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Douglas Trumbull (April 8, 1942, Los Angeles, California) is an American director. Trumbull directed two memorable sci-fi features, Brainstorm (1983) and Silent Running (1971), in addition to lending his special-effects expertise to such enduring genre titles as Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), The Andromeda Strain (1971), Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).