Ken Palkow

Ken Palkow's career in the film industry actually began while sitting in front of the TV, as a child, watching shows like... Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999, and Buck Rogers. His love for science fiction would ultimately take him to Hollywood as a special effects, weapons, and prop fabricator.

He's built everything from serum canisters in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Kate Beckinsale's weapons in Underworld: Awakening, Colonial sidearms in Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, to the Riptide sword in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. Some of Ken's more recent projects include building the Federation phasers and alien weapons for Star Trek Into Darkness, weapons for the Robocop remake, Karl Urban's weapons and props for the TV series Almost Human, all kinds of gadgets for the new Godzilla, And all the gold tablets of Ahkmenrah for Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.