Willis O’Brien by Alec

13Mar10

Willis O’Brien was born on March 2, 1886 in Oakland, California and he died on November 8, 1962. He was an Irish American pioneering motion picture special effects artist who perfected

and specialized in stop-motion animation. He was a cartoonist for the San Francisco Daily News, and a professional marble sculptor before he began working in film.

O’Brien created many films including The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy (1915), The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1918), The Lost World (1925), King Kong (1933), Son

of Kong (1933), Mighty Joe Young (1949), and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).

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