24 Unknowns Who Made Huge Contributions To Movies And Shows

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You would think that, with the seemingly endless roll of credits at the end of literally every show and picture, everyone who deserves accolades would get them. But it turns out there are incredibly important contributors to major franchises that nobody talks about.

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Whenever Batman (1989) is mentioned, you think about Tim Burton, Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. But you probably don't know who Sam Hamm is. He wa

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CRACKEDCON Most of the Mac Hack in Macgyver was made possible by the creative thinking Of a gemologist named Johnl. Koivula.

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VERNA FIELDS, WHO WON AN OSCAR FOR EDITING, SAVED JAWS. SHE FOUND A WAY TO HIDE THE SHARK'S UNREALISTIC LOOK WITH QUICK CUTS AND MADE THE MOVIE INTO A

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You can thank USMC Capt. Dale Dye for setting the bar for realism in war movies. The Vietnam veteran became a technical advisor mainly to see a war mo

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FEM OGUNS Is THE CRACKED.COM FOUNDER OF THE IDENTITY SCHOOL OF ACTING IT DEVELOPS AND REPRESENTS BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY ACTORS. THE SCHOOL HELPS OV

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MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE BABY DRIVER was made possible by the tireless efforts of Music Supervisor KIRSTEN LANE who worked for two years to get p

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Walter M. Jefferies was instrumental in the success of Star Trek: He designed the iconic spaceship, the Starship Enterprise! NCC-17

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The uncredited geniuses behind Demogorgon from Stranger Things are CRAGN Aaron Sims Steffen Reichstadt and Michael Pecchia. The only thing specified i

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Michael Kahn has been editing Steven Spielberg's movies for forty years. Kahn started working with the famous director on Close Encounters of the Thir

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TOMMLEE WALLACE was the production designer for John Carpenter's original HALLOWEEN He chose Michael Myers' face. When looking for a mask for the The

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CRACKED.COM Linda Chen edited the Pulp Fiction script for Quentin Tarantino. It was Chen's (unpaid) job to turn Tarantino's mass of error-riddled note

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Jonathan Wolff has written theme music for over seventy television shows, including WILL & GRACE and WHO'S THE BOSS? Music Consultants Group, Inc. His

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WE HAVE PIXAR SUPERVISING TECHNICAL DIRECTOR GALYN SUSMAN TO THANK FOR GETTING TOY STORY ON TIME. 2 THE NEW MOM KEPT A FILE BACKUP AT HOME SO SHE COUL

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DAVID FINCHER AND JAMES CAMERON HELPED DEADPOOLGET MADE. The Hollywood giants both read the script, and then threw their support for the film to 20th

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Maurice Seiderman created a way to age the then 25-year-old Orson Welles in Citizen Kane. Seiderman was sweeping floors in the RKO Studios makeup depa

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Award-winning COM cinematographer Robert Burks was Alfred Hitchcock's go-to camera guy. Burks was responsible for the camerawork and lighting for many

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CRACKED.COM If not for SISSY SPACEK David Lynch's landmark film ERASERHEAD might not have been made. In addition to funding the film with her husband,

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Harvey Keitel found the funding for RESERVOIR DOGS for a then- unknown Quentin Tarantino. Keitel was Sso impressed with the script that he signed on a

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If you enjoy the Harry Potter films, thank David Heyman. Puy Pofer Atee at Poiter ITS n'Se 0000 artyifer As the guardian of the franchise, the produ

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Indiana Jones owes his sense of style to Deborah Nadoolman Landis. CRACKED.COM Steven Spielberg handpicked Landis to design Indiana Jones's iconic loo

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Meet John Gaeta. He's the guy who designed the bullet time special effects in The Matrix. In fact, his prototype convinced Warner Bros. that the scrip

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Terminator was saved because a finance guy believed in it when no-one else did. CSTHABK Almost everyone who worked on Terminator thought it was trashy

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UNCREDITED SCRIPT DOCTOR CRACKEDOON TOM MANKIEWICZ FIXED THE MESS THAT WAS SUPERMAN THE MOVIE. Richard Donner called Tom and said the film was headed