Donald F. Glut

Directing

Born: 1944-02-19 in Pecos, Texas, USA

Biography

Donald F. Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966, and has had a long and varied career. He has been a professional musician, actor, film director, executive producer, photographer, magazine editor, proofreader and copywriter, but is mostly known for his long career as a freelance writer. He has written and directed feature-length motion pictures, documentaries and music videos, authored approximately 80 fiction and non-fiction published books, TV scripts (live action and animation shows, network and syndicated), comic-book scripts, short stories, magazine articles, even music and theatre. He has been involved with numerous popular franchises such as Star Wars, The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and many others, and created original comic-book characters for Gold Key, Marvel and DC. He is arguably best known for his novelization of the second "Star Wars" movie, The Empire Strikes Back.

Donald F. Glut

Biography

Known For

The Graduate

King Kong

Von Ryan's Express

Icons Unearthed: Transformers

Bikini Drive-In

Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood

Spider-Man

The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry

Fanarchy

The Sci-Fi Boys

Schlock

Batman and Robin

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

The Amazing Colossal Woman

Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles

I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

Psychette: William Castle and "Homicidal"

The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster

13 Ghosts: The Magic of Illusion-O

T-Rex: A Dinosaur in Hollywood

Captain America Battles the Red Skull

The Human Torch

Taking the Punishment Poll

The Adventures of the Spirit

Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'

Vampires: Thirst for the Truth

Toy Masters

Dinosaur Movies

Fly Trap: Catching a Classic

The Teenage Frankenstein

Atom Man vs. Martian Invaders