Donald F. Glut

Overview
Born February 19, 1944, in Pecos, Texas, USA
Mini-Bio
Donald F. Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966. Don has had a long and varied career. He has been a professional musician, actor, film director, executive producer, photographer, magazine editor, proofreader and (very briefly, for an advertising agency) 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, myriad 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. Arguably Don is best known for his novelization of the second “Star Wars” movie The Empire Strikes Back (#1 Best Seller). Don currently executive-produces, writes and directs “traditional-style” horror for his company Pecosborn Productions, and writes scripts for The Creeps horror comics magazine. Also, he is a Southern California representative of the Las Vegas Talent Agency. Note: Any motion picture titles that may be listed prior to Dinosaur Valley Girls (1997) are of amateur movies, the first of 41 of which Don Glut made when he was nine years old.

Trivia
As a teenager in Chicago, Glut began making amateur horror and fantasy films.
Was a longtime comic book writer, doing stories for such characters as Vampirella, Captain America, and Kull.
Was in a mid-Sixties rock band called Penny Arcade, who had a record produced by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees.
Attended film school with George Lucas at the University of Southern California, and later wrote an excellent novelization of Lucas’s production “The Empire Strikes Back,” which is still in print.
Fan of the television show Shock Theatre (1957) and its host Marvin.