Philip Barberio was a visual effects artist who served as a camera operator on the special photographic effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Fifteen years later, he would return to the franchise to serve as visual effects coordinator on "Caretaker", the pilot episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
His work on The Motion Picture was his first Hollywood project. He went on to serve in the effects department for various science fiction movies, including Blade Runner, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Ghost Busters, The Blob, and The Abyss. He also worked on opticals for 1992's Waxwork II: Lost in Time (starring Zach Galligan and Marina Sirtis) and served as visual effects coordinator on the pilot TV movie for The Flash. More recently, he was visual effects supervisor on the TV series The Sentinel from 1996 through 1999.
Barberio died of multiple myeloma on May 8, 2006. He was 60 years old.
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