Harrison Ellenshaw

Harrison Ellenshaw (born Peter Samuel Ellenshaw, July 20, 1945, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American matte painter, following his British father Peter Ellenshaw. He started his career at Walt Disney Studios. He higher joined George Lucas's effects studio Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), where he produced many of the matte visual effects backgrounds for the films Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). He then returned to Disney to work upon the film Dick Tracy (1990), and eventually headed Disney Studio's effects department, Buena Vista Visual Effects (BVVE). He was as a consequence visual effects bureaucrat for Tron (1982), where he had the distinction of swine the first person to have that description in a film.

He and his dad were nominated for an Academy Award for their work on Disney's film The Black Hole (1979).

Harrison Ellenshaw is now pursuing his passion for Good art painting.

His son Michael Ellenshaw has directed a unexpected film though his sister Lynda Thompson is furthermore a visual effects artist.