Patrick Clancey

Patrick Clancey (born 6 January 1956; age 68) is a visual effects artist whose work as an employee during the Star Trek years at The Post Group (1986-1989, 1995-2001) and Digital Magic (1990-1994), included episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Pat Clancey (Starfleet), a name on a dedication plaque, was named after him. Clancey also worked as digital compositor on the 1991 television documentary Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special.

His work on Star Trek earned him the following Emmy Award nominations and win:

• 1991 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", shared with Robert Legato, Gary Hutzel, David Takemura, Steve Price, Michael Okuda, Erik Nash, Syd Dutton, Bill Taylor, and Don Lee
• 1992 Emmy Award for the episode "Conundrum", shared with Robert Legato, Gary Hutzel, David Takemura, Adrian Hurley, Adam Howard, Don Lee, and Dennis Hoerter
• 1995 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "The Jem'Hadar", shared with Glenn Neufeld, David Takemura, Erik Nash, Joshua Cushner, Les Bernstien, Adam Howard, and Don Lee

Clancey was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and graduated from the Carmel High School in 1974 and from the University of OJT in 1978. Since July 2002 he has been working as optical compositor for the company Efilm.

Clancey also received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 1990 in the category Outstanding Achievement in Videotape Editing for his work on CBS' Pee-wee's Playhouse and Emmy Award nominations in 2000 in the categories Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special and Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for The 72nd Annual Academy Awards and in 2003 in the category Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for his work on the television thriller Point of Origin, shared with Danny Mudgett.

Clancey started his career as an editor in the 1970s when he worked on The Alan Hamel Show (1976-1977) and The Rolf Harris Show (1978). In the 1980s he moved into the visual effects department and worked as visual effects compositor on television series such as Max Headroom, Mission: Impossible, Freddy's Nightmares, The Flash, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Among his first film credits are Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination (1991).

The following years, Clancey was employeed by The Post Group and contributed to projects such Titanic (1997), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Pushing Tin (1999), Brokedown Palace (1999), and Swordfish (2001).

Since then, Clancey has worked on over 200 film projects including Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003, starring Kristanna Loken), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Hellboy (2004, starring Ron Perlman and Doug Jones), Spider-Man 2 (2004, starring Kirsten Dunst), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Monster-in-Law (2005), Jarhead (2005), The Da Vinci Code (2006), World Trade Center (2006), Eragon (2006, starring Ed Speleers), Night at the Museum (2006), Planet Terror (2007), I Am Legend (2007), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Iron Man (2008), Sex and the City (2008, starring Kim Cattrall), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Frost/Nixon (2008, starring Frank Langella), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Angels & Demons (2009), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), Inglourious Basterds (2009), 2012 (2009), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), The A-Team (2010), Iron Man 2 (2010), Sex and the City 2 (2010, starring Kim Cattrall), CWater for Elephants (2011), Thor (2011, starring Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba), X-Men: First Class (2011), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Cowboys & Aliens (2011, written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), The Thing (2011), and Good Deeds (2012, written, directed, and starring Tyler Perry).

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External link[]

• Patrick Clancey at the Internet Movie Database