Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1959-08-29 (Age: 67)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Alec Gillis
Biography
Alec Dougal Gillis is an Academy Award-winning American special effects artist and actor who served as part of the creature effects crew on the 1986 film Aliens, the 1992 film Alien3, the 1997 film Alien Resurrection, the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator, the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and the 2018 film The Predator. He also appeared in a cameo as an unnamed technician in Alien vs. Predator, although he was not credited for the role. In 1988, Gillis co-founded Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI) with Tom Woodruff, Jr., and the company has since provided creature effects for Alien3, Alien Resurrection, Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Gillis's work has won an Academy Award for Visual Effects (for Death Becomes Her, although he was not listed on the official nomination) and a BAFTA. For his work on Alien3, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects, a BAFTA and a Saturn Award.
Filmography (32)
Cringe
2025
Eulogy to Us
2023
Prey
2022
Oats Studios: Volume 1
2021
Witches Midnight
2021
Bad President - Kenya
2020
Tremors: Making Perfection
2020
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
2019
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
2019
Bad President - Oil Spill
2017
Bad President - All My Sh*t
2017
Rakka
2017
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
2015
The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars'
2015
