Much-respected figure in visual effects was also known for work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Tree of Life
The pioneering visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull, best known for his work on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, has died at the age of 79.
His death was announced by his daughter Amy Trumbull, in which she said the “absolute genius and a wizard” died on Monday after “a major two-year battle with
cancer, a brain tumor and a stroke”.