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Alan Ormsby

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Writer, director and make-up effects artist Alan Ormsby was born in 1944. He was a drama student at the University of Florida. He met director Bob Clark while attending college. The pair first collaborated on the amusing tongue-in-cheek low-budget zombie horror hoot Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. Ormsby not only co-wrote the script and did the effectively ghoulish zombie make-up... See full bio »

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2002 The District (TV series)
– The Second Man (2002) (written by)
– This Too Shall Pass (2002) (written by)
 
2001 The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option (video) (characters)
 
1999-2001 Nash Bridges (TV series)
– The Partner (2001) (written by)
– The Messenger (2000) (written by)
– Line of Sight (2000) (written by)
– Crosstalk (1999) (written by)
 
1999 The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (TV movie) (characters)
 
1998 Mulan (additional story material)
 
1998 The Substitute 2: School's Out (TV movie) (characters)
 
1996 The Substitute (written by)
 
1996 Deadly Web (TV movie) (written by)
 
1993 The Disappearance of Nora (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1992 Indecency (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1991 Popcorn (screenplay / as Tod Hackett)
 
1987 Not Quite Human (TV movie)
 
1986 Touch and Go (written by)
 
1983 Porky's II: The Next Day (written by)
 
1982 Cat People (screenplay)
 
1980 My Bodyguard (written by)
 
1979 The Little Dragons (written by)
 
1974 Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile
 
1973 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (screenplay collaboration)
 
1973 Artists and Models Ball
 
1972 Dead of Night (written by)
 
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2001 Nash Bridges (TV series) (story editor - 8 episodes)
– Fair Game (2001) (story editor)
– Cat Fight (2001) (story editor)
– Change Up (2001) (story editor)
– Kill Joy (2001) (story editor)
– Quack Fever (2001) (story editor)
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1977 Shock Waves (special makeup designer)
 
1974 Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (makeup artist)
 
1973 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (special makeup creator)
 
1972 Dead of Night (makeup effects)
 
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1974 Lenny
Man in Audience of Cellar Club (uncredited)
 
1973 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Alan
 
1972 Dead of Night
Bystander
 
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1996 Deadly Web (TV movie) (associate producer)
 
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1991 Popcorn (lyrics: "SCARY SCARY MOVIES")
 

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Wrote the make-up effects book "Movie Monsters" in 1976.

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Tod Hackett
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They were fun to make. There was a kind of communal feeling about the process that I haven't experienced since. (on making low-budget horror films with Bob Clark in the early 1970s) See more »

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Father, with wife Hilary Thompson, of son Austin (b. 1991) See more »