Biography
Ron Cobb was an American-Australian artist, cartoonist and production designer. Born in Los Angeles on 21 September 1937, he began his career in the mid-1950s as an inbetweener and breakdown artist on the Disney animated feature Sleeping Beauty. He later worked as a political cartoonist before moving to Sydney, Australia, in 1972.
Cobb contributed concept art to films including Alien (1979), Star Wars (1977) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). He served as production designer on Conan the Barbarian (1982), The Running Man (1987) and Leviathan (1989). He directed the 1992 Australian comedy Garbo and died in Sydney on 21 September 2020.
