A. Arnold Gillespie(1899-1978)

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.

8.1

Movie

7.5

Movie

8.1

Movie

8.3

Movie

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
5.9
- 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

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
5.8
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1934
La foule
8.1
- settings (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1928
Va, petit mousse!
- sets (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1927
Londres après minuit
6.7
- settings (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1927

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.