Ib Melchior

Ib Melchior

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ib Jørgen Melchior (born September 17, 1917) is a novelist, short story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter of low-budget American science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Melchior's novels include Code Name: Grand Guignol, Eva, The Haigerloch Project, The Marcus Device, Order of Battle: Hitler's Werewolves, Sleeper Agent, The Tombstone Cipher and The Watchdogs of Abaddon. His non-fiction includes the books Quest: Searching for Germany's Nazi Past (with co-author Frank Brandenburg) and Lauritz Melchior: The Golden Years of Bayreuth, the latter a biography of his father, the opera singer and movie star Lauritz Melchior. With his wife, L.A. architect Cleo Baldon, Ib Melchior wrote the non-fiction books Reflections on the Pool: California Designs for Swimming and Steps & Stairways. Melchior also wrote Hour of Vengeance, a play based on the Viking story of Amled that also inspired William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. In 1982, it was awarded the Hamlet Award for best playwriting by the Shakespeare Society of America. As a filmmaker, Melchior wrote and directed The Angry Red Planet (1959) and The Time Travelers (1964). His most high profile credit was as co-screenwriter (along with John C. Higgins) of Byron Haskin's critically acclaimed Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). He cowrote the screenplays for two U.S.-Danish coproductions, Reptilicus (1961) and Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962), and provided the English language script for Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965). For television, he wrote "The Premonition" episode for the second season of the original The Outer Limits series. The episode was broadcast in 1965. Melchior's short story The Racer was adapted as Paul Bartel's cult film favorite, Death Race 2000 (1975), starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone and produced by Roger Corman. It was later remade as Death Race (2008), starring Jason Statham and Joan Allen, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and produced by Tom Cruise. He claims to be the creator of the original idea upon which Irwin Allen based his television series Lost in Space, although he never received onscreen credit for this. In 1960, Melchior had created an outline for a series he called "Space Family Robinson", which later became a Gold Key comic book. Ed Shifres' book Lost in Space: The True Story is a detailed documentation of how Irwin Allen allegedly plagiarized Melchior's script, with the two outlines presented side by side. Decades later, Prelude Pictures hired Melchior as a consultant on its Lost in Space feature film adaptation, but later sold his contract to New Line Cinema, its production partner on the film. New Line agreed to pay Melchior a $75,000 production bonus and $15,000, but refused him his contractually promised two percent of the producer's gross receipts from the film. Melchior, who is a decorated war hero of World War II, has also been involved in a long legal battle involving his father's estate, Chossewitz in Brandenburg, Germany, which was confiscated by the communist government of East Germany and never returned. In 1965, he was dubbed Knight Commander of the Militant Order of Saint Brigitte of Sweden. In 1976, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films awarded Ib Melchior its Golden Scroll Award to Merit for Outstanding Achievement. Biographies include Ib Melchior: Man of Imagination by Robert Skotak, as well as Melchior's own autobiography Case by Case: A U.S. Army Counterintelligence Agent in World War II. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ib Melchior, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • Popularity: 1.089
  • Tê zanîn: Writing
  • Rojbûn: 1917-09-17
  • Min jî birîya te Kirîye: Copenhagen, Denmark
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  • 1991
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    My Lovely Monster

    My Lovely Monster

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  • 2021
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    Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

    Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

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  • 2000
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    Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre

    Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre

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  • 1961
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    Reptilicus

    Reptilicus

    3.6 1961 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Angry Red Planet

    The Angry Red Planet

    5.6 1959 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Angry Red Planet

    The Angry Red Planet

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  • 1964
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    Robinson Crusoe on Mars

    Robinson Crusoe on Mars

    6.279 1964 HD

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  • 1975
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    Death Race 2000

    Death Race 2000

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  • 1962
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    Journey to the Seventh Planet

    Journey to the Seventh Planet

    4.8 1962 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Time Travelers

    The Time Travelers

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  • 1964
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    The Time Travelers

    The Time Travelers

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  • 1964
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    The Time Travelers

    The Time Travelers

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  • 1970
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    Keep Off the Grass

    Keep Off the Grass

    5.1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Keep Off the Grass

    Keep Off the Grass

    5.1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Keep Off the Grass

    Keep Off the Grass

    5.1 1970 HD

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  • 1958
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    Live Fast, Die Young

    Live Fast, Die Young

    5.7 1958 HD

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  • 1966
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    Ambush Bay

    Ambush Bay

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  • 1959
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    Gigantis, the Fire Monster

    Gigantis, the Fire Monster

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  • 1958
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    Live Fast, Die Young

    Live Fast, Die Young

    5.7 1958 HD

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  • 1958
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    When Hell Broke Loose

    When Hell Broke Loose

    5.8 1958 HD

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  • 1965
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    Terrore nello spazio

    Terrore nello spazio

    6.5 1965 HD

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  • 1970
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