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Carlo Rambaldi

1925 - 2012

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Carlo Rambaldi (September 15, 1925 – August 10, 2012) was an Italian special effects and makeup effects artist. He was the winner of three Academy Awards: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong and two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 1980 and 1983 for, respectively, Alien (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). He is most famous for his work in those two last mentioned films, that is for the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien and the design of the title character of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlo Rambaldi has received more than 282,014 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Carlo Rambaldi is the 29th most popular pirate (down from 28th in 2019), the 2,821st most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,521st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Pirate.

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Among PIRATES

Among pirates, Carlo Rambaldi ranks 29 out of 29. Before him are Jean Lafitte, Edward Low, Awilda, Roche Braziliano, Cheung Po Tsai, and Grace O'Malley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Carlo Rambaldi ranks 215. Before him are Mike Connors, Robert Mulligan, David Warren, Czesław Kiszczak, Otto Muehl, and Theodore Hall. After him are José Napoleón Duarte, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Bobbejaan Schoepen, Evelyn Berezin, and Francisco Álvarez Martínez. Among people deceased in 2012, Carlo Rambaldi ranks 175. Before him are Pierre Sinibaldi, Rashidi Yekini, Simeon ten Holt, Avraham Adan, Roy Salvadori, and Genichi Taguchi. After him are Jack Klugman, Christian Marin, Harry Carey Jr., Albert George Wilson, Jean Laplanche, and Albert O. Hirschman.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Rambaldi ranks 2,821 out of 5,161. Before him are Giovanni Battista Giraldi (1504), Franciabigio (1484), Federico Lombardi (1942), Jacopo Sadoleto (1477), Gianfranco Parolini (1930), and Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485). After him are Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (-100), Maria Caterina Brignole (1737), Carlo Rossi (1775), Renato Castellani (1913), Gianfranco Ravasi (1942), and Porcius Festus (null).

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Among PIRATES In Italy

Among pirates born in Italy, Carlo Rambaldi ranks 2. Before him are Sextus Pompey (-67).

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