Alec Gillis
Acting
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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.
Filmography
Cringe
2025
Eulogy to Us
2023
Prey
2022
Oats Studios: Volume 1
2021
OATS Studios
2021
Witches Midnight
2021
Bad President - Kenya
2020
Tremors: Making Perfection
2020
The Movies That Made Us
2019
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
2019
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
2019
Bad President - All My Sh*t
2017
Bad President - Oil Spill
2017
Cooking with Bill
2017
Rakka
2017
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
2015
The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars'
2015
Leviathan: Monster Melting Pot
2014
Skin Wars
2014
Men in Suits
2012
Astronaut: The Last Push
2012
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
2010
Chiller 13: The Decade's Scariest Movie Moments
2010
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
2009
Monster Squad Forever!
2007
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
2005
Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection
2005
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004
Shooting 'Panic Room'
2004
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
2003
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
Behind the Scenes of 'John Q'
2002
Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'
2002
Starship Troopers: Know Your Foe
2002
Making Jumanji: The Realm of Imagination
2000
Lions and Monkeys and Pods... Oh My!: The Special Effects of 'Jumanji'
2000
The Making of ‘Tremors’
1998
Alien Resurrection
1997
Aliens
1986
Fleshing Out the Hollow Man