KENT HOUSTON Visual Effects Supervisor
SELECT CREDITS DIRECTORS STUDIO/PRODUCTION
“BEN-HUR” * TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV MGM
“DA VINCI’S DEMONS” (s2) JON JONES, PETER HOAR STARZ Additional Supervision – 5 Episodes JUSTIN MOLOTNIKOV BBC WORLDWIDE
“THE LOVERS” aka “SINGULARITY” ROLAND JOFFE CORSAN VFX Consultant
“MY WEEK WITH MARYILYN” SIMON CURTIS THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY VFX Consultant
“GREEN LANTERN” * MARTIN CAMPBELL WARNER BROTHERS
“EDGE OF DARKNESS” MARTIN CAMPBELL WARNER BROTHERS
“THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR TERRY GILLIAM INFINITY FEATURES ENTERTAINMENT PARNASSUS” VFX Consultant
“THE INTERNATIONAL” TOM TYKWER COLUMBIA PICTURES VFX Consultant
“PUSH” PAUL MCGUIGAN SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
“THE GOLDEN COMPASS” CHRIS WEITZ NEW LINE CINEMA VFX Consultant (Peerless Camera Company)
“CASINO ROYALE” MARTIN CAMPBELL COLUMBIA PICTURES VFX Consultant (Peerless Camera Company)
“HALF LIGHT” CRAIG ROSENBERG LAKESHORE ENTERTAINMENT VFX 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
“THE FISHER KING” TERRY GILLIAM COLUMBIA PICTURES
“THE ADVENTURES OF BARON TERRY GILLIAM COLUMBIA PICTURES MANCHAUSEN” Academy Award Nomination BAFTA Award Nomination
“WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT” ROBERT ZEMECKIS TOUCHSTONE PICTURES VFX Supervisor – Animation Tests (UC) AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT
“THE PRINCESS BRIDE” ROB REINER TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Matte Supervisor
“LEGEND” RIDLEY SCOTT UNIVERSAL PICTURES
“BRAZIL” TERRY GILLIAM UNIVERSAL PICTURES Optical 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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NOTABLE: Kent began in the industry in 1974 as an animation cameraman for Bob Godfrey. Through Bob, Kent met a young Director/Designer/Actor/Animator, Terry Gilliam, and a near 40 year collaboration began with Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In 1976 Kent and Gilliam founded the Peerless Camera Company. Peerless soon became a leading visual effects house and was the first European company to offer Flame and Inferno. A further collaboration with Gilliam was acquiring part-ownership of the Computer Film Company, a business which became a world leader in digital image manipulation for the film industry, responsible for designing amongst other things, the Northlight film scanner and Keylight compositing software. His CFC interest was eventually sold and the Computer Film Company was historically purchased by Framestore. Kent continues to oversee a thriving Peerless Camera Company (www.peerless.co.uk) while additionally working as a freelance Visual Effects Supervisor.
HONORABLE AWARD: BKSTS PRESIDENTS AWARD – March 2015: British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society
CITIZENSHIP/RESIDENCY: New Zealand Citizenship. Resident of London.
Additional Television and Commercial Credits available upon request.