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Carlo Rambaldi was born on 15 September, 1925 in Vigarano Mainarda, Italy, is an Italian special effects artist (1925–2012). Discover Carlo Rambaldi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?
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Special effects Visual effects |
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87 years old |
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Virgo |
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15 September 1925 |
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15 September |
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Vigarano Mainarda, Italy |
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10 August, 2012 |
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Lamezia Terme, Italy |
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Italy
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Carlo Rambaldi Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Carlo Rambaldi's Wife?
His wife is Bruna Basso
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Bruna Basso |
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Vittorio Daniela |
Carlo Rambaldi Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Carlo Rambaldi worth at the age of 87 years old? Carlo Rambaldi’s income source is mostly from being a successful Special Effects. He is from Italy. We have estimated Carlo Rambaldi's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Carlo Rambaldi (September 15, 1925 – August 10, 2012) was an Italian special effects artist, winner of three Oscars: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong and two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 1980 and 1983 for, respectively, Alien (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
He is most famous for his work in those two last mentioned films, that is for the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien and the design of the title character of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Carlo Rambaldi was born September 15, 1925, in Vigarano Mainarda, Emilia-Romagna.
He studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, where he developed a passion for electromechanics and the skeleton and musculature of the human body.
He was heavily influenced by the work of Picasso and the Italian artist Renato Guttuso.
Rambaldi's first work in film was creating a fire-breathing dragon for the 1957 Italian picture Sigfrido (titled in the English version as The Dragon's Blood).
Some films he worked on included Medusa vs the Son of Hercules (1962), Bloody Pit of Horror (1965), Planet of the Vampires (1965), Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965), L'Odissea (1968, a TV miniseries), A Bay of Blood (1972), The Night of the Devils (1972), Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (1974), Andy Warhol's Dracula (1974), Deep Red (Profondo Rosso, 1975), King Kong (1976), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Alien (1979), Nightwing (1979), Possession (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Dune (1984), Conan the Destroyer (1984), Silver Bullet (1985), Cat's Eye (1985), King Kong Lives (1986) and Cameron's Closet (1988), among others.
Rambaldi had the distinction of being the first special effects artist to be required to prove that his work on a film was not 'real'.
In 1963 he became a full-time special effects artist.
He worked with Italian directors including Mario Bava, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mario Monicelli and Dario Argento.
Dog-mutilation scenes in the 1971 film A Lizard in a Woman's Skin were so convincingly visceral that its director, Lucio Fulci, was prosecuted for offenses relating to animal cruelty.
Fulci would have served a two-year prison sentence, had Rambaldi not exhibited the film's array of props to a courtroom, proving that the scene was not filmed using real animals.
Rambaldi's last screen credit was on the 1988 horror film Primal Rage, directed by his son Vittorio.
When computer-generated special effects became common place, Rambaldi complained, "Any kid with a computer can reproduce the special effects seen in today’s movies. The mystery's gone. The curiosity that viewers once felt when they saw special effects has disappeared. It's as if a magician had revealed all of his tricks... There’s no question that these computer films are well packaged but the charm has disappeared... If Spielberg were to film E.T. today using the latest technology I'm not sure it would be a hit because the techniques they’re using at the moment couldn't reproduce the tender expression of ET's eyes, for example. The secret of creating what technology is unable to express lies in the work of the artisan, who is able to develop characteristics that touch our deepest emotions."
Carlo Rambaldi married Bruna Basso, with whom he had a son, Vittorio, and a daughter, Daniela.
Another son, Alessandro, died of a rare form of leukemia at 33 years of age.
Rambaldi died after a long illness on August 10, 2012, in Lamezia Terme, Calabria, where he had lived for the last decade of his life, after relocating to be near his daughter and grandchildren.
His ashes were laid to rest in the family tomb in Vigarano Mainarda, near his son Alessandro.