John Carl Buechler

John Carl Buechler was born on Jun 18, 1952 in USA. John Carl Buechler's big-screen debut came with Stingray directed by Richard Taylor in 1978. John Carl Buechler is known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade directed by Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford stars as Indiana Jones and Sean Connery as Professor Henry Jones. John Carl Buechler has got 3 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award John Carl Buechler achieved is Austin Fantastic Fest. The upcoming new movie John Carl Buechler plays is Pulse Pounders which will be released on Aug 11, 2012.

When he ran the make-up effects department at New World Pictures, Roger Corman called John Carl Buechler "...the best in the business..." An actor, writer, producer, director, special effects artist, he was always in love with filmmaking, and was the first person in history to make his way into the director's chair by way of make-up effects superstardom.John Carl Buechler was born in Belleville, Illinois. As someone who went the entire nine yards, he made his name as an accomplished writer, producer, director and special effects artist. Since his early years, Buechler was thrilled with a passion of special effects and formed his own company, Mechanical Imageries Inc., for creating special effects for a handful of motion pictures in the science fiction and horror/fantasy genre. Although he was known for his fascinating make-up work, as a director, Buechler made his debut on an anthology fantasy film entitled Mestema, le maître du Donjon (1984). A year later, he directed and also designed the special effects for another fantasy film called Troll (1986), which became a major success during its theatrical release in 1986. Troll (1986), Mestema, le maître du Donjon (1984) and another Buehcler-directed effort, Cellar Dweller (1987), were films that were produced by Charles Band's then-collapsing Empire Pictures, in which Buechler often worked on dozens of Band's films as an effects artist. His work as a director led him to direct the seventh sequel to the ever famous Vendredi 13 (1980) for Paramount Pictures. Vendredi 13, chapitre 7: Un nouveau défi (1988), like its many sequels was another box-office success, even though Buechler at the time was skeptical about directing the film. In later years, Buechler has continued on his long accomplished work in special effects and many of his directorial efforts were released to directly to video. Premiere Magazine quoted him as saying, "if you can pull a performance out of a piece of latex, you can do it with actors...."He died on March 18, 2019.