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Alec Gillis
New York City, New York, USA
Alec Dougal Gillis is an Academy Award-winning American special effects artist and actor who served as part of the creature effects crew on the 1986 film Aliens, the 1992 film Ali…
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Alec Dougal Gillis is an Academy Award-winning American special effects artist and actor who served as part of the creature effects crew on the 1986 film Aliens, the 1992 film Alien3, the 1997 film Alien Resurrection, the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator, the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and the 2018 film The Predator. He also appeared in a cameo as an unnamed technician in Alien vs. Predator, although he was not credited for the role. In 1988, Gillis co-founded Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI) with Tom Woodruff, Jr., and the company has since provided creature effects for Alien3, Alien Resurrection, Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Gillis's work has won an Academy Award for Visual Effects (for Death Becomes Her, although he was not listed on the official nomination) and a BAFTA. For his work on Alien3, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects, a BAFTA and a Saturn Award.
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2025
Predator: Badlands
Movie Creature Design
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2025
Cringe
Movie Fitz
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2025
Wellwood
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Smile 2
Movie Makeup Effects Designer
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2024
Alien: Romulus
Movie Special Effects Supervisor
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2023
Eulogy to Us
Movie
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2022
Smile
Movie Special Effects Makeup Artist
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2022
Prey
Movie Predator Puppeteer (ADI)
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2021
Oats Studios: Volume 1
Movie Militia #1 / Bill
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2021
OATS Studios
TV show 民兵
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2021
Witches Midnight
Movie Oswald Octav
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2020
Bad President - Kenya
Movie William "Billy" Coltran
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2020
Tremors: Making Perfection
Movie Himself
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2020
Adam 2.0
Movie Thanks
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2019
The Movies That Made Us
TV show Self
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2019
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
Movie Self
More credits
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2019
It Chapter Two
Movie Makeup Designer
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2019
Playtime
Movie Director
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2019
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
Movie Self
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2017
It
Movie Makeup Effects Designer
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2017
Cooking with Bill
TV show Bill
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2017
Bad President - All My Sh*t
Movie William 'Billy' Coltran
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2017
Bad President - Oil Spill
Movie William 'Billy' Coltran
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2017
Rakka
Movie Militia #1
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2015
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
Movie Self
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2015
Harbinger Down
Movie Director
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2015
San Andreas
Movie Makeup Effects
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2015
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Movie Special Effects Makeup Artist
- 2015
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2014
Leviathan: Monster Melting Pot
Movie Himself
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2014
Skin Wars
TV show Self - Guest Judge
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2013
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Movie Special Effects Makeup Artist
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2012
Men in Suits
Movie Self
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2012
Astronaut: The Last Push
Movie Charlie
- 2011
- 2010
- 2010
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2010
Skyline
Movie Creature Design
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2009
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
Movie Self
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2007
Monster Squad Forever!
Movie Self
