Ray Harryhausen

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1920 age 0

   Born

2. 1956 age 36

   CreditEarth vs. the Flying Saucersdirector

3. 1957 age 37

   Credit20 Million Miles to Earth

4. 1958 age 38

   CreditThe 7th Voyage of Sinbadproducer

5. 1961 age 41

   CreditMysterious Islanddirector

   CreditMysterious Islandproducer

6. 1964 age 44

   CreditFirst Men in the Moondirector

7. 1969 age 49

   CreditThe Valley of Gwangiproducer

8. 1973 age 53

   CreditThe Golden Voyage of Sinbadproducer

   CreditThe Golden Voyage of Sinbadscreenwriter

9. 1977 age 57

   CreditSinbad and the Eye of the Tigerdirector

   CreditSinbad and the Eye of the Tigerproducer

   CreditSinbad and the Eye of the Tigerscreenwriter

10. 1981 age 61

    CreditClash of the Titansproducer

11. 1985 age 65

    CreditSpies Like Us

12. 1994 age 74

    CreditBeverly Hills Cop III

13. 1998 age 78

    CreditMighty Joe Young

14. 2010 age 90

    CreditBurke & Hare

15. 2013 age 92

    Died

• CSCharles H. Schneer9 titles
• TMTed Moore3 titles
• JLJohn Landis3 titles
• WCWilkie Cooper3 titles
• NJNathan Juran3 titles
• BHBernard Herrmann2 titles
• RPRobert Paynter2 titles
• FJFreda Jackson2 titles
• JZJohn Zaremba2 titles
• COCosta-Gavras2 titles

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  Photo:National Science and Media MuseumCC BY 3.0

• We don't deliberately desire to scare anybody - we design our creatures to fit in harmony with the story and, of course, our forte is the grotesque. That's why our films were classified so many times as horror films, which they weren't. I would call a war film a horror film because in those you see guts split and people being slaughtered, but our films deal with fantasy and are more theatrical than realistic.

  Ray Harryhausen, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [The skeleton] in Seventh Voyage of Sinbad was more frightening than the seven in Jason and the Argonauts. [...] Because we had seven skeletons I thought we were going to get seven "X" certificates but we got a "U" instantly. But one skeleton on its own is possibly more frightening than seven, and also in Seventh Voyage the skeleton was in a dark, spooky chamber, while in Jason the seven were out in the open on a sunny hilltop.

  Ray Harryhausen, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I suppose we would be monsters to a Venusian. [...] We depicted the outer space creature as something strange rather than as a monster. He was from a strange place and therefore out of place in our familiar surroundings.

  Ray Harryhausen, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I teethed on Frankenstein and Dracula but I feel that those films were made with greater taste than horror films are made today. They dwell too much on the gorier aspects of their subjects for some reason. I suppose it's because people are more jaded now.

  Ray Harryhausen, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I enjoyed Young Frankenstein. I didn't think I would because I like my Frankensteins pure and clean like the original but I was very amused by Young Frankenstein - I thought it was very well-done. On the whole I dislike tongue-in-cheek sendups. But I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy Flesh for Frankenstein. From what I've heard about it the film approaches the subject from the gorier side and neglects the profundity of the original.

  Ray Harryhausen, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We don't set out to deliberately scare with our creatures, we try to make them as awe-inspiring as possible.

  Ray Harryhausen, CC BY-SA 4.0