Douglas Trumbull

American film director, special effects designer (1942–2022)

0.11body-of-work score · ranked #2521 of 2640 directors · 1 film in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
April 8, 1942 · Los Angeles
Died
February 7, 2022 · Albany
Nationality
United States
Directing career
3 directorial credits, 1972–1991 · first: Silent Running (1972) · last: Back to the Future: The Ride (1991)
Work
film producer, film director, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Douglas Trumbull
Julian Herzog (Website) · CC BY 4.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1

    1972 · United States · sci-fi, adventure, drama

    Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 3 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

Spot a mistake on this page?