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Kit West

Special Effects Supervisor
6 February 1936 to 16 April 2016

A British special effects supervisor who specialised in mechanical effects, West contributed Oscar-nominated work to Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) and DragonHeart (1996). He won an Oscar for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and was awarded a Visual Effects BAFTA for Return of the Jedi (1983), on which he oversaw the robots.

Read Kit West's Telegraph obituary here