Howard Lydecker

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Mechanical & Creature Designer:
1953  Invaders from Mars

Special Effects:
1927  The Gaucho
1935  The Miracle Rider
1937  Paradise Express
1939  Daredevils of the Red Circle
1940  Adventures of Red Ryder
1941  Jungle Girl
1941  King of the Texas Rangers
1942  Flying Tigers
1942  Spy Smasher
1942  The Girl from Alaska
1943  In Old Oklahoma
1943  Secret Service In Darkest Africa
1943  The Masked Marvel
1945  Federal Operator 99
1945  Flame of Barbary Coast
1945  Manhunt of Mystery Island
1945  Sunset in El Dorado
1945  The Fatal Witness
1945  The Purple Monster Strikes
1946  King of the Forest Rangers
1946  Rendezvous with Annie
1946  That Brennan Girl
1946  The Catman of Paris
1946  The Crimson Ghost
1946  The Last Crooked Mile
1946  The Phantom Rider
1946  Valley of the Zombies
1947  Angel and the Badman
1947  Driftwood
1947  Jesse James Rides Again
1947  Son of Zorro
1947  That's My Man
1947  The Fabulous Texan
1947  The Ghost Goes Wild
1948  Angel on the Amazon
1948  G-Men Never Forget
1948  I, Jane Doe
1948  Macbeth
1948  Madonna of the Desert
1948  Out of the Storm
1948  Under California Stars
1948  Wake of the Red Witch
1949  The Fighting Kentuckian
1949  The Red Menace
1949  Too Late for Tears
1950  Federal Agent at Large
1950  Flying Disc Man from Mars
1950  Gunmen of Abilene
1950  Rustlers on Horseback
1950  Sands of Iwo Jima
1950  Singing Guns
1950  Surrender
1950  The Capture
1950  The Invisible Monster
1950  The Savage Horde
1950  Unmasked
1951  Bullfighter and the Lady
1951  Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
1951  Honeychile
1951  Insurance Investigator
1951  Night Riders of Montana
1951  Oh! Susanna
1951  Thunder in God's Country
1952  Captive of Billy the Kid
1952  Colorado Sundown
1952  Oklahoma Annie
1952  Ride the Man Down
1952  The Last Musketeer
1953  Bandits of the West
1953  Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
1953  Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe
1953  El Paso Stampede
1953  Fair Wind to Java
1953  Invaders from Mars
1953  Jungle Drums of Africa
1953  Red River Shore
1954  Hell's Outpost
1954  Johnny Guitar
1954  Make Haste to Live
1954  Phantom Stallion
1954  The Shanghai Story
1954  Tobor the Great
1954  Trader Tom of the China Seas
1955  Carolina Cannonball
1955  Double Jeopardy
1955  Panther Girl of the Kongo
1955  The Eternal Sea
1956  A Woman's Devotion
1956  Lisbon
1956  Stranger at My Door
1957  Spoilers of the Forest
1966  The Claw Monsters
1966  Way... Way Out

Special Effects Coordinator:
1927  The Gaucho
1935  The Miracle Rider
1937  Paradise Express
1939  Daredevils of the Red Circle
1940  Adventures of Red Ryder
1941  Jungle Girl
1941  King of the Texas Rangers
1942  Flying Tigers
1942  Spy Smasher
1942  The Girl from Alaska
1943  In Old Oklahoma
1943  Secret Service In Darkest Africa
1943  The Masked Marvel
1945  Federal Operator 99
1945  Flame of Barbary Coast
1945  Manhunt of Mystery Island
1945  Sunset in El Dorado
1945  The Fatal Witness
1945  The Purple Monster Strikes
1946  King of the Forest Rangers
1946  Rendezvous with Annie
1946  That Brennan Girl
1946  The Catman of Paris
1946  The Crimson Ghost
1946  The Last Crooked Mile
1946  The Phantom Rider
1946  Valley of the Zombies
1947  Angel and the Badman
1947  Driftwood
1947  Jesse James Rides Again
1947  Son of Zorro
1947  That's My Man
1947  The Fabulous Texan
1947  The Ghost Goes Wild
1948  Angel on the Amazon
1948  G-Men Never Forget
1948  I, Jane Doe
1948  Macbeth
1948  Madonna of the Desert
1948  Out of the Storm
1948  Under California Stars
1948  Wake of the Red Witch
1949  The Fighting Kentuckian
1949  The Red Menace
1949  Too Late for Tears
1950  Federal Agent at Large
1950  Flying Disc Man from Mars
1950  Gunmen of Abilene
1950  Rustlers on Horseback
1950  Sands of Iwo Jima
1950  Singing Guns
1950  Surrender
1950  The Capture
1950  The Invisible Monster
1950  The Savage Horde
1950  Unmasked
1951  Bullfighter and the Lady
1951  Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
1951  Honeychile
1951  Insurance Investigator
1951  Night Riders of Montana
1951  Oh! Susanna
1951  Thunder in God's Country
1952  Captive of Billy the Kid
1952  Colorado Sundown
1952  Oklahoma Annie
1952  Ride the Man Down
1952  The Last Musketeer
1953  Bandits of the West
1953  Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
1953  Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe
1953  El Paso Stampede
1953  Fair Wind to Java
1953  Invaders from Mars
1953  Jungle Drums of Africa
1953  Red River Shore
1954  Hell's Outpost
1954  Johnny Guitar
1954  Make Haste to Live
1954  Phantom Stallion
1954  The Shanghai Story
1954  Tobor the Great
1954  Trader Tom of the China Seas
1955  Carolina Cannonball
1955  Double Jeopardy
1955  Panther Girl of the Kongo
1955  The Eternal Sea
1956  A Woman's Devotion
1956  Lisbon
1956  Stranger at My Door
1957  Spoilers of the Forest
1962  The Underwater City
1966  The Claw Monsters
1966  Way... Way Out

