Albert Whitlock

Albert Whitlock

Albert J. Whitlock (September 15, 1915 in London – October 26, 1999 in Santa Barbara, California) was an English motion picture matte artist best known for his work with Disney and Universal Studios.

Biography

His film career began as a page at Gaumont Studios in London in 1929, before going on to build sets and work as a grip. Trained as a sign painter, he began a life-long association with Alfred Hitchcock, completing all of the signs for "The 39 Steps" and then assisting in the miniature effects for "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

Whitlock began working as a matte artist during World War II. Recruited by Walt Disney, who was an admirer of his work, he would relocate to the U.S. in the early 1950s.

At Disney, where the head of the Matte Department was fellow-Londoner and near-exact contemporary Peter Ellenshaw, he successfully mastered the impressionistic approach to matte painting that he would become known for. He remained with the studio for seven years, helping with the design of Disneyland as well as film work, before moving to Universal in 1961. There he served as the head of their matte department, continuing his long collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock and many other directors, until retiring from the company in 1985 (though he continued to work on the odd production for a few years after).

His crowning achievement was the creation of over 70 individual matte paintings for the 1974 disaster film, "Earthquake," which earned him an Academy Award. He won the Oscar again the following year for "The Hindenburg", in which he re-created the great airship and its final voyage. Universal loaned out Whitlock and his team for some notable visual effects work on films including "", the David Lynch version of "Dune", "Mame", "The Learning Tree" and "Bound for Glory". In the latter film, Whitlock created the famous Dust Storm with moving cotton-covered disks.

In addition to his film work, Whitlock is famous among Star Trek fans for the matte painting used to establish the huge exterior of the Delta Vega lithium cracking station in "" (1966). The painting was later modified and reused as the Tantalus penal colony from the Star Trek episode "Dagger of the Mind".

He is also responsible for the matte paintings in "History of the World, Part I", and even appears in the movie hawking used chariots.

Awards

Awards won

*1975: Academy Award for Special Achievement in Visual Effects in "Earthquake" (shared with Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson)
*1976: Academy Award for Special Achievement in Visual Effects in "The Hindenburg" (shared with Glen Robinson)
*1985: Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in " A.D." shared with Syd Dutton, Mark Whitlock, Bill Taylor, Dennis Glouner, Lynn Ledgerwood)

Awards nominated

*1968: Academy Award for Special Effects in "Tobruk" (shared with Howard A. Anderson)
*1979: Saturn Award for Best Special Effects in "The Wiz"

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