Roy Seawright

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Roy Seawright (November 19, 1905, in Los Angeles, California – April 30, 1991, in

special effects technician, principally with Hal Roach Studios
.

Biography

Seawright's father was the chief

Culver City studios. He died in 1919 during a construction accident during the building of the complex. Roy joined Roach initially as a mail boy and errand boy in 1920.[1]

Seawright worked his way up to casting director, then the Property Department, and later became the head of Roach's animation studio.

toy soldiers
marching to attack the Bogeymen.

Credited as head of the Process Department in 1937, some of Seawright's most famous work was in Topper Takes a Trip[2] and One Million B.C. where his dinosaur footage was recycled countless times in many lesser films. Seawright was nominated for an Oscar three times in succession for the latter two films and Topper Returns.[3]

During World War II, Seawright was commissioned a Major in the

The Big Cat and Port of New York
.

Seawright entered a partnership with former Warner Brothers cartoon writer Dave Monahan as his director of photography.

Seawright and his wife Bernice "Bunny" Seawright were

Hermosa Beach's Seawright Tourney in 1968.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Roy Seawright".
  2. ^ "Popular Science". April 1939.
  3. ^ p.98 Hermosa Beach Historical Society Hermosa Beach 2005 Aracadia Publishing
  4. ^ "Seawright Tourney". Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2009-07-05.

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