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and began working on special effects for motion pictures. He has been the special effects coordinator
and/or supervisor on more than 60 films and has been honored with Academy Award ® nominations for
“Twister,” “Armageddon,” “The Perfect Storm,” “Pearl Harbor” and “Spider-Man,” before finally winning
in 2005 for “Spider-Man 2.” He was nominated once again in 2006 for his work on “Poseidon.”
Frazier also won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for “The Perfect
Storm” and “Twister.” Additionally, he received two Clio Awards for his work in TV commercials. He
currently resides in Southern California.
ALLEN HALL (Special Effects Supervisor) shared the 2006 Academy Award ® for his work on
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” with colleagues John Knoll, Charles Gibson and Hal
Hickel. Hall also won an Oscar ® for his groundbreaking work on Robert Zemeckis’ “Forrest Gump” and
was nominated for Ron Howard’s “Backdraft” and Ron Underwood’s “Mighty Joe Young.” “Forrest
Gump” also won Hall a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award, with “Backdraft”
receiving a nomination.
Hall’s numerous credits as special effects coordinator or supervisor have included such notable films
as “Popeye,” “Top Gun,” “The Untouchables,” “Scrooged,” “Dead Poets Society,” “Avalon,” “For the
Boys,” “Cutthroat Island,” “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” “Contact,” “Babe: Pig in the City,” “U-571,” “Dr.
Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Road to Perdition,” “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,”
“Constantine” and “Elizabethtown.”
GEORGE MARSHALL RUGE (Stunt Coordinator) returns following his thrilling work on both
“Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” which won him an American Choreography
Award, and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” for which he is a current nominee for the
Taurus World Stunt Awards as Best Second Unit Director and Best Stunt Coordinator. Ruge was the Stunt
Coordinator/Action Designer on Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which included some of
the most ambitious and complex action sequences in motion-picture history. He was also Stunt
Coordinator and Second Unit Director on Jerry Bruckheimer’s production of the action hit “National
Treasure” and performs the same tasks on “National Treasure: Book of Secrets.”
Born in San Francisco, Ruge studied theatre arts and acting while working as an actor in Bay Area
theatre, film and television productions, he also directed plays for The Loft Theatre Group, of which he
is a founding member. The company produced several original plays while Ruge was in residence.
Ruge then turned his attention to film and relocated to Los Angeles to pursue those interests. Since
that time, Ruge has performed in numerous feature-film productions, among them “Come See the
Paradise,” “L.A. Story,” “The Doors,” “The Mask of Zorro,” “Chaplin,” “Barfly,” “Mars Attacks!,”
“George of the Jungle,” “Conspiracy Theory,” “City of Angels,” “Bulworth,” “Lethal Weapon 4,”
“Swordfish,” “Gattaca,” and “The Limey,” among many others. He has portrayed longtime hero Basil
Rathbone in the biographical telefilm chronicling Errol Flynn’s life, “My Wicked, Wicked Ways.” Ruge
also dueled with Peter O’Toole in “My Favorite Year,” playing the role of Lord Drummond opposite
O’Toole’s Robin Hood characterization.
On television, Ruge has guest-starred in numerous telefilms and episodes of such series as “Knots
Landing,” “Wizards and Warriors,” “Quantum Leap,” “Tour of Duty,” “Renegade,” “SeaQuest DSV,”
“Walker, Texas Ranger,” “V.I.P.,” “Chicago Hope,” “Columbo,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Murder She
Wrote,” “The Enemy Within” and “Nash Bridges.”
Ruge was the recipient of the Bank of America Drama Award for Acting and the Drama Circle Critics
Award for Best Actor in a dramatic play and garnered a Stuntman’s Award for Best Fight Sequence in a
Motion Picture. Ruge has served two elected terms, in 1996 and in 2000, as President of the Stuntman’s
Association of Motion Pictures before leaving that organization to pursue other creative interests,
including the formation of his own independent film production company, Rolling Fog Productions,
which currently has one film in production and several others in development.
Ruge is a published poet and has written several screenplays.
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