Willis H. O'Brien
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Born in Oakland, California, he left home as a child, worked as a ranch hand, boxer and draftsman, and honed his sculpting and illustration skills before entering the motion-picture field. A short test of a dinosaur model caught the eye of a local exhibitor, leading to his first film, The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (1915), and subsequent employment by the Edison Company, where he produced pione…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources