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Personal Info

Known Credits 39

Gender Male

Birthdate 1946-11-01 (79 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Glendale, California, USA

Also Known For

Dennis Muren

Biography

Dennis Muren, A.S.C. (born November 1, 1946) is an American film visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked on the films of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and James Cameron, among others, and has won nine Oscars in total: eight for Best Visual Effects and a Technical Achievement Academy Award. The Visual Effects Society has called him "a perpetual student, teacher, innovator, and mentor." He has been identified as "a pioneer in bringing a new wave of visual effects films to the public ...

Known For

A Celebration of Tenacity

Lost in Time: Unearthing the Primevals

In Search of Tomorrow

Empire at 40

Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters

Acting

2024 -- A Celebration of Tenacity | Self

2024 -- Lost in Time: Unearthing the Primevals | Self

2022 -- In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee

2020 -- Empire at 40 | Self

2019 -- Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters | Self

2017 -- T2: Reprogramming The Terminator | Self

2017 -- Spielberg | Self

2017 -- Finding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren | Himself

2015 -- Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex | Self

2013 -- From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking | Self - Senior Visual Effects Supervisor

2012 -- Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan | Self

2012 -- Side by Side | Self

2011 -- Return to Jurassic Park | Self

2010 -- Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible | Self

2008 -- Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad | Self

2007 -- Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers | Self

2007 -- Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 | Self

2007 -- The Pixar Story | Self

2006 -- Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet | Self

2006 -- The Sci-Fi Boys | Self

2005 -- George Lucas: Creating an Empire | Self

2003 -- No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects |

2001 -- R2-D2: Beneath the Dome | Self

2001 -- The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' | Self

1999 -- Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs | Self

1999 -- Crossing the Frontier: Making The Last Starfighter | Self

1999 -- From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic | Self

1997 -- The Making of 'The Lost World' | Self

1997 -- Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery | Self

1997 -- The Harryhausen Chronicles | Self

1996 -- The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' | Self

1995 -- The Making of 'Jurassic Park' | Self

1994 -- Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects | Self

1991 -- The Making of 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' | Self

1988 -- Willow: The Making of an Adventure | Self - Visual Effects

1984 -- The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' | Self

1983 -- From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga | Self

1983 -- Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi | Self

1981 -- Raiders of the Lost Ark | Nazi Spy on the Airplane (uncredited)