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unusual facts about Ed Wood, Jr



Andy Christell

Christell has been described as being a "polite quiet guy." His greatest passion other than bass is collecting Ed Wood and Vincent Price DVDs.

Angora wool

Ed Wood, a filmmaker known for his love of Angora wool, to the extent of wearing it and featuring it prominently in his own films.

Aurora Browne

Aurora co-produced and acted the role of Vampira in the Toronto Fringe Festival production of Ed Wood's classic Plan 9 From Outer Space named Plan Live! From Outer Space.

Batbaby

A music video was filmed in Winter Park and Orlando, Florida on October 10, 2011 (Ed Wood's birthday).

Big Eyes

The script was written by the screenwriters behind Ed Wood, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.

Demofilo Fidani

This derivativeness, combined with bizarre characters and complete inattention to continuity, has made many refer to him as the "Ed Wood of spaghetti westerns".

Duke Moore

Duke Moore, (July 15, 1913 as James Moore – November 16, 1976), was an American actor who has the distinction of spending his entire on-screen career in productions by Ed Wood.

Germán Magariños

All of his movies are extremely low-budget violent productions considered gore horror comedies or splatterpunk, being Ed Wood, Jr and Lloyd Kaufman his main influences.

Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny

As Plan 9 is named after the Ed Wood film Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glenda is presumably named after Wood's film Glen or Glenda.

Gregory Walcott

He also agreeably made a cameo appearance in the 1994 Ed Wood bio-pic starring Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton.

He is perhaps best known for having appeared in the 1959 Ed Wood film, the cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Harvey B. Dunn

Dunn was best known for his appearances in several 1950s B movies including three Ed Wood films, Bride of the Monster (1955), Night of the Ghouls (1959), and The Sinister Urge (1961).

If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?

The movie is perhaps best known for having been sampled by the sound collage band Negativland and by featuring a musical number which was used in Ed Wood's 1954 film Jail Bait.

Jean Moorhead

A former Miss Hollywood, Moorhead acted in movies such as the Ed Wood-scripted The Violent Years (1956), as well a guest spot on the TV Western Death Valley Days (1 episode, 1957).

Josh Alan Friedman

He has released four albums: Famous & Poor, The Worst! (a musical based on the life and career of "Worst Director of All Time" Ed Wood), Blacks 'n' Jews (the title of which became a documentary on Josh’s life) and Josh Alan Band.

La Crescenta-Montrose, California

Bela Lugosi attempted to overcome his morphine addiction at the Kimball, as represented in the Tim Burton film "Ed Wood." Actress Frances Farmer, misdiagnosed as a "paranoid schizophrenic," received insulin shock therapy at Kimball.

Michael Findlay

The Findlays were friends with George Weiss, producer of Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda and a series of fetishistic Olga films (Olga's House of Shame, Olga's Girls, et al.).

Rudolph Grey

, Feral House, ISBN 978-0-922915-04-0; reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8 — Biography of Ed Wood

Grey is also a motion picture historian and has written Nightmare of Ecstasy (1992), a biography of Ed Wood, the director of notoriously awful films.

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski

Ed Wood led to a succession of offbeat biopics, including The People vs. Larry Flynt; Man on the Moon, about the short life of comedian Andy Kaufman; and Autofocus, chronicling the downfall and subsequent murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, which they produced.


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