Remembering Ray

May 9, 2013 by Michael Mallory No Comments

In 2002 I received a call from my editor at the Los Angeles Times, asking if I would be interested in interviewing Ray Harryhausen. After ascertaining who I had to kill to get such an assignment, I found myself a few days later driving out to a house in the [...]

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Stop Motion Legend Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92

May 7, 2013 by Ramin Zahed 2 Comments

Visual effects icon Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion creations brought many monsters alive in movies such as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, died on Tuesday morning (May 7) at age 92. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he lived in the U.K. for several decades with his wife [...]

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Ray Harryhausen Talks Technique

July 13, 2011 by Michael Mallory 1 Comment

There are legends, and then there are legends, and then there is Ray Harryhausen.  The genius behind such stop-motion animation classics as The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts turned 91 a couple weeks ago, and does not make films anymore.  Nor does he give very many [...]

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