Richard Edlund

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Light & Magic (2022–2025)

Richard Edlund was born on 6 December 1940 in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. He is a producer, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Species (1995).

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8.6

5.9

8.7

Barely Lethal
5.4
- visual effects supervisor: duMonde VFX
- 2015
Bullet to the Head
5.7
- visual effects supervisor
- 2012
21 Jump Street
7.2
- visual effects supervisor: DuMonde Visual Effects
- 2012
Charlie Wilson's War
7.0
- visual effects supervisor
- 2007
Anamorph
5.5
- senior visual effects supervisor
- 2007
The Stepford Wives
5.4
- visual effects consultant: Tippett Studio
- 2004
Angels in America
8.1
TV Mini Series
- visual effects supervisor
- 2003
Bedazzled
6.1
- visual effects supervisor
- 2000
Desperate Measures
6.1
- visual effects plate supervisor: Boss Film Studios
- 1998
Air Force One
6.5
- visual effects supervisor
- 1997
Turbulence
5.0
- visual effects co-supervisor: Boss Film Studios
- 1997
Multiplicity
6.2
- visual effects supervisor: Boss Film Studios
- 1996
Species
5.9
- visual effects supervised by
- 1995
Tales from the Crypt
8.0
TV Series
- producer: opening sequence, Boss Film Studios
- producer: opening sequence
- 1989–1995
Alien³
6.4
- visual effects produced by
- visual effects supervisor: Boss Film Studios
- 1992

Trivia
He was a key member of George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a company that has become a Hollywood powerhouse of cutting-edge film technology. In 1981 he and ILM won two Scientific and Engineering Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the development of the Empire motion picture camera system and a beam-splitter optical composite motion picture printer.