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Walter Matthew Jefferies (August 12, 1921 – July 21, 2003) [1] [2] was an American aviation and mechanical artist, set designer, and writer. He is best known for his work on the original Star Trek television series, where he designed many of the sets and props, including the original Starship Enterprise, and the bridge and sick bay.
- Artist, set designer, writer, flight test engineer
- Walter Matthew Jefferies, August 12, 1921, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Mary Ann
Walter Matthew "Matt" Jefferies, Jr. (12 August 1921 – 21 July 2003; age 81), nicknamed "Jeff" by his family and older brother to fellow Star Trek designer John Jefferies, was the art director and production designer on all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series, including the two pilot episodes, and has done preliminary work as technical consultant on Star Trek: The Motion Picture ...
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Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies was born in 1921, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. From an early age, he became obsessed with flight. During World War II, he was a B-17 co-pilot in Europe and Africa; for his service, he. received the Bronze Star and the Air Medal. After World War II, he. became an illustrator at the Library of Congress. After some freelance.
- Walter M. Jefferies
- July 21, 2003
- August 12, 1921
Matt's Biography - Beyond the Clouds - by Richard L. Jefferies. This beautiful, 326 page, 200+ image, full-color, biography goes beyond Jefferies’ life as an artist. Jefferies was a charming and genteel Southerner whose eventful childhood and love of aviation propelled him to become a high-flying visionary.
Somewhere between the cartoons of the past and the reality of the present, Matt Jefferies had to get at a design of the future. Early Enterprise concept art by Matt Jefferies (Roddenberry Entertainment) In the 1960s, the benchmark for dramatic science fiction was Lost in Space and the popular image of futuristic space travel was the flying ...
Jul 28, 2003 · Matt Jeffries, a film and television art director who created the original ''Star Trek'' starship Enterprise, died here last Monday. He was 82. The cause was a heart attack, said his brother, John ...
Beyond the Clouds: The Lifetime Trek of Walter "Matt" Jefferies, Artist and Visionary is the biography of Star Trek: The Original Series Set Designer/Art Director/Production Designer Walter "Matt" Jefferies. The book was written and published by his by eighteen months younger brother Richard L. Jefferies after the death of the art director in 2003. The book proffers the reader a complete ...
