Colin Cantwell
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Colin Cantwellthe man who designed spaceships in the Star Wars films at the age of 90, reported The Hollywood Reporter. Sierra DalCantwell’s partner, confirmed he died this Saturday, the 21st, at his home in Colorado.
Cantwell designed the prototypes for the XWing Starfighter, TIE Fighter, and Death Star. He has also worked on films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and War Games.
He was born in San Francisco in 1932. Before working on Hollywood films, Cantwell attended University of California in Los Angeles, where he received his animation degree while attending the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.
In the 1960s he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA on flight training programs. Cantwell worked with NASA to provide Walter Cronkite’s updates during the 1969 moon landing. Cantwell wrote two science fiction novels.