Dan O'Bannon

Dan O'Bannon

Birthday: 1946-09-30

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Biography: Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American screenwriter and director of science fiction and horror films. He is best known for his work on "Alien" (1979), "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985) and "Total Recall" (1990).

Movies

Dan O'Bannon: Crafting Fear
Dan O'Bannon: Crafting Fear

Documentary about Dead & Buried....

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Dark Star
Dark Star

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mis...

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More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead

Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic "The Return of the Living Dead...

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In Search of Moebius
In Search of Moebius

Documentary about Frenchman Jean Giraud, one of the most influential comic strip illustrators and au...

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Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures
Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures

French artist and author Jean Giraud is one of the most famous and influential comic strip illustrat...

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Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'

Making of 'Blue Thunder'...

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Area 51: The Alien Interview
Area 51: The Alien Interview

A documentary about aliens and UFOs with re-enactments of alien interviews and video of a supposedly...

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The Alien Saga
The Alien Saga

In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weave...

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Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors

Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention....

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Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

This documentary about "2001: A Space Odyssey" looks at some of the things that seemed fanciful in 1...

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Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star
Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star

Exploring the controversial story behind John Carpenter (Halloween & The Thing) and writer Dan O Ban...

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The Beast Within: Making Alien
The Beast Within: Making Alien

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew tra...

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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1

Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 i...

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The Alien Legacy
The Alien Legacy

A behind the scenes look at the making of 'Alien'...

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Return of the Living Dead: Designing the Dead
Return of the Living Dead: Designing the Dead

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Good Morning, Dan
Good Morning, Dan

Set in the future of 2006, an old man forced into a daily routine by an automated system reminisces ...

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Judson's Release
Judson's Release

Dan O’Bannon stars in one of the first iterations of the classic "the babysitter and the man upstair...

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Jodorowsky's Dune
Jodorowsky's Dune

In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting F...

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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VH...

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The AckerMonster Chronicles!
The AckerMonster Chronicles!

Nudism. Esperanto. KING KONG. Sci-Fi. What do all of these things have in common? Simple: Forrest J...

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