Rest in peace.
- Colin Cantwell, the man who designed the spacecraft in the “Star Wars” films, has died. He was 90. Sunday that Sierra Dall, Cantwell’s partner, confirmed that he died at his home in Colorado on Saturday.He also worked on films including “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “WarGames.”
Cantwell was born in San Francisco in 1932. Before working on Hollywood films, Cantwell attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he got a degree in animation. He also attended Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture. In the 1960s he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA on educational programs about flights. Cantwell worked with NASA to feed Walter Cronkite updates during the 1969 moon landing.Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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