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Cliff Culley

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  • Special Effects
  • Camera and Electrical Department
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Cliff Culley in The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (2000)
Cliff Culley, started at Pinewood special effects department at 1946, under Bill Warrington as head of department. At that time, it was Les Bowie chief of matte painting, and latter on, when Bowie left, Albert Whitlock worked from 1949 to 1953 at Pinewood matte department. Culley became a matte painting specialist and worked on loads of films over the years, and became head of Pinewood's matte painting department in the mid-late 1960s. He provided many optical gags on films too, for example, the reflection of thug in the eye of the beautiful girl from "Goldfinger" Cliff Culley is best known for supervising the matte art on most of the early James Bond films, like, "From Russia with love", "You Only Live Twice" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". During the 60's, Culley took Charles Stoneham as matte painter assistant at Pinewood matte department. During these years at Pinewood, he worked at almost every movie filmed on the Studios, with titles like "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "One of Our Dinosaurs is missing" and "Spaceman in King Arthur's Court" for Disney. Since leaving Rank in the mid 70s, Cliff Culley opened his own firm, "Westbury Design and Optical", that provided overspill latent image composition and optical tricks on films such as "Hellraiser II", or "Sword of the valiant" . He got Leigh Took as matte assistant at 1978. His son Neil Culley worked with him since the late 70s as matte camera operator on films like, "Warlords of Atlantis" or "Clash of the Titans". Cliff Culley retired at 1997 after working on the film "Orphans".
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Known for

Clash of the Titans (1981)
Clash of the Titans
6.9
  • Visual Effects
  • 1981
Dick Van Dyke, Adrian Hall, Sally Ann Howes, and Heather Ripley in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
6.9
  • Visual Effects
  • 1968
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
6.4
  • Visual Effects
  • 1988
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
5.5
  • Visual Effects(Westbury Design & Optical)
  • 1992

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Visual Effects

  • Orphans (1998)
    Orphans
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Saint-Ex (1996)
    Saint-Ex
  • Meg Ryan, Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, and Polly Walker in Restoration (1995)
    Restoration
    • (uncredited)
  • Thomas Ian Nicholas in A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
    A Kid in King Arthur's Court
  • The Advocate (1993)
    The Advocate
    • (uncredited)
  • An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)
    An Ungentlemanly Act
  • Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)
    Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
  • Nightbreed (1990)
    Nightbreed
  • Bloodstone (1988)
    Bloodstone
  • Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
    Hellbound: Hellraiser II
  • Fairuza Balk, Brian Henson, John Alexander, Sean Barrett, Denise Bryer, Justin Case, Lyle Conway, Stewart Harvey-Wilson, Stephen Norrington, Tim Rose, Deep Roy, Michael Sundin, and Mak Wilson in Return to Oz (1985)
    Return to Oz
    • (uncredited)
  • Sword of the Valiant (1984)
    Sword of the Valiant
  • The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
    The Last Days of Pompeii
  • Blind Date (1984)
    Blind Date

Special Effects

  • An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)
    An Ungentlemanly Act
  • Candleshoe (1977)
    Candleshoe
  • The Magical World of Disney (1954)
    The Magical World of Disney
  • Play for Today (1970)
    Play for Today
    • (as Clifford Culley)
  • Diamonds on Wheels (1973)
    Diamonds on Wheels
  • Kidnapped (1971)
    Kidnapped
  • The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971)
    The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
  • Eric Porter and Angharad Rees in Hands of the Ripper (1971)
    Hands of the Ripper
  • Carry on Henry VIII (1971)
    Carry on Henry VIII
    • (uncredited)
  • The Firechasers (1971)
    The Firechasers
  • Jane Eyre (1970)
    Jane Eyre
  • Carry on Cleo (1964)
    Carry on Cleo
    • (uncredited)
  • Operation Mermaid (1963)
    Operation Mermaid
  • Norman Wisdom in The Bulldog Breed (1960)
    The Bulldog Breed
    • (uncredited)
  • Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
    Sink the Bismarck!
    • (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

  • The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
    The Last Days of Pompeii

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    • 1928
    • Kensington, London, England, UK
    • 1951 - ?

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