Former ‘MythBusters’ & ‘White Rabbit Project’ Host Was 49

https://deadline.com/2020/07/grant-imahara-dead-former-mythbusters-white-rabbit-project-host-was-49-1202984987/

Grant Imahara, a former MythBusters and White Rabbit Project host who earlier worked as a modelmaker for Industrial Light + Magic, died Monday. He was 49. Imahara co-hosted more than 200 episodes of Discovery’s MythBusters starting with Season 3 in 2005 and remained with the show until 2014. He had made a handful of appearances since.

Former longtime Mythbusters host Adam Savage tweeted tonight: “I’m at a loss. No words. I’ve been part of two big families with Grant Imahara over the last 22 years. Grant was a truly brilliant engineer, artist and performer, but also just such a generous, easygoing, and gentle PERSON. Working with Grant was so much fun. I’ll miss my friend.”

Born on October 23, 1970, in Los Angeles, Imahara had a background in robotics and physics when joined Lucasfilm’s THX and later moved to its VFX unit ILM. During his nearly decade-long tenure, he worked on films in such blockbuster movies as Jurassic Park, The Matrix, The Terminator, xXx and the reissues of the original Star Wars trilogy. His ILM credits also include Galaxy Quest, Van Helsing and Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence.