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Ed Wood
Edward Davis Wood Jr. was an American filmmaker, actor and novelist. In the 1950s, Wood directed several low-budget science fiction, crime and horror films that later became cult classics, notably Glen or Glenda (1953), Jail Bait (1954), Bride of the Monster (1955), Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) and Night of the Ghouls (1959). In the 1960s and 1970s, he moved towards sexploitation and pornographi…
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entertainment · American filmmaker, actor and author (1924–1978) · screenwriter · film producer · film actor · film director · film editor · writer · stage actor · novelist · director · also Ed Wood, Edward Wood, Edward Davis Wood Jr., Edward Davis "Ed" Wood Jr., Akdov Telmig, John Quinn
Born 10 October 1924 · Died 10 December 1978 · Q221843
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s excessive drinking. Fuller relocated to New York City where she embarked on a successful songwriting career, writing for famous singers like Elvis Presley and Nat King Cole. Fuller died on May 9, 2011, at age 88. In 1956, soon after his breakup with Fuller, Wood married actress Norma McCarty. McCarty appeared as Edie, the airplane stewardess, in Plan 9 from Outer Space, and was recently divorced with two sons, Mike and John McCarty, from her earlier marriage. The marriage took Wood
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s friend, cameraman William C. Thompson, died around this time. Orgy of the Dead Wood
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2026· 2 entries
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2012· 1 entry
Released ep “The Violent Years”.
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2011· 1 entry
“s excessive drinking. Fuller relocated to New York City where she embarked on a successful songwriting career, writing for famous singers like Elvis Presley and Nat King Cole. Fuller died on May 9, 2011, at age 88. In 1956, soon after his breakup with Fuller, Wood married actress Norma McCarty. McCarty appeared as Edie, the airplane stewardess, in Plan 9 from Outer Space, and was recently divorced with two sons, Mike and John McCarty, from her earlier marriage. The marriage took Wood”
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2000· 1 entry
Image Entertainment included the documentary on the DVD reissue of Plan 9 from Outer Space (in a two-disc set with Robot Monster)
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1997· 1 entry
The University of Southern California began holding an annual Ed Wood Film Festival, in which student teams are challenged to write, film, and edit an Ed Wood-inspired short film based on a preassigned theme
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1996· 1 entry
Reverend Steve Galindo of Seminole, Oklahoma, created a legally recognized religion with Wood as its official savior
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1994· 2 entries
Just ten days before what would have been Wood's 70th birthday
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Director Tim Burton released the biopic Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp in the title role and Martin Landau, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi
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1986· 1 entry
In an essay paying homage to Wood in Incredibly Strange Films, Jim Morton wrote: "Eccentric and individualistic, Edward D
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1980· 2 entries
Renewing public interest in his life and work
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When Michael Medved declared this film "the worst film ever made" in his book The Golden Turkey Awards
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1978· 2 entries
Died 1978-12-10.
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In total poverty by two sheriff's deputies called by their landlord for failure to pay their overdue rent
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1974· 1 entry
Wood was allegedly on the set of an ultra-low budget film called Meatcleaver Massacre (1977) and is said to have co-directed at least one scene in the film (uncredited), but his involvement is dubious
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1971· 1 entry
Wood produced, wrote and directed Necromania (subtitled A Tale of Weird Love) under the pseudonym "Don Miller"
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1970· 2 entries
Wood produced a 45 rpm record which featured Tor Johnson on one side reading The Day The Mummy Returned, and Criswell reading The Final Curtain on the other
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Wood wrote and directed his own pornographic film, Take It Out in Trade, starring Duke Moore and Nona Carver
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1969· 2 entries
Wood adapted his own novel Mama's Diary written under the pseudonym Dick Trent into Operation Red Light for Jacques Descent Production
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Wood appeared in The Photographer (a
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1966· 1 entry
Stephen Apostoloff was set to produce and direct a film called 69 Rue Pigalle, based on Ed Wood's novel Parisian Passions, but the financing never materialized
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1965· 3 entries
As Killer in Drag), Orgy of the Dead (1965), Parisian Passions (1966), Watts the Difference (1966), Side-Show Siren (1966), Drag Trade (1967), Watts After (1967), Devil Girls (1967), It Takes One to Know One (1967), Deat
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“s friend, cameraman William C. Thompson, died around this time. Orgy of the Dead Wood”
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Wood wrote the quasi-memoir Hollywood Rat Race, which was only published years later in 1998
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1963· 3 entries
