Carlo Rambaldi (born 1925 in Vigarano Mainarda, Italy) is an Italian-born special effects artist who is most famous for designing the title character of the 1982 super-smash hit "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and the mechanical head-effects for the creature in "Alien". Rambaldi has also worked on "Profondo Rosso (Deep Red)" (1975), "King Kong" (1976), "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), "Dune" (1984), … Wikipedia
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