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Ray Harryhausen (Raymond Frederick Harryhausen) was born on 29 June, 1920 in Los Angeles, California, USA, is a producer,visual_effects,director. Discover Ray Harryhausen'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 93 years old?

Popular As Raymond Frederick Harryhausen
Occupation producer,visual_effects,director
Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 29 June, 1920
Birthday 29 June
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, USA
Date of death 7 May, 2013
Died Place London, England, UK
Nationality United States

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Ray Harryhausen Height, Weight & Measurements

At 93 years old, Ray Harryhausen height is 6' 1" (1.85 m) .

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Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)
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Who Is Ray Harryhausen's Wife?

His wife is Diana Livingstone Bruce (1963 - 7 May 2013) ( his death) ( 1 child)

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Ray Harryhausen Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ray Harryhausen worth at the age of 93 years old? Ray Harryhausen’s income source is mostly from being a successful Producer. He is from United States. We have estimated Ray Harryhausen's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income Producer

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1933

When it comes to motion picture special effects, there is only one name that personifies movie magic--Ray Harryhausen. From his debut films with George Pal to his final film, Harryhausen imbued magic and visual strength to motion picture special effects as no other technician has, before or since. Born in Los Angeles, the signature event in Harryhausen's life was when he saw King Kong (1933). So awed was the 13-year-old Harryhausen that he began researching the film's effects work, ultimately learning all he could about Willis H. O'Brien and stop-motion photography--he even contacted O'Brien and showed an allosaur short he made, which caused O'Brien to quip to his wife, "You realize you're encouraging my competition, don't you?" Harryhausen tried to make a stop-motion epic, titled "Evolution", but the time required to make it resulted in it being cut short. The footage he completed--of a lumbering apatosaurus attacked by a belligerent allosaurus--made excellent use as a demo reel, and as a result Harryhausen's first film job came with George Pal, working on Pal's Puppetoon shorts for Paramount. A stint in the army utilized Harryhausen's animation skills for training films. After World War II Harryhausen acquired over 1000 feet of unused military film and made a series of Puppetoon-flavored fairy tale shorts, which helped him land a job with Willis H.

1940

He often talked to Bernard Herrmann about doing a film in which Herrmann would have written pieces of music and Harryhausen would have designed animation sequences to go with them, a la Fantasia (1940).

1949

O'Brien and Marcel Delgado on Mighty Joe Young (1949). Although O'Brien received credit for it, 85% of the actual animation was done by Harryhausen.

1950

The result was one of the most influential sci-fi films of the 1950s. From there Harryhausen went over to Columbia and teamed with producer Charles H. Schneer, the teaming becoming synonymous among sci-fi and fantasy film aficionados with top-notch special effects work the remainder of their respective careers.

1953

Harryhausen's real breakthrough, however, came when he was hired by Warner Brothers to do the special effects for The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953). The film's $200,000 budget meant that Harryhausen would be forced to improvise to get the kinds of quality effects he wanted, and to that end he learned a technique called "split-screen" (rear projection on overlapping miniature screens) to insert dinosaurs and other fantastic beasts into real-world backgrounds.

1958

After three sci-fi monster films and work with Willis O'Brien on an Irwin Allen documentary, Harryhausen did the effects work for The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), his first split-screen film shot entirely in color, which was highlighted by Harryhausen's mythological monsters interacting with Kathryn Grant, Torin Thatcher's flavorful performance as the villain and the rousing score of Bernard Herrmann.

1960

The 1960s were Harryhausen's best years, among the highlights being his reunions with dinosaurs in Hammer Films' One Million Years B. C.

1963

Because Harryhausen worked alone on his stop-motion animation sequences, the filming of these could often take as long as two years, the most famous example of the kind of patience required being the exciting skeleton sword fight sequence in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) (his most popular film) in which Harryhausen often shot no more than 13 frames of film (one-half second of elapsed time) per day.

1966

(1966) and The Valley of Gwangi (1969).

1970

His pace slowed in the 1970s, but he produced three of his masterworks during that period: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973); Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) and Clash of the Titans (1981).

1981

After the success of Clash of the Titans (1981), he planned work on a sequel entitled Force of the Trojans, which was to be based on the travels of the Trojan warrior Aeneas. Ultimately, the film was never made, possibly due to the advent of more sophisticated computer-assisted technology.

2001

The restaurant in Monsters, Inc. (2001) is named after him.

2003

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Blvd. on June 10, 2003.

2005

In Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005), the use of stop-motion animation reaches new heights, and as a tribute to him, the grand piano that appears in it has a gold name plate with "Harryhausen" engraved on it.

2013

Passed away on May 7, 2013, less than two months from what would have been his 93rd birthday on June 29th.