A. Arnold Gillespie(1899-1978)

A. Arnold Gillespie was born on 14 October 1899 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He is known for Ben-Hur (1959), The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Forbidden Planet (1956). He was married to Nell Hill, Ruth Elder and Dora Ingram. He died on 3 May 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

8.1

Movie

8.1

Movie

7.5

Movie

8.3

Movie

The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.6
- special visual effects
- 1965
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
6.6
- special visual effects
- 1964
The Prize
6.8
- special visual effects
- 1963
Billy Rose's Jumbo
6.1
- special visual effects
- 1962
Mutiny on the Bounty
7.2
- special visual effects
- 1962
How the West Was Won
7.1
- special visual effects
- 1962
The Horizontal Lieutenant
5.9
- special visual effects
- 1962
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
6.5
- special visual effects
- 1962
Ben-Hur
8.1
- special photographic effects
- 1959
Run Silent Run Deep
7.3
- special photographic effects (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1958
Three Wise Fools
6.5
- transparency projection shots (uncredited)
- 1946
Easy to Wed
6.1
- transparency projection shots (uncredited)
- 1946
Bad Bascomb
6.8
- transparency projection shots (uncredited)
- 1946
Two Sisters from Boston
6.6
- transparency projection shots (uncredited)
- 1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
7.4
- miniatures
- transparency projection shots (uncredited)
- 1946

Captains Courageous
7.9
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1937
The Good Earth
7.5
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1937
San Francisco
7.1
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1936
Speed
5.7
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1936
Small Town Girl
6.5
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1936
Last of the Pagans
6.0
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
7.6
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1935
Naughty Marietta
6.5
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1935
Evelyn Prentice
6.9
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1934
Student Tour
5.1
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1934
The Girl from Missouri
6.6
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1934
Operator 13
5.9
- associate art director (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1934
The Crowd
8.1
- settings (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1928
Buttons
- sets (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1927
London After Midnight
6.7
- settings (as Arnold Gillespie)
- 1927

Trivia
His career at MGM was so long that he worked on the original Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) and its remake Ben-Hur (1959) and the original Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and its remake Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).

Quotes
[on filming 'San Francisco'] The big-theater-nightclub set for this picture, in which Miss McDonald warbled her lovely lyric soprano, occupied all of Stage 12 at MGM. There had been some argument about the destructive movement of an earthquake. I supported the 'horizontal' theory, while others insisted that it was the vertical 'rolling-ups-and-downs' which caused the damage. An expert from California Polytechinc College in Pasadena was contacted, and I won. In fact, he commented that our 'schematic' for the set actually represented the very kind of an 'earthquake table' upon which, in small scale, Cal Tech experiments were conducted.