ABSTRACT
Jim Danforth (born in 1940) was one of the leading traditional American stop-motion animators and visual effects directors. He animated big parts of Jack the Giant Killer (1961), did most of the dragon sequence in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962), the Beetle Man (and matte art) for Flesh Gordon (1973), and Pegasus for Ray Harryhausen's final movie, Clash of the Titans (1981). He was twice nominated for an Academy Award: for Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) and Hammer-Seven Arts' When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1971). Ray tended to be very broad in his characterizations, except with the Troglodyte in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. Dave Allen did some of the animation of the baby Dinosaur in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, and Randy Cook did most of the animation of the tyrannosaur in Caveman.
