Donald F. Glut
Born: 1944-02-19 in Pecos, Texas, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
2026
- Icons Unearthed: Transformers as Self
2022
- Thor: Love and Thunder ... (Thanks)
- Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story as Self - Interviewee
2020
- As I Kiss You ... (Director)
2019
- Fly Trap: Catching a Classic as Self
2018
- Tales of Frankenstein ... (Director)
2016
- Dances with Werewolves ... (Director)
- The Amazing Colossal Woman as Paleontologist
2015
- Fanarchy as Self
2014
- Toy Masters as Self
2010
- The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry as Self
2008
- Blood Scarab ... (Director)
2007
2006
- The Sci-Fi Boys as Self
- The Mummy's Kiss: 2nd Dynasty ... (Director)
- I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies as Self
2004
- Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood as 'A-List' Strip Club Patron (as Don Glut)
2003
- The Mummy's Kiss ... (Writer)
2002
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe ... (Creator)
- Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket' as Self
2001
- The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula ... (Writer)
- The Vampire Hunters Club ... (Director)
1996
- Bureau of Alien Detectors ... (Writer)
- Vampires: Thirst for the Truth as Self
1995
- Bikini Drive-In
- Dinosaur Valley Girls ... (Director)
1994
- Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror ... (Assistant Director)
- Hollywood Goes Ape! ... (Director)
1993
- Dinosaur Movies as Host
1992
- X-Men ... (Writer)
1990
- The New Adventures of He-Man ... (Creator)
1989
- Dink, the Little Dinosaur ... (Writer)
1986
- The Centurions ... (Writer)
1985
- More Dinosaurs ... (Creative Consultant)
1984
- The Transformers ... (Writer)
- Dinosaurs (KABC Special) ... (Creative Consultant)
1983
- The Biskitts ... (Writer)
1981
- Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends ... (Writer)
- Spider-Man ... (Writer)
1976
- King Kong as Guy in Ampitheater
1973
- Schlock as Movie patron
1969
- Spider-Man as Spider-Man
1967
- The Graduate as College Student (uncredited)
- Atom Man vs. Martian Invaders as Atom-Man
1966
- Rocketman Flies Again ... (Director)
1965
- Von Ryan's Express
- Wrath of the Sun Demon ... (Director)
- For What Purpose? ... (Director)
1964
- Spy Smasher vs. The Purple Monster ... (Director)
- Batman and Robin as Batman
- Captain America Battles the Red Skull as Steve Rogers
- Captain America vs. The Mutant ... (Director)
- Son of Tor ... (Director)
1963
- The Adventures of the Spirit as Spirit/Wolf Man/Green Hornet/Rocket Man
- The Human Torch
1962
- Dragstrip Dracula ... (Director)
- Superduperman ... (Director)
- Tor, King of Beasts ... (Director)
- Tyran the Terrible ... (Special Effects)
- It Came from Alpha Centauri ... (Special Effects)
- The Invisible Teenager ... (Director)
1961
- Time Is Just a Place ... (Director)
- Monster Rumble ... (Director)
1960
- The Age of Reptiles ... (Director)
- Revenge of the Teenage Werewolf ... (Director)
1959
- The Teenage Frankenstein Meets the Teenage Werewolf ... (Director)
- The Fire Monsters ... (Director)
- I Was a Teenage Apeman ... (Director)
- Slave of the Vampire ... (Director)
- Dinosaur Destroyer ... (Director)
- The Teenage Frankenstein
- The Day I Vanished ... (Director)
- The Teenage Werewolf ... (Director)
- I Was a Teenage Vampire ... (Director)
- Return of the Teenage Werewolf ... (Director)
- The Time Monsters ... (Director)
1958
- Return of the Monster Maker ... (Director)
- The Revenge of Dracula ... (Director)
- The Frankenstein Story ... (Director)
1957
- Frankenstein Meets Dracula ... (Director)
- Return of the Wolf Man ... (Director)
1956
- The Earth Before Man ... (Director)
1953
- Diplodocus at Large ... (Director)