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Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen.
The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Irving Block on April 16, 1965. The interview was conducted at Irving Block's home in Los Angeles, California by Betty Lochrie Hoag for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
May 7, 1986 · Irving A. Block, a professor emeritus at California State University, Northridge, and a noted painter and film maker, has died of a stroke. He was 73. Block, a Studio City resident, was born in...
Irving Block was born on 2 December 1910 in New York, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Forbidden Planet (1956), Kronos (1957) and War of the Satellites (1958). He was married to Gilda Block. He died on 3 May 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Visual Effects, Writer, Special Effects
- December 2, 1910
- Irving Block
- May 3, 1986
Irving Block was a quadruple-threat artist in film -- as a production designer, special effects designer, producer, and writer -- but that was only one facet of a three-tiered career he enjoyed from the 1930s through the 1980s, as an artist, filmmaker, and teacher.
Nov 6, 2002 · Rabbi Irving J. Block, an ecumenical-minded religious leader who founded the Brotherhood Synagogue in Manhattan and delighted in sharing the sanctuary with Christians of all denominations, died...
Kronos (a.k.a. Kronos, Destroyer of the Universe or Kronos, Ravager of Planets) is a 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film from Regal Films, a division of 20th Century-Fox. It was produced by Irving Block, Louis DeWitt, Kurt Neumann, and Jack Rabin, directed by Kurt Neumann, and stars Jeff Morrow and Barbara Lawrence.
