Donald F. Glut

Donald F. Glut

Birthday: 1944-02-19

Place of Birth: 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.

Movies

The Human Torch
The Human Torch

A battle royal takes place between a super villain the Raven (played by Rich Hagopian) and super her...

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The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon....

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

From 1953 to 1969, Don Glut made amateur movies. Shot on 16mm, these films became "legendary" throug...

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The Teenage Frankenstein
The Teenage Frankenstein

Doctor Frankenstein (played by Charles Martinka) is rescued from being hung by a desperate stranger....

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Captain America Battles the Red Skull
Captain America Battles the Red Skull

The Red Skull (played by Larry Ivie), is about to destroy an American city with only Steve Rogers as...

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Schlock
Schlock

A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a ca...

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Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
Vampires: Thirst for the Truth

A documentary that explores man's enduring fascination with the vampire legend by examining historic...

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Fly Trap: Catching a Classic
Fly Trap: Catching a Classic

Filmmakers and film historians discuss the original Fly trilogy....

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Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles
Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles

Documentary showing how dinosaurs have been used in films. Trailers and scenes from moving about or ...

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The Graduate
The Graduate

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter....

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Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who becam...

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Boris Karloff:  The Rest of the Story
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, fr...

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The Adventures of the Spirit
The Adventures of the Spirit

The Spirit is joined by a host of other heroes in battling the Phantom and his army of monsters...

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Bikini Drive-In
Bikini Drive-In

Kim Taylor inherits her grandfather's drive-in theatre. She must raise $25,000 over one weekend or t...

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Fanarchy
Fanarchy

Fanarchy explores the rise of fan culture and ways in which fans are threatening the Hollywood syste...

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Dinosaur Movies
Dinosaur Movies

Dinosaurs Vs. Apes: DINOSAUR MOVIES and HOLLYWOOD GOES APE! have been hailed as the definitive docum...

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The Amazing Colossal Woman
The Amazing Colossal Woman

Dr. Carol Heisler is angry... very angry. Her rage registers with a flying saucer scanning the popul...

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King Kong
King Kong

An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to explo...

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Spider-Man
Spider-Man

Spider-man must rescue the beautiful daughter of the evil Dr. Lightning....

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Atom Man vs. Martian Invaders
Atom Man vs. Martian Invaders

Martians land on Earth, prepared for conquest. Atom-Man is Earth's only defense....

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The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry
The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry

King of Horror, legendary actor, scriptwriter and director, Paul Naschy is regarded as the Spanish L...

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Von Ryan's Express
Von Ryan's Express

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by...

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

A look back at the classic 1964 film of horror and suspense starring Joan Crawford as an axe-murdere...

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Batman and Robin
Batman and Robin

Vickie Vale, who has the combination of the Gotham City National Bank has been kidnapped by The Mask...

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Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood
Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood

Southern California 1897: While Dumas is in the parlor cleaning his gun, his sister Roxanne is in th...

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The Sci-Fi Boys
The Sci-Fi Boys

Legendary all-stars of cinema bring to life the evolution of science-fiction and special effects fil...

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