Brian Johnson 1982

Brian Johnson is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. Johnson started his career behind the scenes for Bowie Films on productions such as On The Buses, and for Hammer Films. He is known for his special effects work on TV series including Thunderbirds and films including Alien. He talks here with David Childs.

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Fantastic. Brian Johnson one of the greats!! I've seen just about every film he's had a hand in.

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Great interview!

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As a kid in the 80s I had a neighbour who was roughly the same age named 'Mark' who claimed that his grandfather worked on the Spaceships of Space 1999 (The Eagles) and movie Alien (The Nostromo). Mark actually looked very similar to Brian Johnson above but I cannot remember Mark's surname to see if he was related to Brian in the video. I remember Mark lived with is natural mother, is stepfather and his smaller brother 'John' and little infant sister 'Rebecca' whose biological father were the stepfather; Mark's real biological father had been killed in a car crash he told me and may have been Irish (not sure, this was circa 1985). Mark lived with in the house behind me in a Preston suburb of Lostock Hall. Just wondering if anyone knows if Mark the kid I knew is Brian Johnson's grandchild ? the entire search is maybe complicated by the fact that Brian Johnson at one point changed his name from Brian Johncock, dunno if he did that in his youth or later in life. I remember Mark looking remarkably similar to Brian Johnson in the video above and also Mark owned a Dragon 32 8-bit home computer.