Carlo Rambaldi

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Carlo Rambaldi (born 1925 in Vigarano Mainarda, Italy) is an Italian-born special effects artist who is most famous for designing the title character of the 1982 super-smash hit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien. Rambaldi has also worked on Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) (1975), King Kong (1976), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Dune (1984), and King Kong Lives (1986).

In the popular TV show, Alias, the prophet Milo Rambaldi was named after him, and in the Nintendo franchise Star Fox, the character Falco Lombardi shares his last name as a tribute to him. (In the japanese version of the franchise, his last name is Rambaldi, and in the American & European versions the last name is slightly changed to Lombardi)