Biography
John Bruno is an American visual effects artist and filmmaker known for his prolific collaborations with director James Cameron on films like Terminator 2: Judgement Day, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar, and The Abyss, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. He has also contributed to other blockbuster films, including Ghostbusters, Batman Returns, Cliffhanger, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Kingsman: The Secret Service. He also directed the 1999 science fiction horror film Virus, st...
Known For
Complete Filmography

All the Little Things We Kill
2021
Line Producer
A college professor takes her students hostage to force the passage of a bill that bans semi-automatic weapons.

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020
as Self
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.

Kingsman: The Secret Service
2015
Visual Effects Supervisor
The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program ...

Deepsea Challenge 3D
2014
Director
Described as being a film about determination, danger and the ocean’s greatest depths, James Cameron's "Deepsea Challenge 3D" tells the story of Camer...

Hercules
2014
Visual Effects Supervisor
When a new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules must lead his fearless team of warriors in a battle against overwhelming odds.

Movie 43
2013
Visual Effects
A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest ...

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012
Visual Effects Supervisor
After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in fron...

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2011
Visual Effects Supervisor
Bella Swan and Edward Cullen's honeymoon phase is abruptly disrupted by betrayals and unforeseen tragedies that endanger their world.

Season of the Witch
2011
Visual Effects Design Consultant
A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witc...

Avatar
2009
Visual Effects Supervisor
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecti...

Monsters vs Aliens
2009
Thanks
When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The m...

Rush Hour 3
2007
Visual Effects Design Consultant
After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous...

X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
Visual Effects Supervisor
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mut...

AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004
Visual Effects Supervisor
When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they k...

Ghosts of the Abyss
2003
Producer
With a team of the world's foremost historic and marine experts as well as friend Bill Paxton, James Cameron embarks on an unscripted adventure back t...

Virus
1999
Director
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be des...

Imagining 'Heavy Metal'
1999
as Self
Documentary about the making of "Heavy Metal" (1981).

Titanic
1997
Visual Effects
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fian...
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time
1996
Director
Three freedom fighters attack a large corporation to prevent a future apocalypse.

True Lies
1994
as Custodian
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with ...

True Lies
1994
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with ...

Cliffhanger
1993
Visual Effects Supervisor
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to r...

Batman Returns
1992
Visual Effects Supervisor
Batman must face The Penguin, a sewer-dwelling gangleader intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Meanwhile, another Gotham resident finds hers...

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
Visual Effects Designer
Set ten years after the events of the original, James Cameron’s classic sci-fi action flick tells the story of a second attempt to get rid of rebellio...

The Abyss
1989
Visual Effects Supervisor
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself o...

Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
1988
Storyboard
Based on the popular line of plush dolls, this fun-filled feature follows Pound Puppies Cooler, Whopper (and Big Paw), and company as they try to trac...

Poltergeist II: The Other Side
1986
Visual Effects Art Director
The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast ...

Fright Night
1985
Visual Effects Art Director
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; ...

Ghostbusters
1984
Visual Effects Art Director
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who...

Poltergeist
1982
Animation Supervisor
Upon realizing that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve Freeling calls in a team of parapsychologists to help before it's too late.

Heavy Metal
1981
Visual Effects Director, Sequence Supervisor, Special Effects
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
1976
Animation
Raggedy Ann and Andy, along with other toys, reside in the nursery of a little girl named Marcella. During Marcella's seventh birthday, Babette, from ...

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
1974
Animation
Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream abou...

Shinbone Alley
1970
Animation
Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part of...

Virus: Ghost in the Machine
N/A
as Self
A look behind the scenes: making the 1999 film Virus