Chris Walas

Chris Walas
Born	Christopher James Walas c. 1955 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation	Make-up artist Director

Chris Walas (born 1955) is an American special effects/make-up artist and film director.

Biography

His main body of work is with special effects in a wide variety of movies from science fiction to action-adventure. His work on The Fly led to his directorial debut on The Fly II.^[1] He also won an Academy Award for Special Effects Make-up on The Fly and is well known for his creation of the Gremlins. Walas was also partially responsible for creating the famous sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the Nazis melt from the intense heat created by the Ark of the Covenant. Walas created false heads for Ronald Lacey, Wolf Kahler, and Paul Freeman.

Filmographies

Special effects

2002	Dark Heaven	designer: angels
1991	Curse III: Blood Sacrifice	monster design
	Naked Lunch	special effects and monster design
1990	Arachnophobia	creature effects supervisor
1989	The Fly II	effects designer and creator: Chris Walas Inc.
1987	House II: The Second Story	makeup and creature effects designer
1986	The Fly	creature effects
1985	Enemy Mine	aliens creator and designer: Chris Walas Inc. special creature makeup and effects director: Chris Walas Inc.
1984	Gremlins	creator: Gremlins
1983	Return of the Jedi	creature consultant
1981	Dragonslayer	close-up dragon: ILM
1980	Airplane!	special projects
	Humanoids from the Deep	special effects (uncredited)
1979	Up from the Depths	special effects
1978	Piranha	special properties

Make-up

1995	Jade	special makeup effects
	Virtuosity	special makeup effects
1989	Tales from the Crypt: "The Switch"	special makeup effects
1985	Enemy Mine	special makeup effects
1984	Gremlins	special makeup effects
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	special makeup effects: ILM
	Caveman	creator: abominable snowman
	Scanners	special makeup effects
1980	Galaxina	special makeup effects
1979	Something Waits in the Dark (later known as Screamers)	special makeup effects, U.S. filmed additions to L'isola degli uomini pesce

Visual effects

2002

Dark Heaven

visual effects

Director

1992	The Vagrant
1989	Tales from the Crypt: "'Til Death"
	The Fly II

Notes

↑ "Bring on the Gore: Top Ten Practical Effects in Horror!".

External links

Chris Walas at the Internet Movie Database

Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling

1981–2000	1981: Rick Baker 1982: Sarah Monzani and Michèle Burke 1983: None given this year 1984: Paul LeBlanc and Dick Smith 1985: Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek 1986: Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis 1987: Rick Baker 1988: Ve Neill, Steve La Porte, and Robert Short 1989: Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber, and Kevin Haney 1990: Doug Drexler and John Caglione Jr. 1991: Jeff Dawn and Stan Winston 1992: Michèle Burke, Greg Cannom, and Matthew W. Mungle 1993: Greg Cannom, Ve Neill, and Yolanda Toussieng 1994: Rick Baker, Ve Neill, and Yolanda Toussieng 1995: Lois Burwell, Peter Frampton, and Paul Pattison 1996: Rick Baker and David LeRoy Anderson 1997: Rick Baker and David LeRoy Anderson 1998: Jenny Shircore 1999: Christine Blundell and Trefor Proud 2000: Rick Baker and Gail Ryan

2001–present	2001: Peter Owen and Richard Taylor 2002: Beatrice De Alba and John E. Jackson 2003: Peter King and Richard Taylor 2004: Bill Corso and Valli O'Reilly 2005: Howard Berger and Tami Lane 2006: David Martí and Montse Ribé 2007: Jan Archibald and Didier Lavergne 2008: Greg Cannom 2009: Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, and Joel Harlow 2010: Rick Baker and Dave Elsey 2011: Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland 2012: Julie Dartnell and Lisa Westcott 2013: Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews 2014: Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier 2015: Damian Martin, Lesley Vanderwalt, and Elka Wardega

Academy Award for Best Makeup before 2012

Saturn Award for Best Special Effects

Marcel Vercoutere (1977) Joe Dante and Mark Goldblatt (1973) Douglas Knapp, Bill Taylor, John Carpenter, and Dan O'Bannon (1974/75) L. B. Abbott (1976) John Dykstra and John Stears (1977) Colin Chilvers (1978) Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, and Richard Yuricich (1979) Brian Johnson and Richard Edlund (1980) Richard Edlund (1981) Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren (1982) Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, and Ken Ralston (1983) Chris Walas (1984) Kevin Pike (1985) Stan Winston, Robert Skotak and Dennis Skotak (1986) Peter Kuran, Phil Tippett, Rob Bottin, and Rocco Gioffre (1987) George Gibbs, Ken Ralston, and Richard Williams (1988) Ken Ralston (1989/90) Stan Winston (1991) Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri (1993) John Bruno (1994) Stan Parks (1995) Volker Engel, Clay Pinney, Douglas Smith, and Joe Viskocil (1996) Phil Tippett, Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., John Richardson (1997) Volker Engel, Patrick Tatopoulos, Karen E. Goulekas, and Clay Pinney (1998) Rob Coleman, John Knoll, Dennis Muren, and Scott Squires (1999) Scott E. Anderson, Craig Hayes, Scott Stokdyk, and Stan Parks (2000) Dennis Muren, Scott Farrar, Stan Winston, Michael Lantieri (2001) Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll, and Ben Snow (2002) Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2003) John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, and John Frazier (2004) Joe Letteri, Richard Taylor, Christian Rivers, and Brian Van't Hul (2005) John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall (2006) Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl, and John Frazier (2007) Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, and Paul J. Franklin (2008) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones (2009) Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Paul J. Franklin, and Peter Bebb (2010) Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, R. Christopher White, and Daniel Barrett (2011) Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, and Dan Sudick (2012) Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, and Neil Corbould (2013) Paul J. Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott R. Fisher (2014) Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould (2015)

Note: The years are listed as per convention, usually the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the next year.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 74050469 LCCN: n2011079670 ISNI: 0000 0000 5945 9132 GND: 137922426 BNF: cb14023835q (data)

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