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Don Glut
Donald F. Glut (; born February 19, 1944) is an American writer, motion picture film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for writing The Empire Strikes Back (novel), the novelization of the second ''Star Wars'' film, ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980). Filmmaker Amateur career From 1953 to 1969, Glut made a total of 41 amateur films, on subjects ranging from dinosaurs, to unauthorized adaptations of such characters as Superman, Spirit (comics), The Spirit, and Spider-Man (1969 film), Spider-Man. Due to publicity he received in the pages of Forrest J Ackerman's magazine ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'', Glut was able to achieve a degree of notoriety based on his work. This allowed him to increase the visibility of his films by obtaining the services of known actors such as Kenne Duncan and Glenn Strange, who reprised his most famous role as the Frankenstein Monster for Glut. His final amateur film was 1969's ''Spider-Man'', after which he moved into professional work ful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pecos, Texas
Pecos ( ) is the largest city in and the county seat of Reeves County, Texas, Reeves County, Texas, United States. It is in the valley on the west bank of the Pecos River at the eastern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert, in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas and just south of New Mexico's border. Its population was 12,916 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. On January 24, 2012, Pecos City appeared on the ''Forbes'' 400 as the second-fastest growing small town in the United States. The city is a regional commercial center for ranching, oil and gas production, and agriculture. The city is most recognized for its association with the local cultivation of cantaloupes. Pecos claims to be the site of the world's first rodeo on July 4, 1883. History Pecos is one of the numerous towns in West Texas organized around a train depot during the construction of the Texas and Pacific Railway. These towns were subsequently linked by the construction of U.S. Route 80 in Texas, U.S. High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirit (comics)
The Spirit is a fictional masked crimefighter appearing in American comic books. Created by cartoonist Will Eisner, he first appeared as the main feature of a tabloid (paper size), tabloid-sized comic book insert distributed in the Sunday edition of Register and Tribune Syndicate newspapers. Popularly referred to as "The Spirit Section", the insert ran from June 2, 1940 to October 5, 1952. The Spirit is the alias of Denny Colt, a private investigator and criminologist based in the fictional Central City, who falls into suspended animation while trying to apprehend the mad scientist Dr. Cobra. Legal death, Officially pronounced dead, Colt revives after being interred in Wildwood Cemetery. With the blessing of his old friend, police Commissioner Eustace Dolan, Colt becomes a domino mask-wearing "Vigilantism, friendly outlaw" who pursues criminals that might otherwise escape capture by traditional law enforcement. The Spirit usually does not possess any Superpower (ability), superpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Warren (film Historian And Critic)
William Bond Warren (April 26, 1943 – October 7, 2016) was an American film historian, critic, and one of the leading authorities on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films. Early life and education Warren was born in North Bend, Oregon and grew up in Gardiner on the Umpqua River. He became interested in science fiction films during the genre's first boom period in the 1950s after seeing '' The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951). Discovering ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' with its first issues, he received regular acknowledgments and thanks as a contributor throughout the early years of the magazine, along with Don Glut, Eric Hoffman, and Mark Thomas McGee. Move to Los Angeles Warren and his wife Beverly moved to Los Angeles in 1966. As an assistant to science fiction agent, editor, and collector Forrest J Ackerman, Warren came into contact with major filmmakers-in-waiting, also inspired by Ackerman; he went on to develop personal friendships with several of them. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Davids
Paul Davids is an American independent filmmaker and writer, especially in the area of science fiction. Often collaborating with his wife Hollace, Davids has written and directed several films. He has also written episodes for the television series ''Transformers'' as well as a spin-off of the ''Star Wars'' series with his wife informally known as the '' Jedi Prince'' series. Screenwriting Television * '' The Transformers'' (1985–1986) * '' Defenders of the Earth'' (1986) * '' Bionic Six'' (1987) * '' Spiral Zone'' (1987) * '' Garbage Pail Kids'' (1988) * '' COPS'' (1988) * '' Transformers: Generation 2'' (1993) Films * '' Roswell'' (1994), a documentary about the Roswell UFO incident * ''Timothy Leary's Dead'' (1997) * ''Starry Night'' (1999), a film about Van Gogh * ''The Sci-Fi Boys'' (2006) documentary called featuring interviews with Forry Ackerman, Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, and many more sci-fi notables. * ''Jesus in India The Movie'' (2008) – a documentary on " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Shaw
Scott Shaw (born 23 September 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author, martial artist, musician, and filmmaker. Career Scott Shaw is an advanced martial artist. He has written a number of articles and books on the martial arts and on Zen Buddhism and eastern philosophy. Shaw is an active actor and filmmaker. In collaboration with American filmmaker Donald G. Jackson he created a style of filmmaking where no screenplay and scripts are used in the creation of a movie. He titled this style of filmmaking, "Zen Filmmaking." Works Partial bibliography *''About Peace'' () *''Advanced Taekwondo'' () *''Alles op Zen tijd'' () *''Arc Left from Istanbul: A Photographic Exploration'' () *''Bangkok and the Nights of Drunken Stupor'' () *''Bangkok: Beyond the Buddha'' () *''Bus Rides'' () *''Cairo Before the Aftermath: A Photographic Exploration'' () *''Cambodian Refugees in Long Beach, California: The Definitive Study'' () *''Čchi-kung pro začátečníky'' () *''Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Harmon
