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Ed Wood
Sign in to saveAlso known as Edward Wood, Edward Davis Wood Jr., Edward Davis "Ed" Wood Jr., Akdov Telmig, John Quinn
American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and film editor
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1924
- Died
- 1978
- Works
- 34
Top works
- Drag trade
- Killer in drag
- Nightmare of Ecstasy- The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr
- When the Topic Is Sex
- Black Lace Drag
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Film & TV
Writing · Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Edward Davis Wood, Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978), better known as Ed Wood, was an American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and editor, who often performed many of these functions simultaneously. In the 1950s, Wood made a number of cheap genre films, now enjoyed for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, large amounts of ill-fitting stock footage,…
Known for
- Dad Made Dirty Movies — Self (archive footage)2011
- Hollywood Rated 'R' — Self (archive footage)1997
- Crossroads of Laredo — Cowboy1996
- The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. — Himself (archive footage)1996
- God Save the Queens1995
- Hellborn — Himself (Archive Footage)1993
- Homo Promo — (Archival)1993
- On the Trail of Ed Wood — Self (archive footage)1990
- Five Loose Women — Robbery Witness #2 / Sheriff / Pop (as Edw. D. Wood Jr.)1974
- The Cocktail Hostesses — Extra1973
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,940
- Total plays
- 24,965
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Ed Wood is a noise-rock duo from Bydgoszcz formed in half of the first decade of the XXI century by Sam Waterston and Oleum et operam perdidi knows from the bands like Gumka Olik and XiuperSiu. Their music is based on difficult guitar parts and even more difficult drum parts. Vocal parts are so difficult that writing about them is like an architecture of dance, anatomy of shark or areopagitica of St.Paul. In the music of duo you can hear a lot of <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ed+Wood">Read
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Satisfaction With Life Scale
· 1985 · cited 23,426x
- Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems
· 2009 · cited 10,178x
- Corporate Social Performance Revisited
· 1991 · cited 9,970x
- Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
· 2019 · cited 9,164x
- Subjective well-being.
· 1984 · cited 8,714x
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Quotes
- “Martin Landau - Bela Lugosi”
- “Sarah Jessica Parker - Dolores Fuller”
- “Bill Murray - Bunny Breckinridge”
- “Lisa Marie - Maila Nurmi (stage name Vampira)”
- “Patricia Arquette - Kathy O'Hara”
- “Juliet Landau - Loretta King”
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Key facts
- Born
- Edward Davis Wood Jr. , ( 1924-10-10 ) October 10, 1924, Poughkeepsie, New York , U.S.
- Died
- December 10, 1978 (1978-12-10) (aged 54), Los Angeles, California , U.S.
- Other names
- Daniel Davis, Ann Gora, Edward D. Wood Jr., Akdov Telmig, Larry Lee, Don Miller
- Occupations
- Filmmaker author actor
- Years active
- 1947–1978
- Spouses
- Norma McCarty ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1956 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 1956 ) Kathy O'Hara ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1956 )
- Children
- 1 (debatable)
- Branch
- United States Marine Corps
- Service years
- 1942–1944
- Conflicts
- World War II Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign
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Encyclopedic overview
Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor and novelist. In the 1950s, Wood directed several low-budget science fiction, crime and horror films that later became cult classics, notably Glen or Glenda (1953), Jail Bait (1954), Bride of the Monster (1955), Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) and Night of the Ghouls (1959). In the 1960s and 1970s, he moved towards sexploitation and pornographic films such as The Sinister Urge (1960), Orgy of the Dead (1965) and Necromania (1971), and wrote over 80 lurid pulp crime and sex novels.
Notable for their campy aesthetics, technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, use of poorly-matched stock footage, eccentric casts, idiosyncratic stories and non sequitur dialogue, Wood's films remained largely obscure until he was posthumously awarded a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Director of All Time in 1980, renewing public interest in his life and work.
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