Visual Effects:
1927  The Gaucho
1935  The Miracle Rider
1937  Paradise Express
1939  Daredevils of the Red Circle
1940  Adventures of Red Ryder
1941  Jungle Girl
1941  King of the Texas Rangers
1942  Flying Tigers
1942  Spy Smasher
1942  The Girl from Alaska
1943  In Old Oklahoma
1943  Secret Service In Darkest Africa
1943  The Masked Marvel
1945  Federal Operator 99
1945  Flame of Barbary Coast
1945  Manhunt of Mystery Island
1945  Sunset in El Dorado
1945  The Fatal Witness
1945  The Purple Monster Strikes
1946  King of the Forest Rangers
1946  Rendezvous with Annie
1946  That Brennan Girl
1946  The Catman of Paris
1946  The Crimson Ghost
1946  The Last Crooked Mile
1946  The Phantom Rider
1946  Valley of the Zombies
1947  Angel and the Badman
1947  Driftwood
1947  Jesse James Rides Again
1947  Son of Zorro
1947  That's My Man
1947  The Fabulous Texan
1947  The Ghost Goes Wild
1948  Angel on the Amazon
1948  G-Men Never Forget
1948  I, Jane Doe
1948  Macbeth
1948  Madonna of the Desert
1948  Out of the Storm
1948  Under California Stars
1948  Wake of the Red Witch
1949  The Fighting Kentuckian
1949  The Red Menace
1949  Too Late for Tears
1950  Federal Agent at Large
1950  Flying Disc Man from Mars
1950  Gunmen of Abilene
1950  Rustlers on Horseback
1950  Sands of Iwo Jima
1950  Singing Guns
1950  Surrender
1950  The Capture
1950  The Invisible Monster
1950  The Savage Horde
1950  Unmasked
1951  Bullfighter and the Lady
1951  Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
1951  Honeychile
1951  Insurance Investigator
1951  Night Riders of Montana
1951  Oh! Susanna
1951  Thunder in God's Country
1952  Captive of Billy the Kid
1952  Colorado Sundown
1952  Oklahoma Annie
1952  Ride the Man Down
1952  The Last Musketeer
1953  Bandits of the West
1953  Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
1953  Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe
1953  El Paso Stampede
1953  Fair Wind to Java
1953  Invaders from Mars
1953  Jungle Drums of Africa
1953  Red River Shore
1954  Hell's Outpost
1954  Johnny Guitar
1954  Make Haste to Live
1954  Phantom Stallion
1954  The Shanghai Story
1954  Tobor the Great
1954  Trader Tom of the China Seas
1955  Carolina Cannonball
1955  Double Jeopardy
1955  Panther Girl of the Kongo
1955  The Eternal Sea
1956  A Woman's Devotion
1956  Lisbon
1956  Stranger at My Door
1957  Spoilers of the Forest
1962  The Underwater City
1965  The Flight of the Phoenix
1966  The Claw Monsters
1966  Way... Way Out

Visual Effects:
1965  Lost in Space

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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.