James Judson Harmon (21 April 1933 – 16 February 2010), better known as Jim Harmon, was an American short story author and popular culture historian who wrote extensively about the Golden Age of Radio. He sometimes used the pseudonym Judson Grey, and occasionally he was labeled Mr. Nostalgia. Fiction During the 1950s and 1960s, Harmon wrote more than 50 short stories and novelettes for ''Amazing Stories'', '' Future Science Fiction'', '' Galaxy Science Fiction'', '' If'', ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', '' Venture Science Fiction Magazine'' and other magazines. These were collected in such science fiction anthologies as ''Fourth Galaxy Reader'', ''Galaxy: Thirty Years of Speculative Fiction'' and ''Rare Science Fiction''. The best of Harmon's science fiction stories were reprinted in ''Harmon's Galaxy'' (Cosmos Books, 2004) with an introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. The collection includes one from the December 1962 issue of ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Burns III
Bob Burns (born May 12, 1935) is an American actor, consultant, producer, archivist and historian of props, costumes, and other paraphernalia from science fiction, fantasy, and horror motion pictures. He is notable for his work with and collection of movie props, particularly from horror and science-fiction movies. He has also had numerous acting roles, including Tracy the Gorilla in the 1975 television show '' The Ghost Busters''. Bob's Basement "Bob's Basement" is the informal name given to Burns's collection of props, costumes, and other memorabilia. The ''New York Times'' stated that it could be described as the "premier film museum in the Los Angeles area, though it is not open to the public and has no regular hours." Notable contents include the last surviving 18-inch armature model used in the animation sequences of the original 1933 King Kong movie, costumes from several of the Republic Pictures serials of the 1940s (including Roy Barcroft's costume from ''The Purple Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randal Kleiser
John Randal Kleiser (born July 20, 1946) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for directing the films ''Grease (film), Grease'' (1978), ''The Blue Lagoon (1980 film), The Blue Lagoon'' (1980), ''Flight of the Navigator'' (1986) and ''White Fang (1991 film), White Fang'' (1991). Biography John Randal Kleiser was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, the son of Harriet Kelly (née Means) and Dr. John Raymond Kleiser. He has two younger brothers. Kleiser attended Radnor High School on the Philadelphia Main Line. As a freshman at the University of Southern California, he appeared in George Lucas' student film ''Freiheit (film), Freiheit''. (Kleiser also lived in the house that Lucas was renting at the time.) Kleiser graduated in 1968. His award-winning Master's thesis film, the 1973 short ''Peege'' about a grandson's bond with his ailing grandmother, launched his career and was selected for preservation by the United States Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankenstein Monster
Frankenstein's monster, commonly referred to as Frankenstein, is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' as its main antagonist. Shelley's title compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay and gave them fire. In Shelley's Gothic story, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method based on a scientific principle he discovered. Shelley describes the monster as tall and emotional. The monster attempts to fit into human society but is shunned, which leads him to seek revenge against Frankenstein. According to the scholar Joseph Carroll, the monster occupies "a border territory between the characteristics that typically define protagonists and antagonists". Frankenstein's monster became iconic in popular culture, and has been featured in various forms of media, including films, te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Strange
George Glenn Strange (August 16, 1899 – September 20, 1973) was an American actor who appeared in hundreds of Western (genre), Western films. He played Sam Noonan, the bartender on Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS's ''Gunsmoke'' television series, and Frankenstein's monster in three Universal Pictures, Universal films during the 1940s. Early life Strange was born in Weed, New Mexico, Weed, New Mexico Territory,Raw, Laurence (2012)"Glenn Strange", ''Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930–1960'' (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2012), p. 175. Retrieved October 29, 2017. the fourth child of William Russell Strange and the former Sarah Eliza Byrd. An eighth-generation grandson of Pocahontas and John Rolfe through his maternal grandfather, he was also a cousin of actors Rex Allen and Lee 'Lasses' White. Of Irish and Cherokee ancestry through his father, he spoke Cherokee until he was about 13 years old, but in 1972 he said, "since that time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenne Duncan
Kenne Duncan (February 17, 1903 – February 5, 1972) was a Canadian-born American B-movie character actor. Hyped professionally as "The Meanest Man in the Movies," the vast majority of his over 250 appearances on camera were Westerns, but he also did occasional forays into horror, crime drama, and science fiction. He also appeared in over a dozen serials. Early years Duncan was born Kenneth Duncan MacLachlan in Ontario, Canada. Before he became an actor, Duncan enjoyed riding, and for a time he worked as a jockey. His accomplishments in that field included winning the steeplechase at Blue Bonnets raceway in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Career Duncan is best known, in some circles, for his work with Ed Wood. Duncan appeared in five Wood productions: '' Night of the Ghouls'', '' Trick Shooting with Kenne Duncan'', '' Crossroad Avenger'', '' The Sinister Urge'', and '' The Lawless Rider'', a film Wood did with Yakima Canutt in the Director's chair. Duncan's final appeara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famous Monsters Of Filmland
''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' is an American film genre, genre-specific List of film periodicals, film magazine, started in 1958 by publisher James Warren (publisher), James Warren and editor Forrest J Ackerman. ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' directly inspired the creation of many other similar publications, including ''Castle of Frankenstein'', ''Cinefantastique'', ''Fangoria'', ''The Monster Times'', and ''Video Watchdog''. In addition, hundreds, if not thousands, of ''FM''-influenced horror, fantasy and science fiction film-related Fanzine#Horror film fanzines, fanzines have been produced, some of which have continued to publish for decades, such as ''Midnight Marquee'' and ''Little Shoppe of Horrors''. Publication history 1958–1983 ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' was originally conceived as a one-shot publication by Warren and Ackerman, published in the wake of the widespread success of the ''Shock Theater'' package of old horror movies syndicated to American televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
