Alec Gillis
Alec Dougal Gillis is an Academy Award-winning American special effects artist and actor who served as part of the creature effects crew on the 1986 film Aliens, the 1992 film Alien3, the 1997 film Alien Resurrection, the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator, the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and the 2018 film The Predator. He also appeared in a cameo as an unnamed technician in Alien vs. Predator, although he was not credited for the role.
In 1988, Gillis co-founded Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI) with Tom Woodruff, Jr., and the company has since provided creature effects for Alien3, Alien Resurrection, Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.
Gillis's work has won an Academy Award for Visual Effects (for Death Becomes Her, although he was not listed on the official nomination) and a BAFTA. For his work on Alien3, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects, a BAFTA and a Saturn Award.
Acting
Movie
Aliens
as Alien (uncredited)
1986
Movie
Prey
as Predator Puppeteer (ADI)
2022
Movie
Alien Resurrection
as Hero Alien Warrior (uncredited)
1997
Movie
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
as Technician (uncredited)
2004
Movie
Rakka
as Militia #1
2017
TV
The Movies That Made Us
as Self
2019
TV
OATS Studios
as 民兵
2021
TV
OATS Studios
as William 'Billy'
2021
Movie
Astronaut: The Last Push
as Charlie
2012
Movie
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
as Self
2015
TV
Cooking with Bill
as Bill
2017
Movie
Oats Studios: Volume 1
as Militia #1 / Bill
2021
Movie
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
as Self
2003
Movie
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
as Self
2003
Movie
Bad President - Oil Spill
as William 'Billy' Coltran
2017
Movie
Bad President - All My Sh*t
as William 'Billy' Coltran
2017
TV
Skin Wars
as Self - Guest Judge
2014
Movie
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
as Self
2019
Movie
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
as Self
2019
Movie
Monster Squad Forever!
as Self
2007
Movie
Shooting 'Panic Room'
as Self
2004
Movie
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
as Self
2009
Movie
Tremors: Making Perfection
as Himself
2020
Movie
Bad President - Kenya
as William "Billy" Coltran
2020
Crew
Movie
Spider-Man
Makeup Designer
2002
Movie
It
Makeup Effects Designer
2017
Movie
Jumanji
Makeup Designer
1995
Movie
It Chapter Two
Makeup Designer
2019
Movie
San Andreas
Makeup Effects
2015
Movie
Prey
Makeup Effects Designer
2022
Movie
Starship Troopers
Creature Effects Technical Director
1997
Movie
Panic Room
Makeup Effects
2002
Movie
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Special Effects Makeup Artist
2013
Movie
Alien: Romulus
Special Effects Supervisor
2024
Movie
Smile
Special Effects Makeup Artist
2022
Movie
Tremors
Creature Design
1990