American film director, special effects designer
According to Wikipedia, Douglas Hunt Trumbull was an American film director and innovative visual effects supervisor. He pioneered methods in special effects and created scenes for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life, and directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm.
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