Douglas Trumbull

Douglas Hunt Trumbull (; April 8, 1942 – February 7, 2022) was an American movie director, special effects supervisor, and inventor. He was known for his special photographic effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life. He directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm. Trumbull was born in Los Angeles, California. In 1979, he won a Saturn Award.

Trumbull died at a hospital in Albany, New York on February 7, 2022 from a stroke caused by brain cancer at the age of 79.

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