Ray Harryhausen

Visual effects creator

Diane said: “Ray was awoken in the middle of the night by a fire alarm in his hotel and his first instinct was to rush to the hotel safe to collect the famous fighting skeletons from Jason And The Argonauts, which he’d kindly brought to illustrate his talk.

“Ray’s lovely wife, Diana, later joked that his thoughts had been with the skeletons, leaving her to make her own way to safety!”