A. Arnold Gillespie(1899-1978)

Special Effects
Visual Effects
Art Department

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A. Arnold Gillespie was born on 14 October 1899 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He is known for Ben-Hur (1959), Planète interdite (1956) and Le Magicien d'Oz (1939). He was married to Nell Hill, Ruth Elder and Dora Ingram. He died on 3 May 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Won 3 Oscars
- 4 wins & 9 nominations total

Known for

Ben-Hur (1959)

8.1

Visual Effects

1959

Planète interdite (1956)

Planète interdite

7.5

Special Effects(uncredited)

1956

Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Terry, and Josefine Balluck in Le Magicien d'Oz (1939)

Le Magicien d'Oz

8.1

Special Effects(as Arnold Gillespie)

1939

La Mort aux trousses (1959)

La Mort aux trousses

8.3

Special Effects

1959

Credits

Special Effects

Off to See the Wizard
6.6
TV Series
- special effects
- 1967
Atlantis, terre engloutie
5.5
- special effects
- 1961
La ruée vers l'Ouest
6.4
- special effects
- 1960
Un numéro du tonnerre
6.9
- special effects
- 1960
Les aventuriers du fleuve
6.2
- special effects
- 1960
Cargaison dangereuse
6.7
- special effects
- 1959
La Mort aux trousses
8.3
- special effects
- 1959
Vertes Demeures
5.3
- special effects
- 1959
La dernière torpille
6.4
- special effects
- 1958
Prenez garde à la flotte
6.1
- special effects
- 1957
Le Rock du bagne
6.5
- special effects
- 1957
Femmes coupables
6.5
- special effects
- 1957
Contrebande au Caire
6.1
- special effects
- 1957
La cage aux hommes
6.4
- special effects
- 1957
Terreur dans la vallée
6.2
- special effects
- 1957

Visual Effects

La plus grande histoire jamais contée
6.6
- special visual effects
- 1965
La reine du Colorado
6.6
- special visual effects
- 1964
Pas de lauriers pour les tueurs
6.8
- special visual effects
- 1963
Jumbo, la sensation du cirque
6.1
- special visual effects
- 1962
Les Révoltés du Bounty
7.2
- special visual effects
- 1962
La Conquête de l'Ouest
7.1
- special visual effects
- 1962
La guerre en dentelles
5.8
- special visual effects
- 1962
Les quatre cavaliers de l'apocalypse
6.5
- special visual effects
- 1962
Ben-Hur
8.1
- special photographic effects
- 1959
L'odyssée du sous-marin Nerka
7.3
- special photographic effects (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1958
Three Wise Fools
6.5
- transparency projection shots (uncredited)
- 1946
Ève éternelle
6.1
- transparency projection shots (uncredited)
- 1946
L'ange et le bandit
6.8
- transparency projection shots (uncredited)
- 1946
Du burlesque à l'opéra
6.6
- transparency projection shots (uncredited)
- 1946
Le facteur sonne toujours deux fois
7.4
- miniatures
- transparency projection shots (uncredited)
- 1946

Art Department

Capitaines courageux
7.9
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1937
La terre chinoise
7.5
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1937
San Francisco
7.1
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1936
Speed
5.7
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1936
La petite provinciale
6.5
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1936
Taro le païen
6.0
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1935
Les révoltés du Bounty
7.6
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1935
La fugue de Mariette
6.5
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1935
Le témoin imprévu
6.9
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1934
Student Tour
5.1
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1934
J'épouserai un millionnaire
6.6
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1934
L'agent N° 13
5.9
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1934
La foule
8.0
- settings (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1928
Va, petit mousse!
- sets (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1927
Londres après minuit
6.7
- settings (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1927

Personal details

Alternative names
- A.Arnold Gillespie
Height
- 1.77 m
Born
- October 14, 1899
- El Paso, Texas, USA
Died
- May 3, 1978
- Los Angeles, California, USA(undisclosed)
Spouses
Publicity listings
- 1 Article

Did you know

Trivia
His career at MGM was so long that he worked on the original Ben-Hur (1925) and its remake Ben-Hur (1959) and the original Les révoltés du Bounty (1935) and its remake Les Révoltés du Bounty (1962).

Quotes
[on filming 'San Francisco'] The big-theater-nightclub set for this picture, in which Miss McDonald warbled her lovely lyric soprano, occupied all of Stage 12 at MGM. There had been some argument about the destructive movement of an earthquake. I supported the 'horizontal' theory, while others insisted that it was the vertical 'rolling-ups-and-downs' which caused the damage. An expert from California Polytechinc College in Pasadena was contacted, and I won. In fact, he commented that our 'schematic' for the set actually represented the very kind of an 'earthquake table' upon which, in small scale, Cal Tech experiments were conducted.

Nickname
- Buddy

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