Place of Birth:
Pecos, Texas, USA
Date of Birth:
2/19/1944
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.
The Human Torch
The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies
The Teenage Frankenstein
Captain America Battles the Red Skull
Schlock
Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
Fly Trap: Catching a Classic
Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles
The Graduate
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
The Adventures of the Spirit
Bikini Drive-In
Fanarchy
Dinosaur Movies
The Amazing Colossal Woman
King Kong
Spider-Man
Atom Man vs. Martian Invaders
The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry
Von Ryan's Express
Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
Batman and Robin
Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood