Alan Maley; Won Oscar for Special Effects
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Alan Maley, a graphic artist who won an Academy Award for special visual effects in the 1971 Walt Disney film “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” has died of a heart attack at his home in Belvedere in Northern California.
He was 64 and died May 13.
Born in London, Maley began painting signs in the British film industry, moving on to create images that supplemented photography.
One of his best-known special-effects creations was Slim Pickens’ apocalyptic joy ride on a nuclear bomb in the 1964 picture “Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”
Maley is survived by his wife, Pamela; a son, Andrew; a daughter, Caroline; a sister, Barbara, and his mother, Constance.
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