Cantwell got his most popular mission subsequent to dealing with two other science fiction films, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
His accomplice affirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that he kicked the bucket on Saturday at his Colorado home.
Colin Cantwell thought of the models for the first Star Wars films – with different specialists fostering the famous plans further.
He landed the position subsequent to chipping away at other science fiction works of art, in particular Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Cantwell was likewise a PC designs specialist on the 1983 film War Games.
Brought into the world in 1932 in San Francisco, he concentrated on movement at the University of California in LA and furthermore went to Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous School of Architecture.
During the 1960s, he made instructive projects for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, so individuals could more readily comprehend space flights.
He likewise went about as a go-between giving live updates to US newsreader Walter Cronkite during his well known moon landing broadcast in 1969.
As well as his film work, he composed two sci-fi books.
