Field Frederick Woodruff "Ted" Field (born June 1, 1953) is an American media mogul, entrepreneur and film producer.
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Travis Kalanick Travis Cordell Kalanick ( ; born August 6, 1976) is an American businessman.
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Jim Long Jim Long (born Timothy John Moynihan, February 7, 1943, Worcester, Massachusetts) is an Irish-American entrepreneur, whose pioneering marketing concepts and creative “firsts” are iconic in the broadcast music industry.