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Feb 17, 2021 · The first son of postal worker Edward Davis Wood, Sr., and Lillian Wood, Ed was a bright, handsome child who loved movies and comic books. A voracious reader, he consumed pulp Westerns and horror stories.
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Ed Wood. Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, and pulp novelist. In the 1950s, Wood directed several low-budget science fiction, crime and horror films that later became cult classics, notably Glen or Glenda (1953), Jail Bait (1954), Bride of the Monster (1955), Plan 9 ...
Wood later served in a G-2 (intelligence) unit in the South Pacific until he was shot in the legs by a Japanese machine-gunner. The wounds became gangrenous and he served out the remainder of his time as an office typist, and was honorably discharged in 1944.
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Wood later served in a G-2 (intelligence) unit in the South Pacific until he was shot in the legs by a Japanese machine-gunner. The wounds became gangrenous and he served out the remainder of his time as an office typist, and was honorably discharged in 1944.
- October 10, 1924
- December 10, 1978
Edward Davis Wood, Jr., to most of the world known simply as Ed Wood, was an American filmmaker who spent the 1950s and the 1960s living and working on the outskirts of Hollywood, trying to catch his big break, until ultimately succumbing to alcoholism and dying in complete poverty at the age of 54.
Oct 7, 2019 · Ed Wood was decidedly nothing like a Jim Carrey movie. Dark, sweet and restrained (by Burton standards, anyway), Ed Wood chronicles the life of Edward D. Wood Jr. (Johnny Depp), a...
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Oct 7, 1994 · The anti-acclaim that established Wood as the world's most imaginatively terrible moviedirector, and "Plan 9" as his anti-masterpiece, came years later. Barely released after it was completed...
