Tom Woodruff, Jr.

Tom Woodruff, Jr. is a special effects artist and actor who has worked on every Alien and Alien vs. Predator film from Aliens onwards.
He was first an employee of Stan Winston, with whom he worked on Aliens and Predator; he received a small cameo in Aliens as one of the salvagers who rediscover Ellen Ripley at the beginning of the movie. In 1988, Woodruff, Jr. and co-worker Alec Gills left Winston and founded their own company, Amalgamated Dynamics. As Winston was unavailable to work in Alien³, he recommended Amalgamated Dynamics to the producers. There Woodruff, Jr. played a Xenomorph for the first time, as the Dragon. He then played the Lead Alien in Alien Resurrection, Grid in Alien vs. Predator, and the Predalien in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.
Woodruff was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects in Alien³ (an award he later won for Death Becomes Her).

Doug Jones.

Doug Jones (Indianápolis, 24 de mayo de 1960) es un actor estadounidense especializado en mímica. Suele interpretar personajes que necesitan de aparatosos disfraces.

Tras estudiar en una escuela católica de Indianápolis, Doug Jones se graduó en Telecomunicaciones y Teatro en la Universidad Ball State de Muncie (Indiana), en 1982. Allí se unió también por primera vez a una compañía de mimos, llamada Mime over Matter. En 1983 trabajó como contorsionisa para diversos anuncios televisivos, entre ellos aquél en el que hizo su debut el personaje Mac Tonight de McDonald's.
En 1985 trasladó su residencia a California, donde permanece desde entonces y ha participado en unos 25 largometrajes, series televisivas como Buffy Cazavampiros, cerca de 90 anuncios y varios vídeos musicales de artistas como Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers y Marilyn Manson. No obstante, no alcanzó gran notoriedad hasta el estreno de Hellboy (2004), en el que daba vida al hombre-pez Abraham "abe" Sapien. Durante el rodaje de Hellboy trabó amistad con el director mexicano Guillermo del Toro, con el que trabajó en su siguiente proyecto, El laberinto del fauno, primera película en lengua no inglesa de Doug Jones. Aunque Jones aprendió un cierto nivel de español durante el rodaje, finalmente se decidió que en la versión final de la película fuese doblado. Entre sus proyectos actuales se encuentran varias secuelas de Hellboy y la segunda parte de Los 4 fantásticos, donde encarna al Silver Surfer en movimientos, ya que la voz la recrea otro actor (Laurence Fishburne).
Actualmente trabaja en la serie Falling Skies, para TNT, en el personaje del líder alienígena de la raza Volm llamado "Cochise".^[1] En 2014, Jones aparecerá como Barrow en la serie de MTV, Teen Wolf.^[2]
Doug Jones es también un productor de cine independiente y un cantautor aficionado. Está casado y tiene su residencia en Los Ángeles.

Andrew bryniarski.

Andrew Bryniarski en La Matanza De Texas (2003)

Men in suits.

Men in Suits: An Interview with Frank Woodward

http://www.theofantastique.com/2012/11/29/men-in-suits-an-interview-with-frank-woodward/


Computer-generated imagery and motion-capture are all the rage in special effects today, but actors in monster suits can still be found as well. They tap into a form of special effects work, as well as an art form, that goes back for decades in cinema.
Frank Woodward and the team at Wyrd Films have produced a documentary that explores this subject in MEN IN SUITS. Below is our interview on this topic.
TheoFantastique: Frank, thanks for coming back here to discuss your latest film. Readers may remember your documentary on Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown. How did the original concept arise in terms of focusing on those unsung heroes of genre films, actors in suits?
Frank Woodward: I think it helped that I was already a monster fan. I knew the names Tom Woodruff, Jr., Bob Burns, Nakajima, Brian Steele, Doug Jones. They were talented actors in my mind and it was always vexing that most people didn’t know who they were. Godzilla, Predator and the Gill Man are icons of cinema yet, unlike James Bond or Indiana Jones, most people can’t tell you who played these characters.
When I started brainstorming about our next documentary with fellow Wyrd producers Jim Myers and Bill Janczewski, the first thing we came up with was a history of make-up. That was immediately seen as too broad and something that had been done to death. We focused on guys in suits because we couldn’t think of any film that explored that topic in depth.
What really convinced us though was when Bill told his wife Stacy about the idea. “We’re thinking about doing a documentary about guys who wear creature suits.” Her response was, “That’s a job?” It was no question after that.
And MEN IN SUITS is made for more than fanboys already in the know. We made the film to show that it’s not only a job…it’s an art.
TheoFantastique: You assembled quite a cast of interview subjects for this documentary. I would assume this is a tight knit group of people who were excited about the opportunity to talk about their work. Is this the case?
Frank Woodward: Most of these guys are familiar with each other for sure. In some cases like Doug Jones and Brian Steele they’ve worked together on a few films. All of them seemed happy to be part of a documentary that finally acknowledged the work they put into their roles.

Brian Steel. Creatureboy

Brian Steele is an American actor who has played monsters and creatures on television and in films.

