Donald F. Glut
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 Graduate (1967)
- King Kong (1976)
- Von Ryan's Express (1965)
- Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood (2004)
- The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry (2010)
- Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007)
- Bikini Drive-In (1995)
- The Mummy's Kiss (2003)
- Icons Unearthed: Transformers (2026)
- Schlock (1973)
- The Sci-Fi Boys (2006)
- The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (1999)
- Fanarchy (2015)
- Vampires: Thirst for the Truth (1996)
- I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies (2006)
- 13 Ghosts: The Magic of Illusion-O
- Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket' (2002)
- Taking the Punishment Poll (2002)
- Psychette: William Castle and "Homicidal" (2002)
- Captain America Battles the Red Skull (1964)