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John Bloom is an investigative reporter, essayist and actor who was born in Dallas, raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended Vanderbilt University on a sports-writing scholarship. Bloom began his writing career in Texas, earning two National Magazine Award nominations for his work with Texas Monthly. He was later fired from the Dallas Times-Herald for writing (as "Joe Bob Briggs") a parody of the then-popular song, "We Are The World". Joe Bob Briggs began his television career on The Movie Channel, hosting Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1987) for nine years. During this time, it became TMC's highest-rated show, earning two ACE award nominations. He currently hosts TNT's Monstervision (1991) on Saturday nights, and is at work on an autobiographical screenplay.- The big, bulky and extremely tall John F. Bloom was an imposingly massive 7 foot 4 inch tall giant who was born on February 19, 1944 and grew up both in and around Los Angeles, CA. He originally worked as an accountant until he was convinced to take up acting in 1971 by the legendary Grade Z schlock/exploitation/drive-in filmmaker Al Adamson. Bloom made his film debut as the Frankenstein Monster in the hilariously horrible horror film Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971). He also appeared in supporting roles in the films Brain of Blood (1971) and Angels' Wild Women (1971) for Adamson as well, playing a hulking warrior and a motorcycle gang member, respectively.
Among Bloom's more memorable film roles are a gentle and dim-witted behemoth of a handyman who has the head of a vicious killer grafted onto his body in the deliciously cheesy horror film The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971), a murderous alien who terrorizes Los Angeles in the not-half-bad horror/sci-fi film The Dark (1979), the intimidating bodyguard of an Indian pimp in the hilariously raunchy and raucous film Bachelor Party (1984), a cannibal hillbilly named the Reaper in the terrible horror film The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984), and an enormous antagonistic alien who fights with Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in the science fiction film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
Bloom continued working throughout the 1980s and early 1990s playing tall, hulking thugs or seedy criminals in minor to small roles in films and TV series until health problems led to his semi-retirement in the mid-1990s. Being a giant, he suffered from acromegaly for his entire life, which took a toll on his health and led to an enlarged heart, among other physical problems. John Bloom died of heart failure on January 15, 1999 at the age of 54. - Editor
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Londoner John Bloom was born on September 12th 1935, the younger brother of the actress Claire Bloom. He began his film career as a script reader in the story department at Pinewood studios but became interested in film editing, starting out as assistant to John Trumper on Heart of a Child (1958). His big break came with the film "The Impersonator (1961)" with his first solo credit as editor and throughout the 60s and 70s he worked on a number of British films, gaining an Oscar for "Gandhi (1982)". However since the mid-1980s he has worked chiefly in America, including three collaborations with director Mike Nichols, the cinema films "Closer (2004)" and "Charlie Wilson's War (2007)" and "Wit (2001)", for which he took an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.- Executive
- John M. Bloom is known for Renaissance Girl: The Short Film (2005).
- John Robert Bloom is known for Monsters (1988).
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John Bloom is known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2015), Avengers Assemble (2012) and Marvel Rising: Initiation (2018).- John Steven Bloom is known for End of the Road (2020).
- John James Bloom is known for Bigfoot (2012).
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John Bloom is known for New Nightmare (1994) and Almost Heroes (1998).- John Bloom was born on 8 November 1931 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was married to Anne Cass. He died on 3 March 2019 in Marbella, Spain.
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John Bloom is known for Strangers with Candy (2005).- Producer
John Bloom is known for Dull Space.- Camera and Electrical Department
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John Bloom is known for Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! (1996).- John Bloom is known for Hammerhead (1987).
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John Bloom is known for Alien Suspects (2007).