David Watkins

Highlighted works

Gandhi

The icon of India’s independence movement was described in newsreels as “the little man”, but the ambition and scale of Richard Attenborough’s biopic are nothing short of colossal.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The third instalment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’s adventure series influenced by Saturday morning serials is also the most light-hearted.
Alien

The crew of mining spaceship Nostromo answer an apparent distress signal and find themselves with an unwanted passenger, in Ridley Scott’s breakthrough sci-fi horror.
2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick took science fiction cinema in a grandly intelligent new direction with this epic story of man’s quest for knowledge.

Filmography

2020

The Midnight Sky

Special Effects Supervisor
2020

Artemis Fowl

SFX Supervisor
2019

All Is True

Absolute Effects UK Ltd (SFX Supervisor)
2018

Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald

Special Effects Supervisor
2017

Life

Special Effects Supervisor
2017

Murder on the Orient Express

Special Effects Supervisor
2016

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Special Effects Supervisor
2016

The Legend of Tarzan

Special Effects Supervisor
2016

Inferno

Special Effects Supervisor
2015

Cinderella

Special Effects Supervisor
2014

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Special Effects Supervisor
2013

World War Z

Special Effects Supervisor
2010

How Do You Know

Special Effects Co-ordinator
2010

Step up 3D

Special Effects
2010

Clash of the Titans

Special Effects Floor Supervisor (2nd U)
2009

Surviving Evil

[For] Neil Courbould Special Effects
2008

Defiance

Senior Special Effects Technician
2007

The Kingdom

Special Effects S'visor (Abu Dhabi Unit)
2004

The Day after Tomorrow

Special Effects Senior Technician
2004

King Arthur

Special Effects (Senior Technician)
2003

Timeline

Special Effects Technician (2nd Unit)
2002

One Small Leap

Special Effects Supervisor
2002

Black Hawk Down

Special Effects (Lead Technician)
2002

Die Another Day

Special Effects Crew
2001

Ali

Special Effects (Co-ordinator)
2000

Gladiator

Special Effects
1999

Entrapment

2nd U Special Effects (Technician)
1998

Three Seasons

Special Effects
1997

Snow White A Tale of Terror

Special Effects (Floor Supervisor)
1997

The Empire Strikes Back

P/MEU (Senior Effects Technician)
1996

The Quest

Special Effects (Supervisor)
1996

The Sunchaser

Special Effects Co-ordinator
1996

101 Dalmatians

Special Effects (Technician)
1993

U.F.O.

SFX Crew
1992

Tale of a Vampire

Special Effects Supervisor
1989

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Special Effects Floor Supervisor
1989

Mountains of the Moon

Special Effects (Senior Technician)
1988

A Time of Destiny

Special effects supervisor (Yugoslavia)
1987

Taffin

Special effects supervisor
1987

Empire of the Sun

Senior effects supervisor
1986

Shanghai Surprise

Special Effects Supervisor
1986

Biggles

[Special Effects] Senior Technician
1985

Spies like Us

Special effects technician
1985

Return to Oz

Senior Effects Technician
1984

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Floor effects supervisor
1984

Scream for Help

Special Effects
1983

Never Say Never Again

Special Effects Technician
1982

Gandhi

Special Effects Supervisor
1981

Dragonslayer

Special Effects Technician
1980

On the Bridge

Special Effects
1980

Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

Mechanical effects (senior technician)
1979

Alien

Special Effects (Technician)
1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

Blob Artist (uncredited)
1964

Egg Marketing Board: Sheila: No. 2

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