
Donald F. Glut
Director
Born: February 19, 1944 (82 years old)
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.
Filmography (27)
- The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (1999, ★ 7.7)
- The Graduate (1967, ★ 7.6)
- Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007, ★ 7.8)
- Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994, ★ 7.2)
- X-Men (1992, ★ 8.2)
- Von Ryan's Express (1965, ★ 7.1)
- The Sci-Fi Boys (2006, ★ 7)
- Tales of Frankenstein (2018, ★ 7.4)
- Spider-Man (1981, ★ 7.4)
- The Transformers (1984, ★ 7.8)
- The Centurions (1986, ★ 7.3)
- Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981, ★ 7.5)
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002, ★ 7.5)
- Schlock (1973, ★ 5.6)
- King Kong (1976, ★ 6.3)
- The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry (2010, ★ 6)
- Thor: Love and Thunder (2022, ★ 6.4)
- The New Adventures of He-Man (1990, ★ 6.2)
- Bikini Drive-In (1995, ★ 4.9)
- Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood (2004, ★ 4.9)
- The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula (2001, ★ 5.6)
- Dinosaur Valley Girls (1995, ★ 3.8)
- Blood Scarab (2008, ★ 4.4)
- Dances with Werewolves (2016, ★ 5.2)
- The Mummy's Kiss: 2nd Dynasty (2006, ★ 4)
- The Mummy's Kiss (2003, ★ 3.7)
- Dink, the Little Dinosaur (1989, ★ 4.3)