Cliff Silsby |
Biography:
A painter and etcher, Clifford
Silsby was born in New Haven, Connecticut (1896) and died in Los
Angeles(1986). He studied in Paris at the Academy Julian and the Ecole
des Beaux Arts. For many years, he was a special effects artist for motion
pictures in Hollywood and New York and lived primarily in California from
1912 to 1962. He was the adopted son of Wilson Silsby.
Clifford Silsby worked as matte
painter at T.C.Fox Studio under Fred Sersen, and at Warner Bros FX
Stage 5, under Lou Lichtenfield.
All his work during these years
remain uncredited.
At the sixties he joined Linwood
Dunn Company, Film Effects of Hollywood.
Filmography:
- The Great Race (1965) (matte artist)
- It is a mad mad mad mad World
(1963) (matte painting)
Detail of Cliff Silsby working on
a painting for "Mad World" (63)
The final painting.