Donald F. Glut

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.

Known For

The Human Torch
The Human Torch
The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies
I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies
The Teenage Frankenstein
The Teenage Frankenstein
Captain America Battles the Red Skull
Captain America Battles the Red Skull
Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles
Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles

Filmography

2022 Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
as Self - Interviewee
2019 Fly Trap: Catching a Classic
as Self
2016 The Amazing Colossal Woman
as Paleontologist
2015 Fanarchy
as Self
2010 The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry
as Self
2007 Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
as Self
2006 I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies
as Self
2006 The Sci-Fi Boys
as Self
2004 Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood
as 'A-List' Strip Club Patron (as Don Glut)
2002 The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
as Self
2002 Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
as Self
1996 Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
as Self
1995 Bikini Drive-In
as
1993 Dinosaur Movies
as Host
1987 Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles
as
1976 King Kong
as Guy in Ampitheater
1973 Schlock
as Movie patron
1969 Spider-Man
as Spider-Man
1967 The Graduate
as College Student (uncredited)
1967 Atom Man vs. Martian Invaders
as Atom-Man