Bio — Garrett Brown

Showing off c. 1985 (directors have yet to request this shot)

Brown and Stallone compare notes at the top of the Art Museum Steps on Rocky II

Pursuing Wendy and Danny through the salt (900 tons of dairy salt standing in for snow) on The Shining

GB c. 1995

GB with fully extended Steadicam Ultra

Old-style moving camera hardware meets Steadicam prototype on Bound for Glory in 1975.

Brown with his much-traveled vest and Arri BL on Fame

Rocky

On Wolfen with Albert Finney and Director Michael Wadleigh (the ruined church in the background is a set -- built from scratch

Best job in the business: making turbulence on Twilight Zone. (you can not make a mistake!)

With special effects wizard Dennis Muren in the redwoods, shooting background plates for the speeder bike sequence in Return of the Jedi

On Four Friends in Chicago with Arthur Penn

On the camera car with Vittorio Storaro before being humbled by Spanish potholes on Reds

Stabilizing a buckboard for Little House on the Prairie in 1978

The rope bridge sequence on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (in Sri Lanka)

The first motion picture Skycam included a Panavision camera and worked on four movies in 1984. It won a technical Oscar in 2005.

Brown and Rockettes display perfect form on Annie

The notorious Elephant Trunk first non-functional factory prototype

Garrett Brown is best known as the Oscar-winning inventor of the Steadicam™. He has shot with it on nearly 100 movies including Rocky, The Shining and Return of the Jedi. View Garrett Brown Filmography

Garrett holds 50 patents worldwide for devices which include the Steadicam Merlin, a miniature version for camcorders; Skycam, the robot camera that flies on wires over sporting events; and Mobycam, Divecam, Flycam et al that pursue athletes worldwide. His new zeroG technology "floats" tools and reduces workplace injuries.

In past lives Garrett has recorded for MGM as a folksinger (www.BrownandDana.com), sold Volkswagens, directed TV commercials and made films for Sesame Street, and his voice was the other half of that well-known ad-lib duo on radio for Molson and American Express (*www.TwoVoices.com).

He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, the Directors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Garrett joined the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2009, and is a 2013 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

*Named by Ad Age as one of 100 "Best Ad Campaigns of the Century" (#78)