Isidoro Rapon, a renowned mechanical effects expert who helped design, build and operate Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic ET, and worked on films such as king kong alien s Third type of close encounters, died. He was 76 years old.
Rapon died Friday of congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles rehab center, a Disney publicist said.
Raponi also created several dinosaurs seen at Disney. Child: The Secret of the Lost Legend (1985). In this film, the creatures iban from the title until a young man (inside the gum costume of a human artist, using a remote control to make his expressions and movements) until a brontosaurio that works mechanically and measures 70 feet wide and 25 feet width.
Rapon collaborated with Martin Scorsese New York gangs (2002) and Aviator (2004) and with Frank Darabont green mile (1999) and Shawshank Rescue (1994) and processed effects and accessories Hall (1987), In Search of Red October (nineteen ninety), Godfather: Part III (nineteen ninety), one from the air force (1997), doctor doolittle (1998) and Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), along with many other films.
Born on June 30, 1945, in Frosinone, Italy, Rapon served with Carlo Rambaldi, the creator of Oscar-winning effects, whose workshop was located opposite the Rapon family’s bookstore.
Rapon was 18 years old when he was hired by Rambaldi in 1963, and for the next 15 years he contributed to popular Italian films.
Isidore Raponi shared the moment with Brontezaurus, who created “Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend”.
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Rapon moved to Los Angeles in 1975 to work on a 1976 remake for producer Dino de Laurentiis. king kong, in which Rambald received an Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement. He then helped Rambald win an Oscar. abroad (1979) and supernatural ET.
In the late 1970s, Raponi worked independently at Walt Disney Studios and provided mechanical effects for films including tron (one thousand nine hundred and eighty-two), something bad is coming this way (1983), my research project (1985) and Boy.
Ray Bradbury for the Disney adaptation something bad is coming this wayRaponi created a series of mechanical tarantulas to appear alongside dozens of real creatures.
He retired in 2008 but returned for his last assignment with Ben Affleck. argo (2012).
The survivors are his wife Nina, 40, and their daughter Tiziana. His son Daniel died in 2007.
A celebration of life is planned for July. Donations can be made to the Daniel Rapon Memorial Fellowship at California State University, Northridge or to the CSUN Foundation, 18111 Nordhoff St. Louis. – Sala Valera 110, Northridge, CA 91330-8296.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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