Ken Pepiot

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Ken Pepiot
Pepiot with his wife in 2016
Born	Kenneth Dale Pepiot (1943-04-04) April 4, 1943 (age 83)
Occupation	Special effects supervisor
Years active	1976–2005

Kenneth Dale Pepiot (born April 4, 1943) is an American special effects supervisor. Specialist in pyrotechnics and special effects, he participated in more than forty films between 1976 and 2005. He worked on Carrie, Scarface, Beverly Hills Cop and Planet of the Apes.

Biography

Kenneth Dale Pepiot, a native of Ohio, is a descendant of Pierre Joseph Aimé Pepiot and Marie Célestine Pequignot, immigrants who arrived from Franche-Comté, France, in 1836.

Pepiot entered the industry in 1976 as assistant special effects on Brian De Palma's Carrie. He went on to serve as special effects director on the NBC miniseries Beulah Land (1980) and as special effects supervisor on The Right Stuff (1983).

One of his most notable contributions is his work on Scarface (1983), where he and Stan Parks co-invented a gun-synchronizer device that aligned firearm triggers with the camera shutter, ensuring muzzle flashes were reliably captured on film. Cinematographer John A. Alonzo noted that this eliminated costly post-production rotoscoping, while director Brian De Palma highlighted its effectiveness in the film's climactic shootout sequences.

Nominations

• 1991: Nominated for the Saturn Awards (alongside Rick Baker and Dennis Michelson) for Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• 2000: OFTA Film Award nomination for Cast Away

Filmography

References

External links

• Ken Pepiot at IMDb