# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-ralston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:52:52.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-ralston"
name: "Ken Ralston"
slug: "ken-ralston"
description: "Kenneth Ralston is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his career at the commercial animation and visual effects company, Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s. In 1976, he was hired at Industrial Light & Magic by Dennis Muren to help George Lucas create the effects for Star Wars. He remained at ILM for 20 years before joining Sony Pictures Imageworks as president. Ralston is best known for his work in the films of Robert Zemeckis."
tagline: "Motion picture visual effects artist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/288bUNpDXljQsN0XACJGyyIn4Az.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump