25 Movie Talents We Lost In 2016
13. Tony Dyson
In strange twist of fate, British robotics expert and special effects designer Tony Dyson – the man who built and brought the iconic R2-D2 to life – died this year too.
Dyson also worked on movies including Superman II, James Bond flick Moonraker and the Kirk Douglas fronted sci-fi Saturn 3.
Beyond R2-D2, some of Dyson’s other most notable contributions to
film include working on the robotics behind the villainous dragon Vermithrax in
the 1981 Disney fantasy film Dragonslayer, hailed by director Guillermo del
Toro as one of his favourite Disney dragons, and crafted 35 feet of latex human
intestines for a dream sequence in Ken Russell’s trippy 1980 sci-fi horror
Altered States.