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1 Video. 2 Photos. Jon Berg is known for Aquaman (2018), Wonder Woman (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019). More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info. Resume. Add to list. Photos. Known for. Aquaman. 6.8. Producer. 2018. Wonder Woman. 7.3. Producer. 2017. Doctor Sleep. 7.3. Producer (p.g.a.) 2019. Elf. 7.1. Producer. 2003. Credits. Producer21.
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Jon Berg is a special-effects artist and occasional actor for the Star Wars saga. He appeared as an actor in the cantina scene for Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (1977).
Berg became fascinated by special effects in movies since he saw Ernest B. Schoedsack's Mighty Joe Young (1949), featuring master technician Ray Harryhausen's effects.
Berg began working for Cascade Pictures producing TV commercials. This company also hired Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett, both of whom would eventually work for Industrial Light & Magic.
Working as production assistant, Berg went to the set of Jack Hill and Juan Ibáñez's House of Evil (1968), a Mexican-American production, where he had a chance to meet horror star and his personal idol Boris Karloff. Berg retains a fond memory of this meeting.
Berg's first confirmed job was uncredited: He worked on sci-fi B-movie The Further Adventures of Major Mars (1976), and then as miniature builder for The Crater Lake Monster (1977), although this time he was credited, alongside colleague Tippett.
Berg worked as a stop-motion animator, as Harryhausen did before him, for Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (1977). He moved different creatures, especially in the famous cantina scene, and he was also supposed to act as different aliens. Although uncredited, he is known to have played Momaw Nadon, the "Hammerhead"; and also one of the arguing Duros. He may have played one of the cantina band members, particularly Tech Mo'r, the ommni box player; however, this role is unconfirmed and even today a polemic question among experts.
Berg continued with science-fiction and horror films in the late 1970s, being credited as the only visual-effects artist (model sculptor) for Michael Rae's Laserblast (1978) and as the only special-effects artist in Joe Dante's Piranha (1978). In the latter movie, he worked with special-effects legend Chris Walas.
•Star Wars Insider 49 Interview: "Jon Berg: The Stop-Motion Animation of Episode V," pages 68–69
•"Creature Creator" — Star Wars Insider 147
•Jon Berg at the Internet Movie Database
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Feb 23, 2024 · In honor of the film’s release, Berg generously took the time recently to talk about producing the project during an interview over Zoom. Film Factual (FF): You served as one of the producers the new drama, ‘Ordinary Angels,’ which was written by Kelly Fremon Craig and Meg Tilly.
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Photos. Known for. The Fly. 7.6. Additional Crew (C.W.I.) 1986. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. 8.6. Visual Effects (miniature and optical effects unit) 1977. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. 7.6. Visual Effects. 2005. Ghostbusters. 7.8. Visual Effects (EEG) 1984. Credits. Visual Effects11.
