Russell Shearman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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US special effects artist
Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1905
Place of Birth: United States of America, United States
Date of Death: 05-May-1956
Profession: artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Russell Shearman
- Russell Shearman (died May 5, 1956) was an American special effects artist.
- He won a Technical Achievement Award at the 19th Academy Awards in 1946 along with the RKO Radio Studio Special Effects Dept. for the development of a new method of simulating falling snow on motion picture sets for It's a Wonderful Life.
- It's a Wonderful Life won just the one Academy Award, in the Technical Achievement category for developing a new method of creating artificial snow.
- Before It's a Wonderful Life, fake movie snow was mostly made from cornflakes painted white and it was so loud when stepped on that any snow-filled scenes with dialogue had to be re-dubbed afterwards.
- RKO studio's head of special effects, Russell Sherman, developed a new compound, utilizing water, soap flakes, foamite and sugar.
- He won an Academy Award during the 21st Academy Awards for Best Special Effects.
- He won for the film Portrait of Jennie.
- He shared his win with Paul Eagler, Charles L.
- Freeman, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Clarence Slifer and James G.
- Stewart.
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