Up until his death, Wood wrote at least 80 lurid crime and sex novels in addition to hundreds of short stories and non-fiction pieces for magazines and daily newspapers
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When she sent his mother a photo and introduced herself to Lillian as her granddaughter
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Wood wrote the screenplay for Shotgun Wedding (an exploitation film directed by Boris Petroff about hillbillies marrying child brides in the Ozarks)
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1961· 1 entry
Thereby finding its audience over the years
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1960· 1 entry
Wood wrote the screenplay for The Peeper, which he intended as a direct sequel to his 1960 film The Sinister Urge, but it was never produced
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1959· 1 entry
And then promptly vanished from circulation
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1958· 3 entries
Wood also wrote the screenplay for The Bride and the Beast (1958), which was directed by Adrian Weiss
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Wood wrote, produced, and directed Night of the Ghouls (originally titled Revenge of the Dead), starring Kenne Duncan, Tor Johnson (reprising his role as "Lobo" from Bride of the Monster), Criswell, Duke Moore, and Valda
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“s screenplay was based on Weiss”
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1957· 2 entries
At the Carlton Theatre in Hollywood, and later went into general release in July 1958 (retitled Plan Nine from Outer Space) in Texas and a number of other Southern states
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Wood wrote and directed a pilot for a suspense-horror TV series called Portraits in Terror that ultimately failed to sell
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1956· 5 entries
For Wood's unfinished juvenile delinquency film, Rock and Roll Hell (a
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Soon after his breakup with Fuller, Wood married actress Norma McCarty
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Wood wrote the screenplay (uncredited) for the film The Violent Years (originally titled Teenage Girl Gang), which was directed by William M
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Wood met Kathy O'Hara in a bar one night where he was drinking with Bela Lugosi
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But producer George Weiss pulled the plug on the project after only ten minutes of footage had been completed
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1955· 3 entries
At the Paramount theater in Hollywood while Lugosi was institutionalized, but a special screening was arranged for him upon his release, pleasing him greatly
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After Wood cast another actress for the lead role in Bride of the Monster (Wood originally wrote the part for Fuller but later reduced her part to a brief cameo appearance) and because of Wood's excessive drinking
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Where he was being treated for drug addiction
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1954· 1 entry
And had tried at that time to interest producer Ron Ormond in the project, unsuccessfully
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1953· 3 entries
Wood wrote and directed a stage show for Lugosi called The Bela Lugosi Review (a take-off on Dracula) that was put on at the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas
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Ed Wood's friend producer Alex Gordon proposed creating an extended version of the 1951 film to be called King Robot which would incorporate newly filmed footage of Lugosi
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Wood wrote and directed the semi-documentary film Glen or Glenda (originally titled I Changed My Sex
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1952· 1 entry
Wood was introduced to actor Bela Lugosi by friend and fellow writer-producer Alex Gordon (Wood's roommate at the time who was later involved in creating American International Pictures)
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1951· 2 entries
Provided he travel back to England to appear in it
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And worked very briefly as a stuntman among other things
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1949· 1 entry
Wood and Thomas acted together in a play called The Blackguard Returns at the Gateway Theatre (Wood played the Sheriff and Thomas was the villain)
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1948· 1 entry
Wood wrote, produced, directed, and starred in The Casual Company, a play derived from his own unpublished novel which was based on his service in the United States Marine Corps
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1947· 1 entry
Wood moved to Hollywood, California, where he wrote scripts and directed television pilots, commercials and several forgotten micro-budget westerns, most of which failed to sell
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1946· 3 entries
Had been living in Lancaster, California, and had managed to trace her father's whereabouts
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“with 10 or 20 other Marines at the base”
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Used to sleep around regularly "with 10 or 20 other Marines at the base", so he probably wasn't the girl's father
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1942· 1 entry
Wood enlisted at age 17 in the United States Marine Corps, just months after the attack on Pearl Harbor
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for his tireless effort in support of the League of Nations, disarmament and peace.
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1936· 1 entry
Wood received as a gift his first movie camera, a Kodak "Cine Special"
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-10-10.
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