Pons Maar

Pons Maar

Born: August 4, 1951
in Pensacola, Florida, USA
Pons Maar is originally from Florida where he studied ceramics and visual art. After moving to San Francisco he became a fixture on the local arts scene as a graphic designer and performance artist, and, as a musician, playing in a couple of art/punk bands. At one of his solo performances of 'Natural Enemies' he was seen by Oscar-winning Sound Designer/Editor Walter Murch and cast as the Lead Wheeler in Walter's first directing effort Return to Oz (1985). Pons acted in the film as well as serving as the Performance Coordinator, starting what was to become a pattern of working on both sides of the camera. Following with other non-human roles in Golden Child (1987) and Masters of the Universe (1988) he continued to delve deeper into extreme latex makeup and huge, hot, and heavy creature and fantasy character suits. After the full 65 episode run on the TV show Dinosaurs (1991) and playing the lead character in Theodore Rex (1995). Pons then focused on Coordinating Puppets and Creatures in various feature films and TV productions.

Pons served as the Co-Head of the Screen Actor's Guild Puppeteer Committee from 2003-2005. During this time he and co-head, Kevin Carlson, were able to change the puppeteer's status from a caucus to a full committee.

Currently (2017) he is a partner in TASTY NAME a boutique video production company based in Alameda, CA.

Movies for Pons Maar...

Remembering Return to Oz
Title: Remembering Return to Oz
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: Movie
The gathered memories and warm recollections of the cast and crew of the 1985 Walt Disney Pictures film, RETURN TO OZ. For the first time, we get intimate details about the production of the cult classic fantasy, from such names as director Walter Murch, producers Paul Maslansky and Colin Michael Kitchens, the late Gary Kurtz, and actors Fairuza Balk, Emma Ridley, Justin Case, Pons Marr, Deep Roy and Sophie Ward.
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Theodore Rex
Title: Theodore Rex
Character: Theodore Rex (performer)
Released: December 14, 1995
Type: Movie
In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon.
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Oua Oua
Title: Oua Oua
Character: Lip Syncing
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
"Recorded live in performance at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. The audience saw the performer and this projected video. The video was created live in "real time" - ET
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The Blob
Title: The Blob
Character: Theatre Manager
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: Movie
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, the trio witness the Blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and the police refuse to believe the kids without proof.
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Dead Heat
Title: Dead Heat
Character: Pool Zombie
Released: May 6, 1988
Type: Movie
Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.
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The American Scream
Title: The American Scream
Character: Ben Benziger
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
An American family takes their classic Christmas vacation at a perfect mountain resort, but the strange residents of Wilson Creek seem to have something else planned... something gruesome.
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My Puberty
Title: My Puberty
Released: November 6, 1987
Type: Movie
Segalove re-enacts the trials and travails of her desperate, hormonal, pubescent years with actors dancing their way through what looks like a techni-color version of the Cleaver’s backyard. She plays herself, getting questionable advice from girlfriends, begging her mother for a bra and falling in love for the first time, with Moondoggie in Gidget Goes Hawaiian.
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Masters of the Universe
Title: Masters of the Universe
Character: Saurod
Released: August 7, 1987
Type: Movie
The world of Eternia in the aftermath of Skeletor's war on Castle Grayskull, which he has won after seizing Grayskull and the surrounding city using a cosmic key developed by the locksmith Gwildor. The Sorceress is now Skeletor's prisoner and he begins to drain her life-force as he waits for the moon of Eternia to align with the Great Eye of the Universe that will bestow god-like power upon him.
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The Golden Child
Title: The Golden Child
Character: Fu
Released: December 12, 1986
Type: Movie
After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."
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Return to Oz
Title: Return to Oz
Character: Lead Wheeler / Nome Messenger
Released: June 21, 1985
Type: Movie
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
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Citizen
Title: Citizen
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A group of anonymous young people embark on an apparently random journey through a disjointed San Francisco cityscape. Along their travels they encounter a succession of madmen and eccentrics, portrayed by various West Coast performance artists, whose impassioned monologues and improvisations satirize the institutions of contemporary American society.
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Digital Dance
Title: Digital Dance
Character: Dancer
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A figure performs a dance to disco and beautiful abstractions are created.