Artist, writer, film designer and cartoonist Ron Cobb was born in 1937 in Los Angeles, California. Cobb began his career in the mid 50s as an inbetweener/breakdown artist on the classic Walt Disney animated feature "Sleeping Beauty." Ron was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1960 and served in the Signal Corps during the Vietnam war in 1963. Following...
Visual Effects, Art Department, Miscellaneous Crew
Spouse
Robin Love
Children
Nicky Cobb
Movies
Garbo
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Fact
1
Designed an ecology symbol similar to the Greek letter theta in 1969 and released it to the public domain. The following year, Look magazine incorporated the symbol into an ecology flag that was eventually used by environmentalists throughout the 1970s and which was associated with Earth Day.
2
First came to public attention as a political/editorial cartoonist.
3
Was actually slated to direct E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) when the name was "Night Skies." However, Steven Spielberg got the script rewritten in a more personal format and chose to direct it himself. Cobb was paid $400,000 at the time of "E.T"'s release.
4
1994: Co-founded Rocket Science, an innovative computer entertainment firm.
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Alien Legacy
1999
Video documentary archival material
True Lies
1994
logo designer: Omega Sector
Amazing Stories
1985-1987
TV Series title designer - 45 episodes
Real Genius
1985
laser technology
Back to the Future
1985
consultant: DeLorean time travel
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Southland Tales
2006
conceptual artist
Firefly
2002
TV Series conceptual artist
The 6th Day
2000
assistant art director
Titan A.E.
2000
conceptual artist
Space Truckers
1996
conceptual artist
Total Recall
1990
conceptual artist
Robot Jox
1989
conceptual designer - uncredited
The Abyss
1989
conceptual designer
Meet the Hollowheads
1989
conceptual designer / visual consultant
Amazing Stories
1986
TV Series main title design - 1 episode
Aliens
1986
conceptual designer
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
production artist
Alien
1979
concept artist
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1977
conceptual creature designer - uncredited
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine
1994
Video Game
Leviathan
1989
The Last Starfighter
1984
Conan the Barbarian
1982
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine
1994
Video Game story
The Twilight Zone
TV Series story by - 1 episode, 1987 teleplay by - 1 episode, 1987
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Garbo
1992
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Conan the Barbarian
1982
Black Lotus Street Peddler (uncredited)
Special Effects
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dark Star
1974
special effects
Visual Effects
Title
Year
Status
Character
Robot Jox
1989
conceptual designer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 'Alien' Saga
2002
TV Movie documentary acknowledgment: still photographs courtesy of
$700,000
