Portrait of H. R. Giger

H. R. Giger

Acting

Biography

Hans Ruedi was a Swiss painter, whose style was adapted for many forms of media, including record albums, furniture and tattoos. The Zurich-based artist was best known for airbrush images of humans and machines linked together in a cold biomechanical relationship. Later he abandoned airbrush work for pastels, markers, and ink.

Born: February 5, 1940

Place of Birth: Chur, Switzerland

Filmography

2016
Traceroute

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Jodorowsky's Dune

as Self - Artist

2009
2002
1999
1979
1975
Giger's Necronomicon

as Self - Narrator

1974
1972
Passagen

as Self

1969
Swissmade

as (segment "2069")

1967
Home-Killer

as Man in Black