Background
Cleve Hall was born on June 22, 1959 and grew up in Florida next to a family cemetery. His mother regularly took him to see low-budget horror films.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Cleve Hall
Edit ProfileCareer
After seeing the film Godzilla versus the Thing Cleve built a Godzilla costume that caught the attention of Six Flags, who hired him to build another costume. Cleve started his own special effects company, Imagimation Productions, and worked on numerous commercials and theater. In the 1980s he moved to Hollywood and worked on many low-budget films, including Pee Wee"s Big Adventure, in which he played Godzilla in a suit he had created himself.
Although digital special effects became more popular in the 1990s, Cleve continued using physical based effects and received an Emmy nomination for his work on Yo Gabba Gabba.
He also created props for bands such as KISS (for whom he created Gene Simmons" chest armor ), Insane Clown Posse, and Alice Cooper. As an actor, Cleve has appeared in numerous films beginning in the mid 80"s, most often portraying psychotic killers.
He has also played keyboards in Punk and Death Rock bands such as Mad Love while living in Florida, and Exquisite Corpse in Los Angeles in the 80"son Cleve Hall starred in the SyFy reality television series Monster Manitoba working with Sota F/X. Notable clients as seen on Monster Manitoba have been Sean South. Cunningham, Tony Randel, The Asylum, Devo, and Richard Elfman.
