GENEVA (AFP) - Swiss surrealist designer Hans Ruedi Giger, who won an Oscar for the monster he created for Ridley Scott's film Alien, has died at the age of 74, media reported. He died yesterday ...

It was 4.30 pm. Time for the call of the month. Namely, with the Swiss artist, surrealist and creator of Alien, H.R. Giger. After a few brief words of greeting and some questions about OutNow.CH, we ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...

OSCAR winning artist H R Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic fil Alien, has died after a fall. Hans Ruedi Giger, 74, a surrealist artist, died in hospital on ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger who designed the monster and revolutionary sci-fi sets for the film "Alien" has died, his museum said on Tuesday. He was 74. Giger, who was born ...

Swiss surrealist designer Hans Ruedi Giger, who won an Oscar for the monster he created for Ridley Scott's "Alien", has died, a museum dedicated to his work said Tuesday. The HR Giger Museum in the ...

Before the blood-chilling monster in "Alien" was designed by H.R. Giger, a couple of other ideas were considered that were cumbersome or downright bizarre.