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Ron Cobb

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Artist, writer, film designer and cartoonist Ron Cobb was born in 1937 in Los Angeles, California. Cobb began his career in the mid 50s as an inbetweener/breakdown artist on the classic Walt Disney animated feature "Sleeping Beauty." Ron was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1960 and served in the Signal Corps during the Vietnam war in 1963... See full bio »

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1989 Robot Jox (conceptual designer - uncredited)
 
1985-1986 Amazing Stories (TV series) (main title designer - 24 episodes)
– Grandpa's Ghost (1986) (main title designer)
– One for the Books (1986) (main title designer)
– The Doll (1986) (main title designer)
– Hell Toupee (1986) (main title designer)
– Secret Cinema (1986) (main title designer)
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1974 Dark Star (special effects)
 
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2006 Southland Tales (conceptual artist)
 
2002 Firefly (TV series) (conceptual artist)
 
2000 The 6th Day (assistant art director)
 
2000 Titan A.E. (conceptual artist)
 
1996 Space Truckers (conceptual artist)
 
1990 Total Recall (conceptual artist)
 
1989 The Abyss (conceptual designer)
 
1989 Meet the Hollowheads (conceptual designer, visual consultant)
 
1986 Amazing Stories (TV series) (main title design - 1 episode)
– Magic Saturday (1986) (main title design)
 
1986 Aliens (conceptual designer)
 
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (production artist)
 
1979 Alien (concept artist)
 
1977 Star Wars (conceptual creature designer - uncredited)
 
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1999 The Alien Legacy (video documentary) (archival material)
 
1994 True Lies (logo designer: Omega Sector)
 
1985 Real Genius (laser technology)
 
1985 Back to the Future (consultant: DeLorean time travel)
 
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1992 Garbo
 
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1987 The Twilight Zone (TV series)
– Joy Ride/Shelter Skelter/Private Channel (1987) (teleplay / story)
 
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2002 The 'Alien' Saga (TV documentary) (acknowledgment: still photographs courtesy of)
 
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2010 Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star (video documentary)
Himself (voice)
 
2003 Superior Firepower: The Making of 'Aliens' (video documentary)
Himself
 
2003 The Beast Within: The Making of 'Alien' (video documentary)
Himself
 
2002 The 'Alien' Saga (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2001 Alien Evolution (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2000 Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' (video documentary)
Himself
 
1999 The Alien Legacy (video documentary)
Himself - Conceptual Artist
 
1996 Troldspejlet (TV series)
Himself - Artist
– Troldspejlet special: Besøg hos Rocket Science (1996) … Himself - Artist
 
1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' (video)
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Designed an ecology symbol similar to the Greek letter theta in 1969 and released it to the public domain. The following year, Look magazine incorporated the symbol into an ecology flag that was eventually used by environmentalists throughout the 1970s and which was associated with Earth Day. See more »