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Chris Walas
Visual Effects
17 Sept 1955 (70 years)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Chris Walas is an American film director, special effects expert, and make-up artist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Walas rose to fame in the 1980s, with effects for films such as "Airplane!" (1980), "Dragonslayer" (1981), and "Return of the Jedi" (1983). In the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), Walas created the effects for a scene where the Nazi villains' faces melt from the intense heat generated by the Ark of the Covenant. In 1984, Walas was credited for the design of the gremlins ...
Also Known As
Christopher James Walas
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Chris Walas's Movies
55%
DeepStar Six
13 Jan 1989
72%
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
18 Nov 2015
75%
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
14 Sept 2019
80%
Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
04 Oct 2005
52%
The Scanners Way: Creating the Special Effects in 'Scanners'
15 Jul 2014
52%
Long Live the King
01 Oct 2016
70%
From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures
30 Sept 2014
0%
The Brundle Museum of Natural History
01 Jan 2005
0%
Made You Look
0%
Charlie Gemora: Uncredited
15 Apr 2016
0%
Gremlins: A Puppet Story
17 Jul 2020
0%
It's Getting Weirder! The Making of "House II"
27 Mar 2017
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The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect
05 Dec 2000