Richard Edlund (born 1940), American special effects cinematographer
His daughter, Rita, lives in Southern California and is married to Richard Edlund, founder of Boss Film Studios and an Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor.
Aside from film-work, Edlund also developed and manufactured the Pignose portable-style guitar amplifier (co-designed by Wayne Kimball).
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Following the completion of the original Star Wars films with Return of the Jedi, Edlund set up his own effects company, Boss Films, whose credits include Ghostbusters.
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On the strength of a couple of short films he was picked by John Dykstra to work as first cameraman at the embryonic Industrial Light & Magic on the production of the first of the Star Wars films for which he shared an Academy Award.
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