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Weed was born on 23 December 1962 in San Francisco, California.
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Harold Weed
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His most notable works have been: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He started his career in films in the 1980s with an uncredited model making job for the film Gremlins. Incomplete lists of Weed"s visual effects works appear on the websites Hollywood.com and the New York Times.
Weed has gained a cult following for his involvement with the Universe.
Weed works with George Lucas" company Industrial Light and Magic and has appeared in Episode IV as multiple characters and worked on multiple films behind the scenes with his special effects work. In the 1997 Special Edition re-release of: A New Hope, Weed played Ketwol, a character created with a costume and mechanical stilts.
Also in the re-release, Weeds appeared as the Wampa, replacing actor Des Webb, and then as character Melas. Weed appears in:
17th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Cinefex issues 69-72
Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010 by John Edgar Browning
The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies by Radh Govinda Young
: The Making of Episode I, The Phantom Menace by Laurent Bouzereau and Jody Duncan.
