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Brian Johncock (born 29 June 1939) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. He changed his surname to Johnson during the 1960s. Joining the team of special effects artist Les Bowie, Johnson started his career behind the scenes for Bowie Films on productions such as On the Buses, and for Hammer Films. He is known for his special effects work on TV series including Thunderbirds (1965–66) and films including Alien (1979), for which he received the 1980 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (shared with H. R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Ayling and Nick Allder). Previously, he had built miniature spacecraft models for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Johnson's work on Space: 1999 influenced the effects of the Star Wars films of the 1970s and 1980s. Impressed by his work, George Lucas visited Johnson during the production of the TV series to offer him the role of effects supervisor for the 1977 film. Having already been commissioned for the second series of Space: 1999, Johnson was unable to accept at the time. He worked on the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), whose special effects were recognised in the form of a 1981 Special Achievement Academy Award (which Johnson shared with Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Bruce Nicholson).
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1939-06-29
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- info Birth Place Surrey, England, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Brian Johnson
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2001: The Making of a Myth
2001-01-13
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2001: Creating Kubrick’s Space Odyssey
2024-07-23
4.9
Family Vanished
2018-07-06
6.9
The Alien Legacy
1999-06-01
7.3
Filmed in Supermarionation
2014-10-11
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Century 21 Slough
2018-07-04
8.3
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003-12-02
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The Eagle Obsession
8.6
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
1980-09-22
7.7
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-10-06
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968-04-02
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Alien
1979-05-25
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Aliens
1986-07-18
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The Empire Strikes Back
1980-05-20
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Space Truckers
1996-10-04
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978-01-08
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Slipstream
1989-06-22
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Into Infinity
1975-12-09
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Spies Like Us
1985-12-06
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Moon Zero Two
1969-10-26
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
1970-10-25
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The NeverEnding Story
1984-04-06
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Taste the Blood of Dracula
1970-05-07
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Alien Attack
1980-09-04
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Journey Through the Black Sun
1982-09-13
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The Glitterball
1977-04-22
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Captain Clegg
1962-06-13
7.7
Their Finest Hour
1991-01-01
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Caged Fury
1990-03-01
7.7
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
1994-11-29
7.7
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961-11-01
7.7
Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary Double Bill - Trapped in the Sky / Terror in New York City
2025-09-19
7.7
The Crawling Eye
1958-07-07
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Quatermass 2
1957-06-17
7.7
Countdown to Disaster
1982-01-01
7.7
Prisoners in Space
2025-09-01
7.7
Alien
1979-05-25
7.7
Slipstream
1989-06-22
7.7
Space Truckers
1996-10-04
7.7
Quatermass and the Pit
1967-11-09
7.7
The Phantom of the Opera
1962-06-25
7.7
The Kiss of the Vampire
1963-09-11
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First Men in the Moon
1964-08-06
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The Medusa Touch
1978-04-13
7.7
Dragonslayer
1981-06-26
7.7
The Pirates of Penzance
1983-02-18
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Space: 1999
1975-09-04
7.7
Thunderbirds
1965-09-30