Robert Swarthe

American film director
Robert Swarthe
Born (1942-09-06) September 6, 1942 (age 81)
OccupationSpecial effects artist
Years active1968-1983

Robert Swarthe (born September 6, 1942) is a special effects artist who started out directing short films. He has two Academy Award nominations.

Academy Award nominations

  • 48th Academy Awards – Nominated in the category of Best Animated short, Kick Me, lost to Great.[1][2]
  • 52nd Academy Awards – Nominated in the category of Best Visual Effects, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, nomination shared with John Dykstra, Grant McCune, David K. Stewart, Douglas Trumbull and Richard Yuricich. Lost to Alien.[3]

Preservation

The Academy Film Archive preserved Kick Me and The Unicycle Race by Swarthe.[4]

Filmography

As director

  • Uncle Walt (1964)[5]
  • The Unicycle Race (1966)
  • K-9000: A Space Oddity (1968)[6] with Robert Mitchell [7]
  • Kick Me (1975)

As special effects artist

In addition he appeared in a making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind video in 2001.

See also

  • Norman Mclaren
  • Drawn on film

References

  1. ^ "The 48th Academy Awards (1976) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  2. ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1975 -". cartoonresearch.com.
  3. ^ "The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  4. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
  5. ^ Mouseplanet - Disney Cartoons That Aren't Disney by Wade Simpson
  6. ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1968 -". cartoonresearch.com.
  7. ^ Robert Mitchell on IMDB

External links

  • Robert Swarthe at IMDb
  • Robert Swarthe at Memory Alpha
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  • VIAF
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