
Donald F. Glut
Born: 1944-02-19
Place of birth: Pecos, Texas, USA
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.
Filmography

Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
1996

The Adventures of the Spirit
1963

The Teenage Frankenstein Meets the Teenage Werewolf
1959

Return of the Teenage Werewolf
1959

The Frankenstein Story
1958

Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles
1987

More Dinosaurs
1985

X-Men
1992

Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
2002

The Transformers
1984

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007

The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
1999

The Graduate
1967

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
2002

Hollywood Goes Ape!
1994

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
1981