Acting credits
10
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Ken Ralston
Visual Effects
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.4
Low visibility
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Movies: 32Series: 2Crew credits: 25
TMDB ID: 42269
IMDb ID: nm0707822
Known for: Visual Effects
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1982 - 2022
Years active: 41
Average TMDB rating: 6.99
Wikidata: Q8728
Other jobs
Visual Effects Supervisor (17)Senior Visual Effects Supervisor (3)Second Unit Director (1)Thanks (1)VFX Supervisor (1)Visual Effects Coordinator (1)Visual Effects Design Consultant (1)
Biography
Kenneth Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, visual effects supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his career at the commercial animation and visual effects company Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s. In 1976, Dennis Muren hired him at Industrial Light & Magic to help George Lucas create the effects for Star Wars. He remained at ILM for 20 years before joining Sony Pictures Imageworks as president. Ralston is best known for his work in the films of Robert Zemeckis. Ralston has won five Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, including a Special Achievement Academy Award for the visual effects in Return of the Jedi (1983), and regular awards for his work on Cocoon (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992) and Forrest Gump (1994). He was nominated three more times for Dragonslayer (1981), Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Ken Ralston.
Visual Effects Supervisor
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016 • Movie
as Self
Star Wars: Greatest Moments
2015 • Movie
as Self
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
2012 • Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor
Men in Black 3
2012 • Movie
as Himself
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
2010 • Movie
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
Alice in Wonderland
2010 • Movie
Visual Effects Design Consultant
Beowulf
2007 • Movie
VFX Supervisor
The Polar Express
2004 • Movie
as Self
When Star Wars Ruled the World
2004 • Movie
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
Men in Black II
2002 • Movie
Visual Effects Coordinator
America's Sweethearts
2001 • Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor
Cast Away
2000 • Movie
as Self
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
1999 • Movie
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
Contact
1997 • Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor
Phenomenon
1996 • Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor
Jumanji
1995 • Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor
The American President
1995 • Movie
as Self
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994 • Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor
Forrest Gump
1994 • Movie
Second Unit Director
Death Becomes Her
1992 • Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor
The Rocketeer
1991 • Movie
as Self
Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air
1991 • Movie
as Self
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
1990 • Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor
Back to the Future Part III
1990 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Ken Ralston.
