Billy Bryan

 

Bill Bryan was born in Newport News Va on Sept 20 1954 to an opera singing artist/engineer father who taught him to draw and sing and a choir directing ball-of-fire preacher’s-daughter mother who taught him to pattern, to sew, and to smile.

The middle child of seven, he grew up on seven acres of Piney woods in Bedford Mass, making art and music from an early age.

Inspired by Jim Henson and the Muppets, he started building and performing puppet shows while in High School.

At Syracuse University, where he earned a BFA in Metalsmithing, he was told by the Lost-In-Space Robot to “Go west, young man”, so he stuck out his thumb and hitch-hiked and hopped freights to arrive in Los Angeles on July 18, 1976.

Within two weeks he was building a banana costume for Elton John’s tour, and he’s been working fairly steadily ever since.

Five years at NBC Wardrobe Department prepared him for the hectic pace of the movie effects industry.

He was also introduced to the Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, where he lived and performed in various Shakespearian productions, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in which he played Puck, (after building an ass’ head for them, to insure that they would do the play.)

 

After leaving NBC in 1981, Bill served a short term at Sid and Marty Krofft’s shop where he met Mark Siegel who subsequently recommended him as the one to design and construct the still suits for DUNE.

After that, he was offered the task of fabricating and portraying the Staypuft Marshmallow Man in GHOSTBUSTERS at Richard Edlund’s Boss Films.

There Bill met and befriended fellow department heads, Randy Cook and Steve Johnson, who each eventually employed him at their respective FX houses, Ruckus Inc. for 3 years and XFX, (later Edge FX.) for over 15 years, where Bill might be foam fabricating on one job, then inventing a new art form on another, designing and constructing at the beginning of a job, and supervising and puppeteering at the end of the job.

Bill spent most of a year working for Stan Winston on AI and JURASSIC PARK 3.

While there, Stan described him as “A great find! Taking us places we’ve never been before!”

Several jobs with Carlo Rambaldi, several more with KNB, All Effects, Alterian and various other independent FX shops have rounded out his career as a problem solver and innovator.

 

Characters with which he has been associated include:

Mr. Staypuft, SIL, The Pit Bitch, Doc Ock, Andrew Martin, Captain Eo, Teddy Ruxpin, King Kong, Chucky, Rex, The Ninja Turtles, The Puttermans, The Energizer Bunny, The Shit Weasel, the Cat in the Hat, and The StubHub Ticket Oak, among others.

 

Throughout this career, Bill has experienced the joy of fatherhood, raising a daughter and three sons, and now, a grandson, two granddaughters and another on the way!

 

Some testimonials to his work follow:

 

Peter: Holy shit!! that is fantastic!!

 

William Forsche: Awesome Billy!

 

Jorge Kreature Zamora: Ass kickin!

 

Bruce Spaulding Fuller: This is pretty dang awesome!

 

Steve Johnson: You the MAN!

 

Juan Serrano: Fantastico!!!

 

Rob Freitas: Now THAT ... is what I am talking about.. You guys done good. Pretty amazing to think of all of the cool creature's that came from that little idea... From little tentacles on "Lord of Illussions".. To things of wonder as we see here...

 

Alahouzos Fx: Looks like microphotography from hell.....amazing!

 

Andrew Clement: That's just the best.

 

Alain Folgoas: At first, I believed it was some microscopic form of development, and i had to read the comments to understand that i was maybe some virtual human creation… Fantastic !…

 

David Mosher: I agree it looks like something from a documentary on Jellyfish-like sea life, BETTER than anything CGI could have done, this thing IS ALIVE!

 

Neal Kennemore: That just blew my mind and inspired at the same time.

Hats off to you , Mr.Bryan.

 

Patt Foad: such incredible work

 

Adam Johansen: Whoa!!

 

Kevin Wasner: Awesome is all can say

 

Michael O'Brien: As always, amazing work, Bill.

 

Steve Johnson: Freakin BRILLIANT! XFX, inc and EDGE FX inc, should have been called Steve Johnson's an Ass and Billy Bryan and Lenny Mac Donald Made the Company!

 

My youtube channel is staypuft5

 

Eventually my website staypuftandsons.com will be real

 

 

To CONTACT Us BY PHONE OR MAIL please USE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

 

MAILING ADDRESS:

 

Coolwaters Productions LLC

4400 West Riverside Drive #110-531

Burbank CA 91505-4046

USA

 

PHONE US

+1 (818) 767-7533

Coolwaters Productions LLC is a fully licensed celebrity management and PR company with 2 licenses in the state of California. We also retain a seller's permit and all of these certificates are on display in our home office as per CA state law. All images and information on this web site are the property of Coolwaters Productions LLC and or it's clients. Images taken from a client's film(s) are the property of the studios who own them. ANY film images used are NOT intended for infringement BUT only used to promote the actor and their respective bodies of work in the film industry. It is illegal to copy or reproduce ANY PART of this web site without the written permission of it's owner. COOLWATERS IS IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH NOR IS IT AN EMPLOYEE OF ANY STUDIO MENTIONED WITHIN. We are an independent company whose services are employed ONLY by the clients we serve. The clients we represent (either exclusively or non-exclusively) have given their personal expressed permission for us to use their images and likenesses on this site in the attempt to book them for appearances worldwide and for autograph deals. If you have any questions about this site, e-mail us by clicking on the web-master link below.

This site was designed by Origami Crow

The Coolwaters logo was designed for exclusive use by the company by artists Rick Farmiloe and Christi Haydon.

This site is owned and copyright 2017, Coolwaters Productions LLC

To CONTACT Us BY PHONE OR MAIL please USE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

 

MAILING ADDRESS:

 

COOLWATERS PRODUCTIONS LLC

10061 RIVERSIDE DRIVE

Box #531

TOLUCA LAKE, CA 91602-2560

 

PHONE US

+1 (818) 767-7533

Coolwaters Productions LLC is a fully licensed celebrity management and PR company with 2 licenses in the state of California. We also retain a seller's permit and all of these certificates are on display in our home office as per CA state law. All images and information on this web site are the property of Coolwaters Productions LLC and or it's clients. Images taken from a client's film(s) are the property of the studios who own them. ANY film images used are NOT intended for infringement BUT only used to promote the actor and their respective bodies of work in the film industry. It is illegal to copy or reproduce ANY PART of this web site without the written permission of it's owner. COOLWATERS IS IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH NOR IS IT AN EMPLOYEE OF ANY STUDIO MENTIONED WITHIN. We are an independent company whose services are employed ONLY by the clients we serve. The clients we represent (either exclusively or non-exclusively) have given their personal expressed permission for us to use their images and likenesses on this site in the attempt to book them for appearances worldwide and for autograph deals. If you have any questions about this site, e-mail us by clicking on the webmaster link below.

 

This site was designed by Origami Crow

The Coolwaters logo was designed for exclusive use by the company by artists Rick Farmiloe and Christi Haydon.

This site is owned and copyright 2017, Coolwaters Productions LLC