Years active 1953-2008 Name Donald Glut | Role Writer Movies and TV shows Blood Scarab | |
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Born February 19, 1944 (age 80) ( 1944-02-19 ) Pecos, Texas, U.S. Occupation Film director, screenwriter, actor writer Notable work The Empire Strikes Back novelization
Dagar the Invincible
The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor
Tragg and the Sky Gods Education University of Southern California Casting directed Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood Books Dinosaurs - the encyclopedia, The Empire Strikes Back, I Was a Teenage Movie Ma, The Dinosaur Scrapbook, Chomper Similar People Roy Thomas, Alan Kupperberg, Archie Goodwin, John Buscema, Dan Spiegle | ||
Filmmaker donald f glut on being a kid who loved monster movies and going to usc film school
Donald F. Glut (; born February 19, 1944) is an American writer, motion picture film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the novelization of the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back.
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- Filmmaker donald f glut on being a kid who loved monster movies and going to usc film school
- Tales of Frankenstein 2018 DirectorWriter Donald F Glut 2
- Amateur career
- Professional career
- Writer
- Awards
- References
Tales of Frankenstein (2018) Director/Writer Donald F. Glut 2
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, The Spirit, and 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 full-time.
On October 3, 2006 Epoch Cinema released a two-DVD set of all 41 of Glut's amateur films titled I Was A Teenage Moviemaker. The total running time of both DVDs is 480 minutes, and includes a documentary about the making of those films, with interviews with Forrest J Ackerman, Randal Kleiser, Bob Burns, Jim Harmon, Scott Shaw, Paul Davids, Bill Warren, and others.
Professional career
Over the next decades, Glut pursued a variety of professions in the entertainment field. He worked heavily as a screenwriter, mostly in children's television on shows such as Shazam!, Land of the Lost, Spider-Man, Transformers, Challenge of the GoBots, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, DuckTales, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, X-Men, and many more.
He also claimed to have created some of the characters and much of the back story for the Masters of the Universe toy line, which served as the basis for the TV show.
With the release of 1996's Dinosaur Valley Girls, Glut began a professional directing career that has seen him helm several exploitation-style films, such as The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula (2001), The Mummy's Kiss (2003), Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood (2004), The Mummy's Kiss: 2nd Dynasty (2006), and Blood Scarab (2007).
Writer
In addition to the Empire Strikes Back novelization published in 1980 and still in print, Glut has written approximately 65 published books, both novels and nonfiction, plus numerous children's books based on franchises. Many of his nonfiction books have been about dinosaurs, including Dinosaur Dictionary and the Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia series of reference works.
Glut created and wrote several series for Western Publishing's line of Gold Key Comics including The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor, Dagar the Invincible, and Tragg and the Sky Gods. At Marvel Comics, he wrote Captain America, The Invaders, Kull the Destroyer, Solomon Kane, Star Wars, and What If...?. His work for Warren Publishing included Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella.
Awards
Glut received an Inkpot Award in 1980.