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Born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, Richard Burton Matheson first became a published author while still a child, when his stories and poems ran in the "Brooklyn Eagle". A lifelong reader of fantasy tales, he made his professional writing bow in 1950 when his short story "Born of Man and Woman"... See full bio »

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2011 Real Steel (short story "Steel")
 
2011 Person to Person (short) (short story)
 
2010 Family Guy (TV series)
– The Splendid Source (2010) (short story)
 
2010 The Last Rites of Richard Keene (short) (short story)
 
2009/I The Box (short story "Button, Button")
 
2007 L'esame (short) (novel)
 
2007 I Am Legend (novel "I Am Legend")
 
2007 I Am Omega (video) (novel "I Am Legend")
 
2006 My Ambition (short) (short story "Blood Son")
 
2006/I The Box (short) (story)
 
2006 Blood Son (short) (short story)
 
2005 Masters of Horror (TV series)
– Dance of the Dead (2005) (short story)
 
1999 Stir of Echoes (novel "A Stir of Echoes")
 
1998 What Dreams May Come (novel "What Dreams May Come")
 
1996 Trilogy of Terror II (TV movie) (screenplay / story "Prey")
 
1996 The Outer Limits (TV series)
– First Anniversary (1996) (short story / as Richard Matheson Sr.)
 
1994 Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1990 The Dreamer of Oz (TV movie) (story / teleplay)
 
1990 Loose Cannons (written by)
 
1986-1987 Amazing Stories (TV series)
– Miss Stardust (1987) (short story)
– One for the Books (1986) (short story / teleplay)
– The Doll (1986) (written by)
 
1986 The Twilight Zone (TV series)
– Profile in Silver/Button, Button (1986) (story / segment "Button, Button" / teleplay / segment "Button, Button" / as Logan Swanson)
 
1983 Jaws 3-D (screenplay)
 
1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie (screenplay "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" / segment 4 / segment 2 / segment 3 / short story "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" / segment 4)
 
1983 Prey (video short) (short story)
 
1981 The Incredible Shrinking Woman (novel)
 
1980 Somewhere in Time (novel "Bid Time Return" / screenplay)
 
1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV mini-series)
– The Martians (1980) (writer)
– The Settlers (1980) (writer)
– The Expeditions (1980) (writer)
 
1979 Racconti di fantascienza (TV series)
– L'esame (1979) (story)
 
1977 Dead of Night (TV movie) (story / segment "No Such Thing as a Vampire" / written by / segment "Bobby" / written by / segment "No Such Thing as a Vampire" / written by / segment "Second Chance")
 
1977 The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver (TV movie)
 
1975 Trilogy of Terror (TV movie) (short story / segment "Amelia" / story / segment "Julie" / story / segment "Millicent and Therese" / written by / segment "Amelia")
 
1974 The Stranger Within (TV movie) (short story / teleplay)
 
1974 Les seins de glace (novel "Someone is Bleeding")
 
1974 The Morning After (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1974 Bram Stoker's Dracula (TV movie) (written by)
 
1974 Scream of the Wolf (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1973 Dying Room Only (TV movie) (short story / teleplay)
 
1973 The Legend of Hell House (novel "Hell House" / screenplay)
 
1972-1973 Circle of Fear (TV series)
– The Phantom of Herald Square (1973) (developer)
– The Ghost of Potter's Field (1973) (developer)
– Graveyard Shift (1973) (developer)
– Legion of Demons (1973) (developer)
– Doorway to Death (1973) (developer)
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1973 The Night Strangler (TV movie) (written by)
 
1972 The Night Stalker (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1971-1972 Rod Serling's Night Gallery (TV series)
– Green Fingers/The Funeral/The Tune in Dan's Cafe (1972) (short story / segment "The Funeral" / teleplay / segment "The Funeral")
– The Diary/A Matter of Semantics/Big Surprise/Professor Peabody's Last Lecture (1971) (short story / segment "Big Surprise" / teleplay / segment "Big Surprise")
 
1971 Duel (TV movie) (screenplay / story)
 
1971 The Omega Man (novel "I Am Legend")
 
1970 Cold Sweat (novel "Ride the Nightmare")
 
1969 De Sade (writer)
 
1969 'It's Alive!' (TV movie) (story "Being" - uncredited)
 
1968 Journey to the Unknown (TV series)
– Girl of My Dreams (1968) (story)
 
1968 The Devil Rides Out (writer)
 
1968 Late Night Horror (TV series)
– No Such Thing as a Vampire (1968) (short story)
 
1967 The Young Warriors (novel "The Beardless Warriors" / screenplay)
 
1967 Soy leyenda (short) (novel "I am legend")
 
1966 The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (TV series)
– The Atlantis Affair (1966) (writer)
 
1966 Star Trek (TV series)
– The Enemy Within (1966) (written by)
 
1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV series)
– Time of Flight (1966) (writer)
 