On television, he played the Bigfoot called Harry in the series Harry and the Hendersons before moving on to play creatures in theatrical motion pictures, with roles like Mr. Wink in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army wearing over 130 pounds of makeup. Steele has portrayed Drake Beast in Blade: Trinity, Sammael in Hellboy, Lycan in Underworld, William Corvinus in Underworld: Evolution, Big Lycan in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, T-600 in Terminator Salvation and Berzerker Predator in Predators.In 2012 played a stalking and hunting Bigfoot in Eduardo Sánchez horror-thriller film Exists.

Your Highness (2011)

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010)

Predators (2010)

Terminator Salvation (2009)

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

Lady in the Water (2006)

Underworld: Evolution (2006)

Doom (2005)

The Cave (2005)

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Hellboy (2004)

Underworld (2003)

Men in Black II (2002)

Monkeybone (2001)

Bless the Child (2000)

Gladiator (2000)

The Edge (1997)

The Relic (1997)

Harry and the Hendersons (TV series) (1992–1993)

Howard The Duck (1986)

http://www.creatureboy.com/

Carey Jones. Alien riverghorst y Predator tracker

Carey Jones is an actor known for his work on Surrogates (2009), The Sixth Sense (1999) and This Is the End (2013).^[1]
Jones portrayed the Tracker Super Predator and the River Ghost in Predators (2010).^[
He also doubled for Brian Steele in some scenes as the Berserker and Falconer.

http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Carey_Jones

The design of the River Ghost had to be altered to fit suit performer Carey Jones' physique, which was more muscular than earlier thin concept art allowed. The suit used during filming took around half an hour to put on while on set, a drastic reduction from the full hour it took the first time Jones donned the suit. Unlike the Predator outfits in the film — one of which, Tracker, was also played by Jones — the River Ghost suit had no eye holes and as a result Jones had to perform completely blind. The River Ghost's suit also differed from the Predator's in that it was thicker, the hands difficult to wear due to the length and the head was tighter to Jones' than the Predator's. During filming, Jones tried to keep himself in the mindset of a creature kidnapped from its home and taken against its will to this alien world. Due to the appearance of the suit, he felt that the River Ghost was a savage creature and tried to translate this into his performance. When he chased after Edwin, Jones performed as if there was no obstacle between him and Edwin and his sole focus was on the capture of his prey.
The River Ghost Jones portrayed has been given several names, but the most common name used by the production team and during the design phase was "River Ghost". According to Carey Jones, this name was derived from how the encounter with the creature played out in an earlier draft of the script — the creature was originally to have been found near a river and it was barely seen, behaving almost like a ghost or apparition. "Ram Rummer" was another name given to the creature, to which Jones said, "I couldn't quite figure out why [it had that name] until I was in the suit running full speed through the jungle."

Derek Mears. Classic Predator in movie Predators. 2010

Derek Mears se encuentra bajo la piel del Classic Predator. Classic es un Predator que se halla encadenado a un poste por sus compañeros, por motivos desconocidos. Su diseño fue basado en el de la película original.

Predators (en Hispanoamérica Depredadores) es una película estadounidense de 2010, dirigida por Nimrod Antal, producida por Robert Rodriguez y protagonizada por Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo y Derek Mears en los papeles principales; es la continuación de la serie.

también ha interpretado a otros personajes como en piratas del caribe, Jason Voorhees en el remake de la primera película Viernes 13 realizado en 2009 y el troll de hansel y gretel cazadores de brujas.

Ian White. PREDATOR VS. ALIEN.

Ian Whyte nació en Bangor, Gales y se crio en Brighton, Inglaterra, donde asistió al Dorothy Stringer High School. En 1990 se le concedió una beca deportiva para jugar al baloncesto en el Iona College en New Rochelle, Nueva York, donde permaneció durante dos años. Él se fue luego a la Universidad de Clarion en Pennsylvania, donde estudió historia y regresó a Inglaterra en 1994 para seguir jugando al baloncesto en Londres. Su historial, a veces áspero, de inmediato llamó la atención del entrenador de Inglaterra, Laszlo Nemeth. Durante ese tiempo Ian jugado para los clubes en Francia, Portugal, Bélgica y Grecia, antes de resolver volver a Inglaterra para jugar con el Newcastle Eagles, donde terminó su carrera.
En 2003, Ian es seleccionado para interpretar el papel del Predator en la película, Alien vs. Predator, producida por 20th Century Fox. Para su próxima película, Ian se fue al otro extremo del espectro para explorar su lado femenino con una altura de 8 pies y 6 pulgadas (unos 2.58 metros) de altura en la bruja Madamme Olympe Maxime que aparece en la película Harry Potter y el Cáliz de Fuego.
Ian también ha participado en la secuela de Alien vs. Predator, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem y continúa trabajando en una serie de proyectos, entre ellos, Dragon Ball, del cual aún se desconoce su rol. Ian es un estudiante de la Zheng Dao un sistema chino de artes marciales, la incorporación de Tai Chi, Ba Gua, Wing Chun, un estilo chino y kick boxing, entre otros. Ian está casado y vive en el Nordeste de Inglaterra.