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J. Edward Reynolds was born on 25 September 1909 in South Carolina, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957). He was married to Pauline Parker. He died on 16 April 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor, Producer
- September 25, 1909
- J. Edward Reynolds
- April 16, 1959
J. Edward Reynolds. Actor: Plan 9 from Outer Space. J. Edward Reynolds was born on 25 September 1909 in South Carolina, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957).
- September 25, 1909
- April 16, 1959
- It Was Bela Lugosi’s Last Movie.
- A Chiropractor Played Lugosi’s Double.
- Its Original Title Was Deemed Sacrilegious.
- Those Flying Saucers Were Store-Bought Toys.
- Maila Nurmi (a.k.a. Vampira) Demanded A Silent role.
- Tor Johnson’s Phony Scars Kept migrating.
- It Took Fans Almost 40 Years to Figure Out Who Composed The Score.
- Gregory Walcott’s Script Now Decorates A Bathroom.
- One Snail Mail Contest Rescued The Movie from Relative Obscurity.
A lifelong Bela Lugosi fan, Ed Wood was able to cast his idol in 1953’s Glen or Glenda. Two years later, the director gave him a Dr. Frankenstein-like role in Bride of the Monster. For his next film, Wood once again wanted Lugosi to take center stage. At the California home of Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson—who’d also appeared in Bride of the Monster...
Production on Plan 9 from Outer Space began in earnest after Lugosi’s death. Since he was no longer around to film certain scenes, Wood recruited chiropractor Tom Mason as a substitute. Physically, he wasn’t a perfect stand-in; Mason was noticeably taller than Lugosi (a fact that Wood tried to disguiseby having him hunch over). But the good doctor ...
The film, about aliens who try to conquer Earth by reanimating human corpses and turning them against the living, was given the working title Grave Robbers from Outer Space. But most of the movie’s funding came from J. Edward Reynolds, a devout Southern Baptist, whose religious sensibilities were offended by the title. So Wood changed it to Plan 9 ...
It has been suggested that Wood made his economical-looking spaceships out of hubcaps, pie tins, or dinner plates. But actually, they were just UFO model kitssomeone had picked up at a hobby shop. The “build-it-yourself” saucers were part of a mass-produced, 1956 line from toy manufacturer Paul Lindberg.
Plan 9 is filled with classic lines like “Future events such as these will affect you in the future” and “All you of Earth are idiots!” (Eat your heart out, Shakespeare!) From start to finish, though, the movie’s biggest star is dead quiet. TV’s first horror host, Maila Nurmi had gotten her big break on the Los Angeles station KABC as “Vampira.” Al...
After Inspector Clay (Johnson) is killed off, his semi-mangled corpse rises up and attacks some hapless police officers. For these sequences, makeup wizard Harry Thomas gave the actor some hideous-looking fake bruises. “The scars were created on Tor’s face with cotton spirit gum and collodion,” Thomas said in the 1992 documentary Flying Saucers Ove...
Like most low-budget 1950s flicks, Plan 9 from Outer Space doesn’t have an original soundtrack. Instead, it uses a composite score pieced together from assorted bits of stock music. Music supervisor Gordon Zahler assembled Plan 9’s instrumental tracks on the cheap. Yet, after the fact, he failed to give credit where some was due. Zahler never wrote...
At first, Gregory Walcott (who played Jeff Trent) wanted nothing to do with Plan 9. “I read the script and it was gibberish. It made no sense,” the leading man recalled. Eventually, Walcott swallowed his pride and joined the cast anyway. Little did he know that Plan 9 would overshadow the rest of his career. “I will go to my grave not remembered fo...
In 1978, movie critics Harry and Michael Medved helped co-write The Fifty Worst Films Of All Time. The book was a hit, but many readers took issue with their list. Some 393 genre fans contacted the Medveds demanding to know why Plan 9 from Outer Space hadn’t so much as been mentioned. “People really took us to task for it,” Harry said. “We were sho...
J. Edward Reynolds never planned to be either a movie producer or an actor -- but he ended up doing both, in Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s Plan 9 From Outer Space. By calling, Reynolds was a Baptist preacher from the deep south, but he brought his ministry to Los Angeles after World War II, and ended up playing a key role in the making of that movie ...
J. Edward Reynolds (1909 - 1959) Producer Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) [Gravedigger]: Killed (off-screen, exact method unclear), along with Hugh Thomas Jr. by the zombie Maila 'Vampira' Nurmi in the graveyard. The scene ends with them screaming as Vampira approaches them; their bodies are shown afterwards when Gloria Dea and Ben Frommer discover them.
Budget. $60,000. Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1957 American independent science fiction - horror film produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood. The film was shot in black-and-white in November 1956 and had a preview screening on March 15, 1957 at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles under the title, Grave Robbers from Outer Space. [3]
J. Edward Reynolds. Actor: Plan 9 from Outer Space. J. Edward Reynolds was born on 25 September 1909 in South Carolina, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957).
