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...

live-action short and feature films before he fled from Russia in 1918. Willis O' Brien's first stop motion film was The Dinosaur and the Missing Link:...

King Kong stop motion animator Willis O'Brien around 1960, in which Kong battles a giant Frankenstein's monster; O'Brien gave the outline to producer John...

in his first credited screen role. Animation effects were handled by Willis O'Brien, Ray Harryhausen, Pete Peterson, and Marcel Delgado. It was released...

is a 1915 American comedy silent film animated with stop motion by Willis O'Brien. The film was distributed by Thomas Edison's film company Conquest Pictures...

Pictures. Directed by Ernest Schoedsack and featuring special effects by Willis O'Brien and Buzz Gibson, the film stars Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack and Frank...

p. 56. "Willis O'Brien giant gorilla painting". Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2016. "Willis O'Brien-Creator of...

include the animation for Mighty Joe Young (1949) with his mentor Willis H. O'Brien (for which the latter won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects);...

size constraints of the game, and that he preferred Harryhausen and Willis O’Brien films over kaiju films such as Godzilla. The game was released for the...

the film project from his mentor Willis O'Brien, responsible for the effects in the original King Kong (1933). O'Brien had planned to make The Valley of...