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Bob Gale (I)
Bob Gale is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter-producer-director, best known as co-creator, co-writer and co-producer of Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels. Gale was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Cinema from the University of Southern California in 1973. He has written over 30 screenplays; ...
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Writer (35 credits)
2015
Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition
(Video Game) (characters) / (story consultant)
2011
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 5, Outatime
(Video Game) (characters) / (story consultant)
2011
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 4, Double Visions
(Video Game) (characters) / (story consultant)
2011
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 3, Citizen Brown
(Video Game) (characters) / (story consultant)
2011
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 2, Get Tannen
(Video Game) (characters) / (story consultant)
2010
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 1, It's About Time
(Video Game) (characters) / (story consultant)
1993
Tales from the Crypt
(TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
- House of Horror
(1993)
... (screenplay)
1991-1992
Back to the Future
(TV Series) (creator - 26 episodes)
- Verne Hatches a Egg
(1992)
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- St. Louis Blues
(1992)
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- Super Doc
(1992)
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- My Pop's an Alien
(1992)
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- Hill Valley Brown-Out
(1992)
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1986
Amazing Stories
(TV Series) (teleplay - 1 episode)
- Go to the Head of the Class
(1986)
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Director (8 credits)
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Producer (14 credits)
Producer (14 credits)
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Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)
Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)
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Actor (1 credit)
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Special effects (1 credit)
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Thanks (15 credits)
Thanks (15 credits)
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Self (45 credits)
Self (45 credits)
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Archive footage (3 credits)
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Writer, "Amazing Spider-Man", Marvel comics, (2008) See more »Official Sites:
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Bob 'Koldan' Gale
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[ on 'Back to the Future'] I don't know that part one was necessarily hugely cutting-edge. It was a very good melding of mechanical effects, where you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. So we're proud of that. This was way before we had computers or anything digital to do this stuff.. It holds up really well, and is probably the best time-machine film ever made.Trivia:
He and Robert Zemeckis were known as "The Bobs" to Steven Spielberg and John Milius (and others) since they were always working and writing things together in and out of film school. Their writing structure as collaborators entailed both of them to be in the same room discussing things out loud and then one of them writing it down in longhand (as opposed to writing separately and then pooling it ... See more »Star Sign:
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