A Tribute to Matthew J.Yuricich

It is with great pleasure that I present today’s special tribute… to one of the least ever screen credited, some might even say, criminally under-credited though without a doubt incredibly industrious movie matte magicians – Matthew Yuricich. I have a large number of great matte shots images here, which as usual I’m forced to go through and prune the material to a reasonable length.

If ever there was an utterly unforgettable snapshot of a film technician in the old Hollywood era, it has got to be this wonderful picture at left of Matthew with a certain Marilyn Monroe, taken at a Fox studio function in the mid fifties. The photo, courtesy of Rocco Gioffre is humouresly inscribed “To Rocco…eat your heart out…Matt Yuricich”. A gem! It’s been difficult over the years in trying to put together an accurate list of film credits for Matthew, with even imdb being somewhat lean in film credits until fairly recently when I noticed a number of hitherto unknown titles starting to appear on Matt’s listing. Naturally none of this is helped by the fact that Matt barely ever received any sort of screen mention of any kind as he was never a head of department – at least not until very late in his career in the late 80’s…

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