Fred Knoth
Fred Knoth ( born September 12, 1907 † 21 January 1976) was an American film special effects technicians and visual effects, which was honored at the Oscar ceremony in 1955 with the Academy Technical Achievement Award, the Oscar for technical merit.
Life
Knoth began his career in the film industry in Hollywood in 1938 as a specialist in visual effects for the Laurel and Hardy film created and directed by John G. Blystone and Hal Roach As a salon Tyrolean ( Swiss Miss ), where he was responsible for the construction of miniature models. In the following years he worked until 1968 as a specialist for special and visual effects on the production of sixteen films.
During this time, Knoth was employed in the film art department of Universal Studios and was awarded jointly with Orien Ernest at the Oscar ceremony in 1955 with the Oscar for technical merit ( Technical Achievement Award), namely " the development of a portable electric drying oil mist machine" (, for the development of a hand- portable, electric, dry oil -fog machine ' ).
Well-known films, the production of which he was involved, were Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 1948) by Charles Barton with Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and Lon Chaney Jr., The Incredible Mister C. ( The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957) by Jack Arnold with Grant Williams, Randy Stuart and April Kent, The flight to Hell ( The Land Unknown, 1957) by Virgil W. Vogel with Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson and William Reynolds and Hellfighters ( Hellfighters, 1968) Andrew V. McLaglen of John Wayne, Katharine Ross and Jim Hutton