Name
Phil Tippett
Known For
Visual Effects
Birthday
1951-09-27 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Berkeley, California
Biography
Phil Tippett is an American filmmaker and multi-award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, specializing in creature design, stop-motion, and computerized character animation. Over his career, he has assisted ILM, DreamWorks, and his own company Tippet Studios, with his work appearing in movies such as the original Star Wars trilogy, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop.
Known For
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Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully funct...
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Bella Swan and Edward Cullen's honeymoon phase is abruptly disrupted by betrayals and unfo...
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After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect th...
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A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from...
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The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire,...
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Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threa...
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Three years after Jurassic World was destroyed, Isla Nublar now sits abandoned. When the i...
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After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical ...
- 1977 Star Wars as Cantina Alien (uncredited)
- 1978 Piranha as Scuba Diver (uncredited)
- 1983 From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga as Self
- 2022 Slice! as Phil
- 2022 Jurassic Punk as Self
- 1997 The Making of 'DragonHeart' as Self
- Soon Inside the Federation as Self
- 2017 The Secrets of Sinbad: Phil Tippett on Ray Harryhausen as Himself
- 1999 Virus: Ghost in the Machine as Self
- 2004 Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy as Self
- 2024 Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals as Self
- 2015 Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex as Self
- 2024 A Celebration of Tenacity as Self
- 2015 My Life In Monsters as Himself
- 1983 Return of the Jedi as Rancor
- 2017 Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2' as Self
- 2006 The Sci-Fi Boys as Self
- 2016 Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey as Self
- 2012 Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan as Self
- 2006 American Scary as Himself
- 1995 The Making of 'Jurassic Park' as Self
- 2007 Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 as Self
- 2019 The Creative Brain as Self
- 1983 Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi as Self
- 2001 Flesh + Steel: The Making of 'RoboCop' as Himself
- 2019 Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters as Self
- 2011 Return to Jurassic Park as Self
- 1988 Willow: The Making of an Adventure as Self - Visual Effects
- 2020 Star Wars : La Révolution Visuelle
- 2022 In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee
- 2020 Making Magic: The Artistry of Karel Zeman
- 2006 Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet as Self
- 1980 The Making of The Empire Strikes Back as Self
- 2013 Worse Than the Demon as himself
- 2008 RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World” as Self
- 2025 Why Dinosaurs? as Self
- 2005 Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection as Self
- Soon Yub-Nub! The Forgotten Ewok Adventures as Self
- Soon Howard the Doc or: How I Learned to Start Quacking and Love the Bomb as Self
- 1980 SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back as Self
- 2007 Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 as Self
- Soon Fleshing Out the Hollow Man as Self
- 2002 Starship Troopers: Know Your Foe as Self
- 2019 The Movies That Made Us ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2023 RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2014 The Real History of Science Fiction ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2022 Icons Unearthed: Star Wars ( 6 episodes ) as Self - Miniature & Optical Effects Unit
- 2019 The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 LIGHT & MAGIC ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 LIGHT & MAGIC ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Creatures and Stop Motion
- 2022 LIGHT & MAGIC ( 1 episode ) as Self - Model Shop
- 2022 LIGHT & MAGIC ( 1 episode ) as Self - Creatures and Stop Motion (archive footage)
