Rebecca Ramsey Dies: Visual Effects Producer On ‘Watchmen’, ‘Spider-Man 3’ & More Was 53

Bruce Haring
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Rebecca Ramsey, whose dozens of visual effects credits include Watchmen, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has died. She was 53. Ramsey passed on March 7 from complications related to a fall in her home, according to her longtime friend, Jenny McShane.

Ramsey was a producer and EP of VFX, VR/AR/MR, 3D stereo, design and motion graphics for features, TV, titles, commercials and new media. She was a board member for the Visual Effects Society for several years and a longtime member of the Producers Guild.

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At the time of her death she was working as the visual effects producer on the Warner Bros film Clouds, directed by Justin Baldoni and slated for release in 2021.

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Her resume spans more than a quarter-century also includes the films Life of Pi, Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. During her career she worked at Stargate Studios, Base Fx, Gradient Effects, Look Effects, Modern Videofilm, Hatch, Kaleidoscope Films, RGA/LA and Todd AO Digital.

Visual Effects Supervisor Jim Owens of TV’s This is Us included a photo of Ramsey on the Season 4 finale on March 24 as a tribute.

Survivors include her husband, Jeff Weber, mother Judith Ramsey, stepfather Jerry Kitz, and brother Michael Fujita Ramsey. No memorial plans have been announced.

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