title: Gene Warren
text: # Gene Warren
  
  Gene Warren Sr. (August 12, 1916 – July 17, 1997) was born in Denver, Colorado, and won an Academy Award for the special effects on George Pal's The Time Machine in 1960. He also contributed to such projects as The Way of Peace (1947), Land of the Lost (1974), Man from Atlantis, and The Crow: City of Angels.
  
  He operated several visual effects companies in Hollywood over the years, including Excelsior Productions and Centaur Productions; the latter teamed with fellow effects artist Wah Ming Chang. Gene died of cancer on July 17, 1997, in Los Angeles.
  
  His son, Gene Warren Jr., owned Fantasy II Film Effects and won an Academy Award for visual effects on Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Gene Warren Jr. died on November 28, 2019.
  
  ## Professional memberships
  
  * Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
  * Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
  * American Youth Symphony Society
  * Producers Guild of America
  
  He was also an honorary member of Science Fiction Fantasy International and Fantasy Film Fans International.
  
  ## Awards
  
  Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Special Effects Award The Time Machine George Pal/MGM
  
  Parents Magazine Best Children's Show The Tool Box Excelsior!Amp/ABC-TV
  
  Georges Melies Hall of Fame The Seven Faces of Doctor Lao George Pal/MGM
  
  Georges Melies Hall of Fame The Time Machine George Pal/MGM
  
  Art Directors & Artists Club of San Francisco Billfold Excelsior!Amp/Daniel Lewis Adv
  
  Western Advertisers Association Chuck Wagon-Farm Excelsior!Amp/Gardner Adv
  
  ## Writer/Producer/Associate Producer/Director
  
  Theatrical film Starflight One - Writer
  
  Television series Land of the Lost (Pilot + 45 episodes) - Writer/Producer
  
  Shorts The Tool Box Susy Snowflake Santa and the Three Dwarfs Land of the Midnight Sun
  
  Documentary & training films Mariner I Mariner III Apollo
  
  Television commercials Over 1200 commercials primarily for national prestige accounts and featuring such specialized concepts as The Pillsbury Dough Boy and Ralston-Purina's Chuck Wagon.
  
  ## Production Designer/Special Effects Director/2nd Unit Director
  
  Theatrical film The French Atlantic Affair Meteor Avalanche Black Sunday McNamara's Band Satan's School for Girls My Name is John The Power 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (Academy Special Effects Nomination) Wonderful Worlds of the Brothers Grimm The Time Machine (Two Academy Special Effects Awards) Tom Thumb (Academy Special Effects Award) Around the World Under the Sea Atlantis, The Lost Continent Master of the World The Lost Balloon Jack the Giant Killer Voyage to the 7th Planet McHale's Navy That Funny Feeling Goliath and the Dragon Spartacus The Warlords The King and I Andromeda Strain Can Can The One With the Fuzz Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Crow
  
  Television series The Man from Atlantis (Four two-hour episodes and 13 one-hour episodes) Star Trek (Pilot and miscellany) Outer Limits (Pilot and 45 episodes) Twilight Zone (Pilot and 6 episodes)
  
  ## Documentaries
  
  Gene Warren appeared in the George Pal documentary titled The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985) (produced and directed by Arnold Leibovit).
  
  Mr. Warren was a guest in the documentary Time Machine: The Journey Back (1993) Produced and Directed by Clyde Lucas
  
  