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Albert Arnold Gillespie
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American cinema special effects artist (1899-1978)
Film & TV
El Paso, Texas, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Arnold "Buddy" Gillespie (October 14, 1899 – May 3, 1978) was an American cinema special effects artist. He was born on October 14, 1899 in El Paso, Texas. Gillespie joined MGM as a set designer in 1925, a year after it was founded. He was educated at Columbia University and the Arts Students League. His first project was the silent film Ben-Hur,…
Known for
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic — Self (archive footage)1990
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Arnold
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- El Paso
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Spouse
- Ruth Elder
- Occupation
- artist
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Number of children
- 2
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- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- date of birth
- 1899-10-14
- date of death
- 1978-05-03
- birth name
- Albert Arnold Gillespie
- start of work period
- 1926-00-00
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