Rick Porras

Rick Porras is an American producer, notably co-producing The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Stanford University, graduating in 1988 with a degree in history.

He had a cameo appearance with Peter Jackson and other crew members in the special extended edition of The Return of the King as a Corsair pirate.

Producer

 * Contact (1997): Associate producer
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001): Co-producer
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002): Co-producer
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): Co-producer
 * Cártel, El (2006): Executive producer

Miscellaneous crew

 * Death Becomes Her (1992): Production associate
 * The Public Eye (1992): assistant to Robert Zemeckis
 * Forrest Gump (1994): Archival Research Coordinator
 * No Fate But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects (2003): Special thanks
 * Big Dreams Little Tokyo (2006): Special thanks

Production manager

 * Forrest Gump (1992): Post-production supervisor
 * The Frighteners (1996): Post-production supervisor

Second unit director

 * The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001): Additional second-unit director
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Actor

 * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) - Gollums Stand-in
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - Eldacar (uncredited)
 * King Kong (2005) - Gunner #2