He operated several visual effects companies in Hollywood over the years, including Excelsior Productions and Centaur Productions; the latter teamed with fellow effects artist Wah Ming Chang. Gene died of cancer on July 17, 1997, in Los Angeles.
His son, Gene Warren Jr., owned Fantasy II Film Effects and won an Academy Award for visual effects on Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Gene Warren Jr. died on November 28, 2019.[1]
Professional memberships
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
American Youth Symphony Society
Producers Guild of America
He was also an honorary member of Science Fiction Fantasy International and Fantasy Film Fans International.
Awards
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Special Effects Award The Time Machine
George Pal/MGM
Parents Magazine
Best Children's Show The Tool Box
Excelsior!Amp/ABC-TV
Georges Melies Hall of Fame The Seven Faces of Doctor Lao
George Pal/MGM
Georges Melies Hall of Fame The Time Machine
George Pal/MGM
Art Directors & Artists Club of San Francisco Billfold
Excelsior!Amp/Daniel Lewis Adv
Western Advertisers Association Chuck Wagon-Farm
Excelsior!Amp/Gardner Adv
Writer/Producer/Associate Producer/Director
Theatrical film Starflight One - Writer
Television series Land of the Lost (Pilot + 45 episodes) - Writer/Producer
Shorts The Tool Box Susy Snowflake Santa and the Three Dwarfs Land of the Midnight Sun
Documentary & training films Mariner I Mariner III Apollo
Television commercials
Over 1200 commercials primarily for national prestige accounts and featuring such specialized concepts as The Pillsbury Dough Boy and Ralston-Purina's Chuck Wagon.
Production Designer/Special Effects Director/2nd Unit Director
Theatrical film The French Atlantic Affair Meteor Avalanche Black Sunday McNamara's Band Satan's School for Girls My Name is John The Power 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (Academy Special Effects Nomination) Wonderful Worlds of the Brothers Grimm The Time Machine (Two Academy Special Effects Awards) Tom Thumb (Academy Special Effects Award) Around the World Under the Sea Atlantis, The Lost Continent Master of the World The Lost Balloon Jack the Giant Killer Voyage to the 7th Planet McHale's Navy That Funny Feeling Goliath and the Dragon Spartacus The Warlords The King and I Andromeda Strain Can Can The One With the Fuzz Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Crow
Television series The Man from Atlantis (Four two-hour episodes and 13 one-hour episodes) Star Trek (Pilot and miscellany) Outer Limits (Pilot and 45 episodes) Twilight Zone (Pilot and 6 episodes)
