KENT HOUSTON Visual Effects Supervisor www.peerless.co.uk
SELECT FEATURE CREDITS DIRECTORS STUDIO/PRODUCTION
“THE LOVERS” ROLAND JOFFE CORSAN Visual Effects Consultant
“JUDAS GHOST” SIMON PEARCE FALLING SHADOWS PRODUCTIONS Visual Effects Consultant
“MY WEEK WITH MARYILYN” SIMON CURTIS THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY Visual Effects Consultant (Peerless Camera Company)
“GREEN LANTERN” MARTIN CAMPBELL WARNER BROTHERS
“EDGE OF DARKNESS” MARTIN CAMPBELL WARNER BROTHERS
“THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR TERRY GILLIAM INFINITY FEATURES ENTERTAINMENT PARNASSUS” Visual Effects Consultant
“THE INTERNATIONAL” TOM TYKWER COLUMBIA PICTURES Visual Effects Consultant
“PUSH” PAUL MCGUIGAN SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
“THE GOLDEN COMPASS” CHRIS WEITZ NEW LINE CINEMA Visual Effects Consultant (Peerless Camera Company)
“CASINO ROYALE” MARTIN CAMPBELL COLUMBIA PICTURES Visual Effects Consultant (Peerless Camera Company)
“HALF LIGHT” CRAIG ROSENBERG LAKESHORE ENTERTAINMENT Visual Effects Consultant (Peerless Camera Company)
“THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN” ROGER DONALDSON OLC/RIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT
“THE LEGEND OF ZORRO” MARTIN CAMPBELL COLUMBIA PICTURES
“THE BROTHERS GRIMM” TERRY GILLIAM DIMENSION FILMS
“RACING STRIPES” FREDERIK DU CHAU ALCON ENTERTAINMENT
“BEYOND BORDERS” MARTIN CAMPBELL MANDALAY PICTURES
“VERTICAL LIMIT” MARTIN CAMPBELL COLUMBIA PICTURES BAFTA Award Nomination
“THE DARKEST LIGHT” SIMON BEAUFOY ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND BILLIE ELTRINGHAM
“RUNNING FREE” SERGEY BODROV COLUMBIA PICTURES
“TITUS” JULIE TAYMOR FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES
“ANGELA’S ASHES” ALAN PARKER PARAMOUNT PICTURES
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“FEAR AND LOATHING IN TERRY GILLIAM UNIVERSAL PICTURES LAS VEGAS”
“THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK” RANDALL WALLACE UNITED ARTIST
“FALLEN” GREGORY HOBLIT WARNER BROTHERS
“THE BUTCHER BOY” NEIL JORDAN GEFFEN PICTURES
“THE EDGE” LEE TAMAHORI TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
“THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY” JANE CAMPION GRAMERCY PICTURES POLYGRAM
“SOME MOTHER’S SON” TERRY GEORGE CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT
“LOCH NESS” JOHN HENDERSON ABC/POLYGRAM
“SURVIVING PICASSO” JAMES IVORY WARNER BROTHERS
“MARY REILLY” STEPHEN FREARS SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
“WHITE SQUALL” RIDLEY SCOTT HOLLYWOOD PICTURES
“TWELVE MONKEYS” TERRY GILLIAM UNIVERSAL PICTURES
“THE MADNESS OF NICHOLAS HYTNER THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN COMPANY KING GEORGE”
“IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER” JIM SHERIDAN UNIVERSAL PICTURES
“ARIZONA DREAM” EMIR KUSTURICA WARNER BROTHERS
“THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL” BRIAN HENSON WALT DISNEY PICTURES Visual Effects
“1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE” RIDLEY SCOTT GAUMONT
“HOWARDS END” JAMES IVORY MERCHANT IVORY PRODUCTIONS Optical Effects
“THE FISHER KING” TERRY GILLIAM COLUMBIA PICTURES
“THE ADVENTURES OF BARON TERRY GILLIAM COLUMBIA PICTURES MANCHAUSEN” Academy Award Nomination BAFTA Award Nomination
“THE PRINCESS BRIDE” ROB REINER TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Matte Supervisor
“LEGEND” RIDLEY SCOTT UNIVERSAL PICTURES
“BRAZIL” TERRY GILLIAM UNIVERSAL PICTURES Optical Effects Supervisor/ Title Designer
“MONTY PYTHON’S TERRY JONES UNIVERSAL PICTURES THE MEANING OF LIFE” TERRY GILLIAM Optical Effects
“TIME BANDITS” TERRY GILLIAM HANDMADE FILMS Optical Effects
“MONTY PYTHON’S TERRY JONES HANDMADE FILMS LIFE OF BRIAN” Optical Effects
“MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL” TERRY GILLIAM MICHAEL WHITE PRODUCTIONS Camera Operator TERRY JONES
“GREAT (ISAMBARD KINGDOM BOB GODFREY BRITISH LION FILM CORP. BRUNEL)” Animation Camera
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*Kent has numerous Television and Commercial Credits available upon request.
Citizenship/Residency: New Zealand and UK Citizenship. Primary residency is in London, partial residency in Los Angeles, CA.
Notable: Kent began in the industry in 1971 as an animation cameraman for Bob Godfrey. Following this great start he was soon shooting animation for Director/Designer, Terry Gilliam and collaborating on all of his projects. In 1976 Kent founded (with Gilliam) the Peerless Camera Company. Peerless became quickly established as a leading visual effects house. It was the first European company to offer Flame and Inferno. A further collaboration with Gilliam was the acquiring of a part-ownership of Computer Film Company, a business which became a world leader in digital image manipulation for the motion picture industry, designing amongst other things the Northlight film scanner and Keylight compositing software. The CFC interest was eventually sold and the Computer Film Company was historically purchased by Framestore. Kent continues to oversee a thriving Peerless Camera Company as needed while working as a freelance Visual Effects Supervisor.