Alec Gillis
Known for: Acting
Born: August 29, 1959
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Alec Dougal Gillis is an Academy Award-winning American special effects artist and actor who served as part of the creature effects crew on the 1986 film Aliens, the 1992 film Alien3, the 1997 film Alien Resurrection, the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator, the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and the 2018 film The Predator. He also appeared in a cameo as an unnamed technician in Alien vs. Predator, although he was not credited for the role. In 1988, Gillis co-founded Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI) with Tom Woodruff, Jr., and the company has since provided creature effects for Alien3, Alien Resurrection, Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Gillis's work has won an Academy Award for Visual Effects (for Death Becomes Her, although he was not listed on the official nomination) and a BAFTA. For his work on Alien3, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects, a BAFTA and a Saturn Award.
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Filmography
68 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
7.8
Predator: Badlands
2025
NR
Cringe
2025
5.2
Wellwood
2025
6.6
Smile 2
2024
7.2
Alien: Romulus
2024
NR
Eulogy to Us
2023
6.7
Smile
2022
7.7
Prey
2022
6.3
Oats Studios: Volume 1
2021
6.7
OATS Studios
2021
2.0
Witches Midnight
2021
5.1
Bad President - Kenya
2020
6.4
Tremors: Making Perfection
2020
4.0
Adam 2.0
2020
7.3
The Movies That Made Us
2019
7.4
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
2019
6.8
It Chapter Two
2019
7.0
Playtime
2019
6.8
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
2019
7.2
It
20174.7
Bad President - Oil Spill
20174.4
Bad President - All My Sh*t
2017
5.5
Cooking with Bill
2017
7.0
Rakka
2017
7.2
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
2015
4.5
Harbinger Down
2015
6.3
San Andreas
2015
5.2
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
2015
2.7
The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars'
2015
NR
Leviathan: Monster Melting Pot
2014
6.5
Skin Wars
2014
6.0
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013
8.0
Men in Suits
2012
5.2
Astronaut: The Last Push
2012
8.0
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011
8.3
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
2010
NR
Chiller 13: The Decade's Scariest Movie Moments
2010
5.1
Skyline
2010
6.2
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
2009
7.4
Monster Squad Forever!
2007
5.3
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
2005
8.0
Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection
2005
5.0
Elektra
2005
6.0
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004
7.0
Shooting 'Panic Room'
2004
7.5
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
2003
7.8
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
6.0
The Santa Clause 2
2002
NR
Behind the Scenes of 'John Q'
2002
8.0
Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'
2002
NR
Starship Troopers: Know Your Foe
2002
7.4
Spider-Man
2002
6.8
Panic Room
2002
6.0
The 6th Day
2000
6.0
Hollow Man
2000
NR
Making Jumanji: The Realm of Imagination
2000
NR
Lions and Monkeys and Pods... Oh My!: The Special Effects of 'Jumanji'
2000
6.9
The X-Files
1998
7.5
The Making of ‘Tremors’
1998
6.2
Alien Resurrection
1997
7.1
Starship Troopers
1997
7.2
Jumanji
1995
6.5
The Santa Clause
1994
6.2
Stay Tuned
1992
6.9
Tremors
1990
6.0
Leviathan
1989
6.7
The Monster Squad
1987
8.0
Aliens
1986
6.1
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1984
5.3
Galaxy of Terror
1981
NR
Fleshing Out the Hollow Man
—NR
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