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October 1. 0, 1. 92. Poughkeepsie, New York, U. S. Died. December 1. Los Angeles, California, U. S. Cause of death.
Heart attack. Other names. Daniel Davis, Ann Gora, Edward D. Wood Jr. Occupation. Filmmaker, author, actor.
Years active. 19. Spouse(s)Norma Mc. Carty (m. 1. 95. 5–5. Kathy O'Hara (m. 1. Military career. Allegiance. United States. Service/branch. United States Marine Corps.
Years of service. Rank. Corporal. Battles/wars. World War II: Edward Davis Wood Jr. In the 1. 96. 0s and 1.
In 1. 97. 5, he was awarded a Golden Turkey Award as Worst Director of All Time, renewing public interest in his work. Wood's career and camp approach has earned him and his films a cult following. Following the publication of Rudolph Grey's 1.
Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., the public took a greater interest in Wood, leading up to director Tim Burton's biopic of Wood's life, Ed Wood (1. Johnny Depp as Wood that earned two Academy Awards. Watch Free Paint It Black (2017). Early years. Postal Service as a custodian, and his family relocated numerous times around the United States. Eventually, they settled in Poughkeepsie, New York, where Ed Wood Jr. According to Wood's second wife, Kathy O'Hara, Wood's mother Lillian would dress him in girl's clothing when he was a child because she had always wanted a daughter.
For the rest of his life, Wood crossdressed, infatuated with the feel of angora on his skin. During his childhood, Wood was interested in the performing arts and pulp fiction.
He collected comics and pulp magazines, and adored movies, most notably Westerns, serials and anything involving the occult. Buck Jones and Bela Lugosi were two of his earliest childhood idols. He would often skip school in favor of watching pictures at the local movie theater, where stills from the day's movie would often be thrown in the trash by theater staff, allowing Wood to salvage them to add to his extensive collection. On his 1. 2th birthday, in 1. Wood received as a gift his first movie camera, a Kodak . One of his first pieces of footage, and one that imbued him with pride, showed the airship Hindenburg passing over the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, shortly before its historic crash at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
One of Wood's first paid jobs was as a cinema usher, and he also sang and played drums in a band. He later fronted a singing quartet called . Assigned to the 2nd Defense Battalions, he reached the rank of Corporal before he was discharged. He was involved in the Battle of Tarawa, among others, and during the war, he lost his two front teeth to a Japanese soldier's rifle butt and was shot several times in the leg by a machine gunner. Wood later claimed that he feared being wounded in battle more than he feared being killed. Pda Formats Human Flow (2017) Review Film here. Directing and screenwriting. In 1. 94. 8, Wood wrote, produced, directed, and starred in Casual Company, a play derived from his unpublished novel, which was based on his service in the United States Marine Corps.
It opened at the Village Playhouse to negative reviews on October 2. In 1. 95. 2, Wood was introduced to actor Bela Lugosi by friend and fellow writer- producer Alex Gordon, Wood's roommate at the time, who went on to help create American International Pictures. Lugosi's son, Bela Lugosi Jr., has been among those who felt Wood exploited the senior Lugosi's stardom, taking advantage of the fading actor when he could not refuse any work.
Lugosi had become dependent on morphine as a way of controlling his debilitating sciatica over the years, and was in a horrendous physical state. The film was loosely based on trans woman Christine Jorgensen.
While panned by critics then and now (being considered as one of Wood's worst films), though many praise the camp qualities, the film is notable for its groundbreaking empathetic portrayal of LGBT issues at a time when most media were very hostile. Jail Bait. Bela Lugosi was supposed to play the lead role of the plastic surgeon, but was busy when filming started and had to bow out. Bride of the Monster. The film was premiered (as .
Morgan, starring Playboy model Jean Moorhead. Night of the Ghouls. The film may have been released marginally in March 1.
For many years, it was thought to be a lost film. Filmed in five days, this is the last mainstream film Wood directed, although it has grindhouse elements.
The movie contains an . This includes a fight scene performed by Ed Wood himself (uncredited) and Conrad Brooks. Orgy of the Dead. Wood handled various production details while Stephen C.
Apostolof directed under the pseudonym A. The film begins with a re- creation of the opening scene from the then- unreleased Night of the Ghouls.
Criswell, wearing one of Lugosi's old capes, rises from his coffin to deliver an introduction taken almost word- for- word from the previous film. Set in a misty graveyard, the Lord of the Dead (Criswell) and his sexy consort, the Black Ghoul (a Vampira look- alike), preside over a series of macabre performances by topless dancers from beyond the grave (recruited by Wood from local strip clubs). The film also features a Wolf Man and a Mummy. Together, Wood and Apostolof went on to make a string of sexploitation films up to 1.
Wood co- wrote the screenplays and occasionally acted. Venus Flytrap (1. US/Japan horror film, was based on an unproduced Wood screenplay from the 1. Necromania. Wood produced, wrote, and directed the film under the pseudonym .
The film was an early entry to the new subgenre of hardcore pornographic film. Thought lost for years, it resurfaced in edited form on Mike Vraney's Something Weird imprint in the late 1. DVD by Fleshbot Films in 2. Books and novels. Thirty- two stories known to be by Wood (he sometimes wrote under pseudonyms such as . Novels include Black Lace Drag (1. Killer in Drag), Orgy of the Dead (1.
Devil Girls (1. 96. Death of a Transvestite (1. The Sexecutives (1. The Photographer (1.
Take It Out in Trade (1. The Only House in Town (1. Necromania (1. 97. The Undergraduate (1. A Study of Fetishes and Fantasies (1. Fugitive Girls (1.
In Nightmare of Ecstasy, Maila Nurmi said she declined Wood's offer to do a nude scene sitting in a coffin for the film version of his Necromania, claiming she was recovering from a major stroke at the time. In 1. 96. 5, Wood wrote the quasi- memoir. Hollywood Rat Race, which was eventually published in 1. In it, Wood advises new writers to . Even if your story gets worse, you'll get better. The two lived together for a time and Wood cast Fuller in three of his films: Glen or Glenda, Jail Bait and Bride of the Monster.
Fuller later said she initially had no idea that Wood was a crossdresser and was mortified when she saw Wood dressed as a woman in Glen or Glenda. The couple broke up in 1.
Wood cast another actress in the lead role of Bride of the Monster (Wood originally wrote the part for Fuller and reduced her part to a 1- minute cameo) and because of Wood's excessive drinking. Mc. Carty appeared as Edie, the airplane stewardess in Plan 9 from Outer Space.
The marriage was annulled in 1. They remained married until Wood's death in 1. Wood Jr., Wood's wife Kathy recalls that Wood told her that his mother dressed him in girls' clothing as a child. Kathy stated that Wood's transvestism was not a sexual inclination, but rather a neomaternal comfort derived mainly from angora fabric (angora is featured in many of Wood's films, and . Even in his later years, Wood was not shy about going out in public dressed in drag as Shirley, his female alter ego (who also appeared in many of his screenplays and stories). Later career. Love Feast or Pretty Models All in a Row), the first of two films produced by a Marine buddy, Joseph F. Robertson, portraying a photographer using his position to engage in sexual antics with models.
He had a smaller role in Robertson's second film, Mrs. Stone's Thing, as a transvestite who spends his time at a party trying on lingerie in a bedroom.