Belardinelli, Charles

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BELARDINELLI, Charles

(Charles O. C. Belardinelli, Charlie Belardinelli, Charles Bellardinelli)

PERSONAL

Career: Special effects artist and stunt performer. Image Engineering, worked as mechanical special effects technician; Bellissimo/Belardinelli Effects, Inc., partner and special effects artist.

Awards, Honors: Visual Effects Society Award (with Thomas L. Bellissimo), outstanding special effects in service to visual effects in a televised program, music video, or commercial, 2004, for the pilot of Carnivale.

CREDITS

Film Work; Special Effects Coordinator:

Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight (also known as Demon Keeper and Demon Knight), Universal, 1995.

Mad Dog Time (also known as Trigger Happy), Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1996.

(With others) Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood, Universal, 1996.

(As Charles O. C. Belardinelli) Almost Heroes (also known as Almost History, Edwards and Hunt, Edwards and Hunt: The First American Road Trip, From Here to There, and Westward Ho), Columbia/TriStar, 1998.

Dogma, Lions Gate Films, 1999.

House on Haunted Hill, Warner Bros., 1999.

What Lies Beneath, DreamWorks SKG, 2000.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Dimension Films, 2001.

(As Charlie Belardinelli) Thir13en Ghosts (also known as 13 fantomes), Warner Bros., 2001.

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, New Line Cinema, 2003.

The Moguls, Newmarket Films, 2005.

Film Special Effects Foreman:

Angus (also known as Angus—Voll Cool), New Line Cinema, 1996.

Jackie Brown (also known as Rum Punch), Miramax, 1997.

Resurrection, Columbia/TriStar Home Video, 1999.

Paparazzi, Twentieth Century–Fox, 2004.

Film Special Effects Technician:

Killer Klowns from Outer Space, 1988.

Wait until Spring, Bandini (also known as Bandini, John Fante's Wait until Spring, Bandini, Aspetta primavera Bandini, and Le ragioni del cuore), 1989.

Payback, Trimark Pictures, 1995.

Film Special Effects Worker:

Far from Home, 1989.

(As Charlie Belardinelli) Far Out, Man!, New Line Cinema, 1990.

Pump Up the Volume, New Line Cinema, 1990.

Bulletproof, Universal, 1996.

The Criminal Mind, 1996.

American History X, New Line Cinema, 1998.

Film Special Effects Assistant:

A Nightmare on Elm Street, New Line Cinema, 1984.

Cold Heaven, 1992.

Film Special Effects Key:

The Mask, New Line Cinema, 1994.

Separate Lives, 1995.

Set It Off, New Line Cinema, 1996.

Film Mechanical Effects Worker:

(As Charlie Belardinelli) A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, New Line Cinema, 1988.

Suburban Commando, New Line Cinema, 1991.

(As Charles Bellardinelli) Mechanical effects assistant, Highway to Hell, 1992.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (also known as Friday the 13th IX), 1993.

Mechanical special effects key, From Dusk till Dawn, Dimension Films, 1996.

Film Pyrotechnics Assistant:

The Kindred, 1987.

Film Stunt Performer:

Four Rooms (also known as Four Rooms and a Hotel), Miramax, 1995.

Set It Off, New Line Cinema, 1996.

American History X, New Line Cinema, 1998.

Television Special Effects Worker; Series:

Deadly Games, UPN, 1995–1996.

Television Special Effects Worker; Miniseries:

(As Charlie Belardinelli) If These Walls Could Talk, HBO, 1996.

Special effects coordinator, House of Frankenstein, NBC, 1997.

Television Special Effects Coordinator; Movies:

(As Charlie Belardinelli) Frankenstein: The College Years, Fox, 1991.

The Heroes of Desert Storm, ABC, 1991.

Double Tap, HBO, 1997.

Television Special Effects Worker; Movies:

I'm Dangerous Tonight, USA Network, 1990.

Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story, 1993.

Special effects technician, Full Eclipse, HBO, 1993.

The Winner, The Movie Channel, 1996.

Blade Squad, Fox, 1998.

No Code of Conduct, USA Network, 1998.

Television Stunt Performer; Movies:

(As Charlie Belardinelli) Confessions of a Sorority Girl (also known as Confessions of Sorority Girls), Showtime, 1994.

Jailbreakers, Showtime, 1994.

Reform School Girl, 1994.

Shake, Rattle and Rock!, 1994.

Television Special Effects Operator; Specials:

Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed, Fox, 1997.

Television Work; Pilots:

(With Thomas L. Bellissimo) Member of special effects team, Carnivale, HBO, 2003.

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