Willis H. O'Brien: Willis H. O'Brien. Additional Crew: King Kong. In 1949, 16 years after his ground-breaking work on the 1933 film "King Kong", Willis O'Brien worked as Chief Technician on another gorilla film for Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Shoedsack titled "Mighty Joe Young". A young Ray Harryhausen would do most of the animation, but O'Brien did come up with the designs for the film. At the 1950 Academy Awards, O'Brien...
Known For: King Kong (Additional Crew), The Beast of Hollow Mountain (Writer(as Willis O'Brien)), The Lost World (Special Effects(uncredited)), Dancing Pirate (Visual Effects)