1965 Die! Die! My Darling! (screenplay)
 
1964 The Last Man on Earth (novel "I Am Legend" / screenplay / as Logan Swanson)
 
1959-1964 Twilight Zone (TV series)
– Spur of the Moment (1964) (writer)
– Night Call (1964) (writer)
– Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963) (written by)
– Steel (1963) (written by)
– Death Ship (1963) (writer)
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1963 The Comedy of Terrors (novel - uncredited / screenplay)
 
1963 The Raven (writer)
 
1962-1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series)
– The Thirty-First of February (1963) (teleplay / as Logan Swanson)
– Ride the Nightmare (1962) (novel and teleplay)
 
1962 Combat! (TV series)
– Forgotten Front (1962) (teleplay / as Logan Swanson)
 
1962 Tales of Terror (screenplay)
 
1960-1962 Lawman (TV series)
– The Actor (1962) (writer)
– Homecoming (1961) (writer)
– Cornered (1960) (writer)
– Samson the Great (1960) (writer)
– Yawkey (1960) (writer)
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1962 Burn, Witch, Burn (screenplay)
 
1961 Thriller (TV series)
– The Return of Andrew Bentley (1961) (adaptation)
 
1961 Pit and the Pendulum (screenplay)
 
1961 Master of the World (screenplay)
 
1960 The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (additional scenes - uncredited)
 
1960 House of Usher (screenplay)
 
1960 Cheyenne (TV series)
– Home Is the Brave (1960) (teleplay)
 
1960 Bourbon Street Beat (TV series)
– Target of Hate (1960) (story / teleplay)
 
1960 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV series)
– The Lady on the Wall (1960) (written by)
 
1959 Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV series)
– The Healing Woman (1959) (story)
 
1959 The Beat Generation (writer)
 
1959 Buckskin (TV series)
– Act of Faith (1959) (writer)
 
1958 Now Is Tomorrow (TV movie) (written by)
 
1957 The Incredible Shrinking Man (novel "The Shrinking Man" / screenplay)
 
1955 Studio 57 (TV series)
– Young Couples Only (1955) (story)
 
1955 Young Couples Only (TV short) (story)
 
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1980 Somewhere in Time
Astonished Man - in 1912
 
1977 The Godfather: A Novel for Television (TV mini-series)
Senator #3
 
1976 Captains and the Kings (TV mini-series)
President Garfield
 
1974 The Godfather: Part II
Senator #3 (uncredited)
 
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1977 The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver (TV movie) (associate producer)
 
1963 The Comedy of Terrors (associate producer)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1986 Amazing Stories (TV series) (creative consultant - 2 episodes)
– Life on Death Row (1986) (creative consultant)
– Magic Saturday (1986) (creative consultant)
 
Show ShowThanks (5 titles)
2014 The Last Man (acknowledgment) (pre-production)
 
2012 Rabid Love (short) (thanks)
 
2011 Blüm (short) (thanks)
 
2011 Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (documentary) (thanks)
 
2004 Richard Matheson: The Writing of 'Duel' (video documentary short) (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (22 titles)
2011 Dark Dreamers (TV series) (completed)
Himself
– Forrest J. Ackerman & Richard Matheson … Himself
 
2013 The Life After Death Project (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2012 The AckerMonster Chronicles! (documentary)
Himself
 
2012 Black Magic: The Making of the Devil Rides Out (video documentary short)
Himself - original screenwriter
 
2010 This Week in Comedy (TV series)
Himself
– Norman Steinberg/Richard Matheson (2010) … Himself
 
2010 Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 20 heures le journal (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 16 December 2007 (2007) … Himself
 
2007 HBO First Look (TV series documentary)
Himself
– I Am Legend (2007) … Himself
 
2007 The Fearmakers Collection (video documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Trilogy of Terror: Terror Scribe (video documentary short)
Herself
 
2005 Twilight Zone: The Definitive Edition Interviews (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2005 Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (video documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Richard Matheson: The Writing of 'Duel' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2000 Back to 'Somewhere in Time' (video documentary)
Himself
 
1996 100 Years of Horror: Ghosts (video documentary short)
Himself - Author - 'Hell House'
 
1996 100 Years of Horror: Boris Karloff (video documentary short)
Himself - Screenwriter - 'The Comedy of Terrors'
 
1996 100 Years of Horror: Sorcerers (video documentary)
Himself - Screenwriter, 'The Devil's Bride'
 
1996 100 Years of Horror: Giants (video documentary)
Himself - Screenwriter
 
1996 100 Years of Horror: The Evil Unseeable (video documentary)
Himself
 
1996 100 Years of Horror: The Aristocrats of Evil (video documentary)
Himself
 
1995 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Himself - Writer
– Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (1995) … Himself - Writer
 
1993 The Famous Monsters 1993 World Convention Souvenir Video (video documentary)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
1992 The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (video)
Senator #3
 

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(2002) Novel: "Hunted Past Reason" See more »

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2 Biographical Movies  | 4 Print Biographies  | 10 Interviews  | 2 Articles  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Richard Matheson Sr. | Logan Swanson
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Father of writers Chris Matheson, Ali Marie Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson. See more »

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