Alec Dougal Gillis is an Academy Award-winning American special effects artist and actor who served as part of the creature effects crew on the 1986 film Aliens, the 1992 film Alien3, the 1997 film Alien Resurrection, the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator, the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and the 2018 film The Predator. He also appeared in a cameo as an unnamed technician in Alien vs. Predator, although he was not credited for the role. In 1988, Gillis co-founded Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI) with Tom Woodruff, Jr., and the company has since provided creature effects for Alien3, Alien Resurrection, Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Gillis's work has won an Academy Award for Visual Effects (for Death Becomes Her, although he was not listed on the official nomination) and a BAFTA. For his work on Alien3, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects, a BAFTA and a Saturn Award.

Filmography

• 2026Robot Dracula — Alec
• 2025Cringe — Fitz, Thanks
• 2025Predator: Badlands — Creature Design, Special Effects Supervisor
• 2025Wellwood — Executive Producer
• 2024Alien: Romulus — Special Effects Supervisor
• 2024Smile 2 — Makeup Effects Designer
• 2023Eulogy to Us
• 2022Prey — Predator Puppeteer (ADI), Makeup Effects Designer
• 2022Smile — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• OATS Studios — 民兵, William 'Billy'
• 2021Oats Studios: Volume 1 — Militia #1 / Bill
• 2021Witches Midnight — Oswald Octav
• 2020Adam 2.0 — Thanks
• 2020Bad President - Kenya — William "Billy" Coltran
• 2019It Chapter Two — Makeup Designer
• 2019Playtime — Director
• 2017Bad President - All My Sh*t — William 'Billy' Coltran
• 2017Bad President - Oil Spill — William 'Billy' Coltran
• Cooking with Bill — Bill
• 2017It — Makeup Effects Designer
• 2017Rakka — Militia #1
• 2015Harbinger Down — Director, Writer
• 2015Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2015San Andreas — Makeup Effects
• 2015The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars'
• 2013Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2012Astronaut: The Last Push — Charlie
• 2010Skyline — Creature Design
• 2005Elektra — Puppeteer
• 2004AVP: Alien vs. Predator — Technician (uncredited)
• 2002Panic Room — Makeup Effects, Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2002Spider-Man — Makeup Designer
• 2002The Santa Clause 2 — Makeup Effects Designer
• 2000Hollow Man — Makeup Designer
• 2000The 6th Day — Makeup Effects
• 1998The X-Files — Makeup Effects
• 1997Alien Resurrection — Hero Alien Warrior (uncredited)
• 1997Starship Troopers — Creature Effects Technical Director
• 1995Jumanji — Makeup Designer
• 1994The Santa Clause — Animatronics Designer, Special Effects Key Makeup Artist
• 1992Stay Tuned — Makeup Effects Designer
• 1990Tremors — Creature Design
• 1989Leviathan — Creature Design
• 1987The Monster Squad — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 1986Aliens — Alien (uncredited)
• 1986The Clan of the Cave Bear — Animatronics Designer
• 1984Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 1981Galaxy of Terror — Prosthetics
• Hollywood is Fine — Alec Gillis, Story
• Samuk — Creature Design

Appearances as themselves (25)

• 2020Tremors: Making Perfection — Himself
• 2019Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film — Self
• 2019Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters — Self
• The Movies That Made Us — Self
• 2015Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex — Self
• 2014Leviathan: Monster Melting Pot — Himself
• Skin Wars — Self - Guest Judge
• 2012Men in Suits — Self
• 2011Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class — Self
• 2010Chiller 13: The Decade's Scariest Movie Moments — Self
• 2010Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror — Self
• 2009Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins — Self
• 2007Monster Squad Forever! — Self
• 2005Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection — Self
• 2005The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz — Self
• 2004Shooting 'Panic Room' — Self
• 2003Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens' — Self
• 2003Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' — Self
• 2002Behind the Scenes of 'John Q' — Self
• 2002Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers' — Self
• 2002Starship Troopers: Know Your Foe — Self
• 2000Lions and Monkeys and Pods... Oh My!: The Special Effects of 'Jumanji' — Self
• 2000Making Jumanji: The Realm of Imagination — Self
• 1998The Making of ‘Tremors’ — Self
• Fleshing Out the Hollow Man — Self