Name Dan Curry Role Visual Effects Producer | Education Middlebury College | |
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Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects - Series Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences Similar People Jeri Taylor, Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Mitch Suskin, Gary Hutzel | ||
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Dan Curry is a visual effects producer and supervisor, as well as a main title designer in the film and television industry.
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Curry attended Middlebury College in Vermont and graduate school at Humboldt State University in California.
He is most best for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise. His work on these series has earned him seven Emmy awards.
Starting on TNG, Curry used his experience as a martial artist to develop a fighting style for the fictional alien race known as the Klingons. He designed several Klingon hand-to-hand combat weapons, including the Sword of Kahless, the mek'leth, and - most notably - the bat'leth.
Curry also designed the title sequence for Star Trek Voyager.
He has also designed many memorable title sequences for feature films including Top Gun, Big Trouble in Little China, and ¡Three Amigos!. Curry has also worked as visual effects supervisor on the television series Chuck. As of 2015, he is also a member of the board of directors for the Hollywood Science Fiction Museum.