Rick Porras is an American producer, notably co-producing The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Stanford University, graduating in 1988 with a degree in history.
He had a cameo appearance with Peter Jackson and other crew members in the special extended edition of The Return of the King as a Corsair pirate.
Filmography
Producer
- Contact (1997): Associate producer
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001): Co-producer
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002): Co-producer
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): Co-producer
- Cártel, El (2006): Executive producer
Miscellaneous crew
- Death Becomes Her (1992): Production associate
- The Public Eye (1992): assistant to Robert Zemeckis
- Forrest Gump (1994): Archival Research Coordinator
- No Fate But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects (2003): Special thanks
- Big Dreams Little Tokyo (2006): Special thanks
Production manager
- Forrest Gump (1992): Post-production supervisor
- The Frighteners (1996): Post-production supervisor
Second unit director
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001): Additional second-unit director
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Actor
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) - Gollums Stand-in
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - Eldacar (uncredited)
- King Kong (2005) - Gunner #2
External links
- Rick Porras at IMDb
