Douglas Trumbull
Douglas Hunt Trumbull was an American film director and visual effects supervisor, who pioneered innovative methods in special effects. He created scenes for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life, and directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm.
8 April 1942
Born on the same birth date (8 April 1942): Roger Chapman • Tony Banks, Baron Stratford
Born on the same birth day (8 April): Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone • Derrick Walker • Jenni Asserholt • John Arbuthnott (microbiologist) • John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford • Khaled Badra • Lloyd Bott • Mark Spencer (computer engineer) • Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova • Tine Asmundsen • Winifred Asprey • Yip Harburg
Born in the same month (April 1942): Anita Pallenberg • Frank Williams (Formula One) • Giorgio Agamben • Jim Lonborg • Mike Brearley • Richard M. Daley • Robert Christgau • Sallehuddin of Kedah • Tim Lankester • Walt Hazzard