Roy Seawright
Roy W. Seawright ( born November 19, 1905 in Los Angeles County, California, † April 30, 1991 in Torrance, California ) was an American special effects artist, who from 1940 to 1942 three times best for the Academy Award for special effects, meanwhile, was nominated Best Visual Effects.
Life
His father was a chief architect of Hal Roach's Culver City studios. He died in 1919 during an accident during the construction of the complex. Roy Seawright began in 1920 in said studio as an errand boy, later working in the property management. In 1927 he became head of the Animation Department Roach. His animations have been shown in many Riach studio short films, in the movie Revenge is sweet from the year 1934, he recorded, for example, a stop-motion animation sequence, in which he was marching toy soldiers.
In 1937 he worked as head of the litigation department for the film Topper goes on tour, for which he was nominated for the 1940 Academy Award for Best Special Effects. In 1940 he was responsible for the photographic effects in the film Tumak, the lord of the jungle. For the film he animated dinosaurs that were used in many other films of the Hal Roach Studios. For this film and the sequel of Topper 's Big Adventure, Topper 2 - The Haunted Manor he was two more times for an Oscar nomination.
During the Second World War, he was a major in the United States Army Air Forces. From their film production company First Motion Picture Unit, he was commissioned to produce special effects for military training films. He left Hal Roach after returning from the army and then worked for Eagle -Lion Films. In the 1950s, archive recordings were used by Seawrights dinosaur animations in movies like Jungle Manhunt, Teenage Cave Man and Ghost Diver. He died in 1991 at the age of 85 years.