Daniel Thomas O'Bannon was an American film screenwriter, director and visual effects supervisor, usually in the science fiction and horror genres.
17 Facts About Dan O'Bannon
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Dan O'Bannon wrote and directed the cult horror comedy The Return of the Living Dead.
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Dan O'Bannon contributed computer animation to Star Wars and worked on cult classics such as Dark Star, Heavy Metal, and Total Recall.
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Dan O'Bannon was born in St Louis, Missouri, the son of Bertha and Thomas Sidney Dan O'Bannon, a carpenter.
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Dan O'Bannon attended the art school of Washington University in St Louis, where he did stand-up comedy routines, did make-up for campus theater productions, and provided illustrations for Student Life, the student newspaper.
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Dan O'Bannon received a bachelor's degree in film from USC in 1970.
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Dan O'Bannon served in a number of capacities, including scripting, acting in one of the leading roles and editing, for which he used a 1940s Moviola.
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Dan O'Bannon was retained to supervise special effects for an Alejandro Jodorowsky production of Frank Herbert's Dune.
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Dan O'Bannon's role is prominently featured in the 2013 documentary Jodorowsky's Dune.
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The collapse of Dune left Dan O'Bannon broke, homeless, and dependent on friends for his survival.
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In 1981, Dan O'Bannon helped create the animated feature Heavy Metal, writing two of its segments.
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Dan O'Bannon voiced his displeasure with his next big-budget outing, John Badham's Blue Thunder, an action film about a Los Angeles helicopter surveillance team.
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In 1985, Dan O'Bannon moved into the director's chair with The Return of the Living Dead, a sequel to George Romero's Night of the Living Dead.
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Dan O'Bannon's second directorial feature, The Resurrected, was a low-budget horror effort released direct-to-video.
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In 2001, Dan O'Bannon was the filmmaker-in-residence at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
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Dan O'Bannon died from complications of Crohn's disease in Los Angeles on December 17,2009.
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Dan O'Bannon credited his experiences with Crohn's for inspiring the chest-bursting scene from Alien.