Douglas Trumbull
Douglas Trumbull Trumbull at the annual FMX Conference in 2012 Born (1942-04-08) April 8, 1942 (age 72) Los Angeles Nationality American Occupation director, producer, writer, special effects supervisor Douglas Huntley Trumbull (/ˈtrʌmbəl/; born April 8, 1942) is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor. He contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of 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.