John Richardson

Personal Info

Know For

Visual Effects

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-06-10 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK

John Richardson

Biography

John Richardson (born 1946 in England) is a British special effects supervisor. He is best known for his work on the James Bond film series (at least Casino Royale, Moonraker, Octopussy, A View to a Kill and Die Another Day), all the Harry Potter film series (2001-2011), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Aliens (1986). For the latter, he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 1987 ceremony.[1] He won the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for his work on the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award at the 2012 ceremony. In 2019, he published the book "Mak...

Production

1989

Licence to Kill

as Visual Effects

2007

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

as Special Effects Supervisor

2010

1978

Warlords of Atlantis

as Visual Effects Supervisor

1977

A Bridge Too Far

as Special Effects Supervisor

1980

North Sea Hijack

as Special Effects Supervisor

1978

Superman

as Special Effects

1971

The Devils

as Special Effects

2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

as Special Effects Supervisor

2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

as Special Effects Supervisor

1973

Scorpio

as Special Effects

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