Doug Beswick

Douglas "Doug" Beswick worked on two films in the original trilogy of Star Wars films. He was a second unit makeup artist for the 1977 film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and a stop motion technician for 1980's Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

On A New Hope, Beswick was part of a team that created the aliens for the Mos Eisley Cantina scene, The Bith in the cantina band were designed by Rick Baker, sculpted by Beswick, and painted by Laine Liska. He attempted to assist with the Greedo mask by adding a mechanism to work the mouth, but it broke just before shooting and was replaced with a clothespin for Maria De Aragon to manipulate.

Beswick worked with Tom St. Amand on The Empire Strikes Back to create the armature and mechanisms that operated the scale models of the All Terrain Armored Transport walkers for stop motion filming. The space slug conceptualized by Ralph McQuarrie was built into a puppet by Beswick and Phil Tippett.

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