Douglas Trumbull - Actor Profile

Douglas Trumbull

21Movies
8.5 Best Rating

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Douglas Huntley Trumbull (April 8, 1942, Los Angeles- 7th February 2022 ) is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor. He contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Blade Runner, and directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm. Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas Trumbull  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Top Rated Movies

★8.5
Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future (2018) movie poster
★8.5

Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future — Long before satellites would journey to planets and deep-space telescopes would photograph distant galaxies, there was a

Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future

2018•Documentary
★8.0
Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (2022) movie poster
★8.0

Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey — A 'cine-ramic' roller-coaster ride through the rise, fall and re-birth of projected film.

Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey

2022•Documentary
★7.9
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007) movie poster
★7.9

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner — The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

2007•Documentary
★7.8
Jodorowsky's Dune (2013) movie poster
★7.8

Jodorowsky's Dune — In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influ

Jodorowsky's Dune

2013•Documentary
★7.5
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000) movie poster
★7.5

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' — This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridle

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

2000•Documentary

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2025 The Alien Perspective - ★ 7.0 HIT
2022 Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey - ★ 8.0 HIT
2022 In Search of Tomorrow Self - Interviewee ★ 6.7 HIT
2021 The Blade Runner Phenomenon Self - Visual Effects Supervisor (1982) ★ 6.9 HIT
2020 Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind Self ★ 6.4 FLOP
2018 Trumbull Land Self ★ 7.5 HIT
2018 Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future Self ★ 8.5 HIT
2013 Jodorowsky's Dune Self - V/FX Artist (archive footage) ★ 7.8 HIT
2011 Exploring 'The Tree of Life' Self ★ 6.6 HIT
2007 Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner Self ★ 7.9 HIT
2007 Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 Self ★ 6.0 FLOP
2007 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2003 The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film Self ★ 6.0 FLOP
2002 Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 'Silent Running' By Director Douglas Trumbull Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2001 The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' Self ★ 6.8 HIT
2001 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures Self ★ 7.4 HIT
2001 2001: The Making of a Myth Self (as Doug Trumbull) ★ 6.5 HIT
2001 2001 and Beyond Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2000 On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' Self ★ 7.5 HIT
1972 The Making of Silent Running Self ★ 6.0 FLOP