The Rocketeer Minute Podcast

William Oliver Campbell is an American film and television actor. He first gained recognition for his recurring role as Luke Fuller in the TV series Dynasty. Since then, he became known for playing Rick Sammler on Once and Again, Det. Joey Indelli on Crime Story, Jordan Collier on The 4400, and Dr. Jon Fielding on the Tales of the City miniseries. His most notable films include The Rocketeer, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Enough. He portrayed Darren Richmond on the AMC television series The Killing, Detective John Cardinal in the CBC series Cardinal, and played Dr. Alan Farragut in the SyFy series Helix.

Joseph Eggleston Johnston II is an American film director and former visual effects artist best known for such effects-driven movies as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Jumanji (1995) and Jurassic Park III (2001). These movies include a number of period films such as The Rocketeer (1991), The Wolfman (2010), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). Johnston also directed the biographical drama October Sky (1999).

Danny Bilson is an American writer, director, and producer of movies, television, video games, and comic books. Together with his frequent collaborator, Paul DeMeo, he is best known as the writer for the film The Rocketeer (1991) and creator, writer, producer and director for the television series Viper (1994, 1996), The Sentinel (1996) and The Flash (1990). He has written multiple issues of the comic book The Flash, as well as scripts for multiple video games, including James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2003).

While actively working as a writer and producer, Bilson is also a tenured faculty member at the University of Southern California (USC), where he holds the positions of Director of USC Games and the Chair of USC’s School of Cinema’s Interactive Media and Games Division.

Joseph Eggleston Johnston II is an American film director and former visual effects artist best known for such effects-driven movies as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Jumanji (1995) and Jurassic Park III (2001). These movies include a number of period films such as The Rocketeer (1991), The Wolfman (2010), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). Johnston also directed the biographical drama October Sky (1999).

Joseph Eggleston Johnston II is an American film director and former visual effects artist best known for such effects-driven movies as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Jumanji (1995) and Jurassic Park III (2001). These movies include a number of period films such as The Rocketeer (1991), The Wolfman (2010), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). Johnston also directed the biographical drama October Sky (1999).

(Apologies for some audio clipping. We had a poor network connection that day).

Billy Campbell, The Rocketeer himself, is a good friend of Hal and Jim.

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“ANY OLD TIME”

“IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD”

“WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE”

“NIGHT AND DAY”

“EASY TO LOVE”

“BARRAGE”

“ALL DRESSED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO”

Written by OSCAR LEVANT and EDWARD HEYMAN

Soundtrack Available on HOLLYWOOD RECORDS

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Filmed in PANAVISION®

Produced and Distributed on EASTMAN FILM

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Best known to Rocketeer fans as Jeff, one of Eddie Valentine’s henchmen, Michael Milhoan started acting in TV series and starred in the series Something So Right, got leads in television movies The Princess and the Marine and A Loss of Innocence. He also recurred on 3rd Rock from the Sun. Apart from this, he has also made several guest appearances in several TV series.

Michael has worked in several notable and hit movies like Tin Cup (with Kevin Costner), Pearl Harbor, Collateral Damage, Anywhere but Here, Crimson Tide, Executive Decision, Phenomenon, Dreamweaver and Field Of Dreams.

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Neville Sinclair TIMOTHY DALTON

Amy’s career in theater and film has spanned more than 30 years, from Broadway to San Francisco Opera to George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic. She has worked as a Stage Technician (Lighting, Props, Grip, Costumes), Stage & Production Manager, Special Effects Pyrotechnician and Model Maker.

Some of her film credits include: Terminator 2, Star Trek VI, Star Trek Generations, Hook, Casper and The Rocketeer. (She was on the Pyro crew which blew up the zeppelin and the Hollywoodland sign and created a lot of other flame effects used in the film.)

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Negative Cutter BUENA VISTA NEGATIVE CUTTING

Color Timer BOB KAISER

Titles & Opticals PACIFIC TITLE

Main Title Graphics by SAXON / ROSS FILM DESIGN, INC.

DGA Trainee DAVID SPITZER

Production Assistants HENRY H. HAMMOND, KRISTINA H. JONES, DIANA VILKAITIS, DAVID DALE

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS by

Visual Effects Supervisor KEN RALSTON

Visual Effects Producer PATRICIA BLAU

Visual Effects Art Director JOHN BELL

Optical Photography Supervisors JOHN ELLIS, BRUCE VECCHITTO

Director of Photography PATRICK TURNER

Visual Effects Editor TIM EATON

Animation Supervisor WES FORD TAKAHASHI

Rotoscope Supervisor TOM BERTINO

Supervising Modelmaker STEVE GAWLEY

Efx Camera Matte Painting Supervisor BRUCE WALTERS

Executive in Charge of Production JIM MORRIS

Executive in Charge of Post Production ED L. JONES

General Manager SCOTT ROSS

Project Manager ED HIRSH

Visual Effects Coordinators PENNY RUNGE, ANNE CALANCHINI

Camera Operators PETER DAULTON, PAT SWEENEY, TERRY CHOSTNER

Stop Motion Animator TOM ST. AMAND

Camera Assistants VANCE PIPER, KATE O’NEILL, DAVID HANKS

Optical Camera Operators KENNETH SMITH, JAMES LIM, JEFF DORAN, JON ALEXANDER, KEITH JOHNSON, PAT REPOLA

Computer Graph., Digital Supervisors SANDRA R. FORD, STUART ROBERTSON

Film Scanner Operators JOSHUA PINES, RANDALL K. BEAN, JEFF B. LIGHT

Optical Line-Up TOM ROSSETER, PEG HUNTER, LORI NELSON, DAVID KARPMAN, JENNIFER LEE, JOHN WHISNANT

Chief Matte Painter MARK SULLIVAN

Animators CRISPY GREEN, ANTHONY STACCHI, CHARLIE CANFIELD, GORDON BAKER, LORING DOYLE, KEVIN COFFEY