Profile details
- Born
- 2 Mar 1886
- Birthplace
- Oakland
- Country
- United States
- Career
- 1915–present
- Sport
- Boxing
- Discipline
- Combat
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
District, height, weight, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- ▸Winsor McCay Award
Statistics
About
Willis Harold O'Brien (March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962), known as Obie O'Brien, 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), The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) and Mighty Joe Young (1949), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Biography adapted from Willis H. O'Brien on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.