Kevin Pike

Background

Pike was born in Hartford Connecticut to John Thomas Pike and Barbara Ann Clapp.

Education

Pike graduated high school in 1969 and later studied Business Management at the University of Hartford.

Career

Pike is best known for supervising the Special Effects on Back to the Future (1985) and the creation of the iconic DeLorean Time Machine. He showed interest in the arts at an early age by making his own 8mm films. Pike’s film career began in April 1974, while working as a busboy at the Harborside Restaurant in Martha"s Vineyard, after a chance encounter with the first film crew of Jaws (1974) to arrive on the island.

Pike was hired onto the film as a local doing set construction, painting of the shark, and ended up working with the Special Effects crew.

After Jaws, Pike came out to Hollywood and continued his work in Special Effects with the major studios for film, television, and commercials. His work has served directors such as Robert Zemeckis, John Schlesinger, Taylor Hackford, David Fincher, Tim Burton, Wes Craven, George Lucas, and numerous projects for Steven Spielberg.

He also received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts nomination, and was considered for Oscar nomination on Back to the Future. Pike has lectured at University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia College Hollywood as well as teaching Special Effects classes at the Academy of Art University.

Kevin Pike currently lives in Sherman Oaks, California where he manages his company, The Filmtrix Agency, representing below the line talent, composers, writers, and directors.

Achievements

• While attending Granby Memorial High School he served as President of the Drama Club for all four years during which he won best actor in 1967 for his role in The Apollo of Bellac. Pike has earned nominations and awards including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects for the Amblin Television Production Earth 2 in 1995, a Clio Award for Best Special Effects on a Levi’s commercial directed by Michael Bay in 2000. Additionally, Pike continues to serve as a Governor for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and on the Executive Committee for the Visual Effects Branch for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Membership

He is also a Director with the DGA and a member of Screen Actors Guild.