Who is Willis O'Brien?
He was born in March 2, 1886 and died November 8, 1962. He was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood "was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World (1925), King Kong (1933) and Mighty Joe Young (1949), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
What was he famous for?
Willis O'Brien was the special effects artist who pioneered the technique of stop motion animation and the man behind the 1933 movie classic King Kong. A former newspaper cartoonist and sculptor, O'Brien began making short films in 1914. His animated dinosaurs for the film version of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World in 1925 and his work on King Kong are considered classic examples of stop-motion photography.
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