Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart was a visual effects photographer who worked as director of photography for the photographic effects on  in, while employed by Douglas Trumbull's Future General Corporation. For his work he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Effects, Visual Effects in, shared with Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Yuricich, Robert Swarthe, and Grant McCune.

Born as David K. Stewart in he was responsible for the UFO photography on 's 1977 science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind where he worked in the visual effects department of Future General Corporation with fellow artists David Berry, Cy Didjurgis, Don Dow, Jim Dow, Glenn Erickson, Rocco Gioffre, Joyce Goldberg, Larry Albright, Mona Thal Benefiel, David Gold, David R. Hardberger, Alan Harding, Jack Hinkle, Robert Hollister, Thomas Hollister, Paul Huston, Joseph A. Ippolito, Don Jarel, Gregory Jein, Tom Koester, Michael McMillen, Bill Millar, Alvah J. Miller, Harry Moreau, Conne Morgan, Max Morgan, Bruce Nicholson, George Polkinghorne, Robert Shepherd, Scott Squires, Robert Swarthe, Ken Swenson, Don Trumbull, Douglas Trumbull, Hoyt Yeatman, Matthew Yuricich, Richard Yuricich, Gregory L. McMurry, Christopher S. Ross (who was an intern at the time), and Jonathan Seay. Most of them also worked on Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

The following years he worked as visual and special effects unit director of photography on 's science fiction film Blade Runner (1982), 's crime drama The Outsiders (1983), Douglas Trumbull's science fiction thriller Brainstorm (1983), the science fiction film 2010 (1984), the science fiction film Solarbabies (1986), and the thriller The Hunt for Red October (1990).

After his work as miniature photography director on 's science fiction sequel Alien³ in 1992, Stewart worked as director of photography for Mass Illusion on the science fiction film Judge Dredd (1995) and the action film Eraser (1996, starring Vanessa Williams) and for Boss Film Studios on the action thriller Turbulence (1997) and the action film Air Force One (1997).

Prior to his death in, caused by a heart attack, he completed his work as miniatures cinematographer on the science fiction thriller Event Horizon.