Ralph Macquarie, the artist who helped George Lucas bring Stars Wars to the big screen, has died aged 82. Born
in Gary, Indiana, Macquarie began his career as a technical illustrator
for aero plane maker Boeing and designing film posters. He was hired by
Lucas to design a number of of the characters and scenes for his space
opera Star Wars In 1975.
His rewards included an uncredited role in the sequel The Empire Strikes
Back, as General Pharl Macquarie, and his own action figure. Macquarie
also designed the alien spaceships in Steven Spielberg's Close
Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.According to Lucas His genial
contribution, in the form of unequalled production paintings, propelled
and inspired all of the cast and crew of the original Star Wars trilogy.
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