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Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Ray Berwick was born on 21 August 1914 in Texas, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Birds (1963), Gremlins (1984) and Damien: Omen II (1978). He was married to Suzanne Lindsey Gamron and Maxine Ina Forman. He died on 2 July 1990 in Westlake Village, California, USA. Born August 21, 1914.
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- August 21, 1914
- Ray Berwick
- July 2, 1990
Jul 5, 1990 · Ray Berwick, Hollywood animal trainer who put 25,000 animals through their paces for films like “The Birds” and “Birdman of Alcatraz,” has died. He was 75. Berwick died Monday night at the...
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The initial plan for the scenes of bird attacks was to use artificial birds with motorized wings, and the studio sank over $200,000 (over $2 million in today's money) into building them. But after testing, it became clear that the mechanical birds looked completely fake on screen, so the plan had to be scrapped. Instead, animal trainer Ray Berwick ...
Co-star Rod Taylor claimed in a 1998 interview with Hello Magazine that the trainers fed the gulls wheat mixed with whiskey to make them more docile. "The only reason those birds stayed still was because they were drunk!" he exclaimed. "They couldn't get away with it now." The crew indeed admitted to tranquilizing the gulls perched on top of the ho...
The birds weren't the only hazards for Tippi Hedren on set. While rocky relationships between directors and actors are nothing new, according to Hedren, Alfred Hitchcock's nonstop harassment left her, in her own words, "in a mental prison." Hitchcock signed Hedren to a seven-year contract after seeing her in only a single TV commercial. At the time...
The day after Hitchcock's alleged assault was the filming of the scene in which Hedren's character Melanie is trapped inside a phone booth while dozens of birds fling themselves at the glass, trying to attack her. The glass was supposed to be shatterproof, but after the third mechanical bird hit it at high velocity, it exploded into tiny fragments,...
Over the next week, handlers wearing elbow-length protective gauntlets literally hurled live birds at her for eight hours straight. The birds had been trained to peck her and, since they'd so recently been caught from the wild, needed no encouragement to do so. "It was brutal and ugly and relentless," she recalls in her memoir. Cary Grant, who was ...
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- Alfred Hitchcock
Mini Bio. Ray Berwick was born on August 21, 1914 in Texas, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Birds (1963), Gremlins (1984) and Damien: Omen II (1978). He was married to Suzanne Lindsey Gamron and Maxine Ina Forman. He died on July 2, 1990 in Westlake Village, California, USA.
Jul 3, 1990 · LOS ANGELES -- Ray Berwick, a pioneer bird trainer for the motion picture industry whose credits include the Alfred Hitchock thriller 'The Birds,' died of a heart attack. He was 75. Berwick,...
Aug 12, 2022 · Despite her understandable shock, Hedren "trusted the expertise" of bird trainer Ray Berwick, but also acknowledged that not even he could anticipate an animal's next move and control it during...
Jan 5, 2022 · The film took six months to shoot, and bird trainer Ray Berwick (who also worked on the set of “Birdman of Alcatraz”) was brought in to oversee approximately 500 live ravens, crows, gulls, and ...
