Joe Goss

Joe Goss
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Role:	Mechanical special effects
BSG Universe:	Original Series
Date of Birth:	November 13, 1914
Date of Death:	August 5, 2005
Age at Death:	90
Nationality:	USA
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Joe Goss (born Joseph Franklin Goss; 13 November 1914―5 August 2005) was an American special effects technician who worked on the special effects crew of the original Battlestar Galactica pilot, "Saga of a Star World," for which he shared a Primetime Emmy Award.

Career

Goss received a shared "special effects" screen credit on both the three-hour television version of the Battlestar Galactica pilot, "Saga of a Star World," and the edited theatrical feature released under the same title, alongside fellow special effects technician Karl G. Miller.

For his work on "Saga of a Star World," Goss shared the 1979 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Creative Technical Crafts with John Dykstra and director of miniature photography Richard Edlund. IMDb's awards record for the episode credits the win specifically to Goss's mechanical special effects work, as distinct from Dykstra's special effects coordination and Edlund's miniature photography.

According to his obituary, Goss worked in special effects for Universal Studio until his retirement. Goss's other credited special effects work included the disaster film The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979), on which he again received a "special effects" screen credit.

Personal life

Born on November 13, 1914, in Ray Township, Morgan County, Indiana, Goss was the son of Frederick William Goss (1890–1971) and Maude (Bloucher) Goss (1891–1972). He married Dorothy Nell Tritt (1926–1987) on July 6, 1945. She predeceased him. At the time of his death he was survived by a daughter, Linda M. Hunt of California, and two sisters, Bertha Haggard of Brownsburg, Indiana, and Geraldine Bastin of Martinsville, Indiana. He was also survived by four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Four brothers, Lafayette, Frederick "Bud," Dale, and John Goss, and a sister, Helen Frick, preceded him in death.

Among those the obituary names as having predeceased Goss, it lists sister Helen Gloe (Goss) Frick (1917–1980), brother Fred W. Goss (1923–1996), who appears to be the "Frederick 'Bud'" named in the obituary, and brother Dennis Dale Goss (1930–1980). Of the two sisters the obituary names as surviving him in 2005, Bertha Chloe (Goss) Haggard died later that same year (1917–2005) and Geraldine (Goss) Bastin as living until 2025 (1926–2025).

Goss died on August 5, 2005, in North Hollywood, California. Services were held on August 11, 2005, at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles County, California.

Notes

Goss's obituary lists his age at death as 91. Based on the birth and death dates given in the same obituary, November 13, 1914, to August 5, 2005, he would have been 90 at the time of death, as he had not yet reached his 91st birthday.

The obituary also states that Goss "received an Oscar for his work on the movie Battlestar Galactica." Both the Television Academy and IMDb document this award as a Primetime Emmy, not an Academy Award, shared with John Dykstra and Richard Edlund for the television production of Battlestar Galactica. The obituary's reference to an "Oscar" is not corroborated by either source. Goss's Find a Grave memorial repeats the same "Oscar" wording found in the obituary, indicating the two accounts share a common source rather than independently corroborating it.

No independent source could be located to confirm additional film or television screen credits for Goss beyond the two titles cited here.

References

External Sources

Crew (Original Series)

Cast & Crew

Jim AlexanderAnekeDavid S. ArthurDon BellisarioPeter BerkosBob BralverJim CarlsonRichard A. CollaSue CollinsSergio Fernandez DavilaTom DeFalcoJohn DykstraRichard EdlundVince EdwardsSusan FuttermanJoe GossRon GoulartJim GoyjerJavier Grillo-MarxuachAndy GuerdatDaniel HallerPatti HayesBill HolbrookRod HolcombJohn Ireland Jr.Steve KreinbergTony LeeAlan J. LeviBrad LinaweaverLane LiskaFrank LupoMike MayhewRoger McKenzieRalph McQuarrieMickey S. MichaelsDavid J. O'ConnellJames OlsonStu PhillipsMichael ResnickCharles SanfordGeorge SantoroDavid SchleinkoferLouise SimonsonMichael SloanJim StarlinLeslie StevensArdian SyafJohn Andrew TartagliaRobert ThurstonStan TimmonsHarker WadeGary B. WinterHerbert D. WoodsNicholas YermakovJames D. YoungGlen A. LarsonIvan WolfeJean-Pierre DorléacTerrence McDonnellWinrich Kolbe