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The father of producer/casting director Susan Arnold, Jack Arnold died at age 79 on March 17, 1992.
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- Georges Méliès. It all started with Georges Méliès. Not film itself—although he was there at the earliest stages of cinema—but filmed science fiction was arguably born in 1902 when Méliès released his classic A Trip to the Moon.
- Fritz Lang. If Georges Méliès pioneered sci-fi cinema, then it could be said that Fritz Lang created the sci-fi blockbuster. While this Austrian director (who fled the Third Reich in 1933) made many influential and classic films both in Germany and the U.S., his 1927 film Metropolis was perhaps the most epic vision of the future produced up to that point.
- Jack Arnold. Learning filmmaking while he was in the military during World War II, Jack Arnold started out with dreams of becoming an actor before segueing into directing with several acclaimed documentaries.
- George Pal/Byron Haskin. We’re stapling George Pal and Byron Haskin together essentially because they did their greatest work as a team. Pal started out with a series of short films called Puppetoons before becoming a “showman” type producer, promising—and often delivering—eye-popping spectacles like When Worlds Collide (1951), 1960’s The Time Machine (which he also directed), and Destination Moon (1950), specializing in the kind of high-concept entertainment that producers still salivate after today.
May 6, 2024 · He retired from directing in the mid-1980s. Michael Barson. Jack Arnold was an American director who was considered one of the leading auteurs in the science-fiction genre of the 1950s. Arnold began his career directing and producing dozens of industrial films and documentaries for the government and the private sector.
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Nov 3, 2021 · 1. Jack Arnold was a prolific genre director over the course of his many years as a filmmaker. He started as a cinematographer in the Army Signal Corps during World War II, and after the end of the war started a production company that made promotional films for nonprofit organizations.
Jan 17, 2021 · Born October 14, 1916, in New Haven, Connecticut, Jack Arnold is famous for his 1950's Sci-Fi, Horror flics. As a child he was and avid reader of science fiction and began his career as an actor on and off Broadway. He then served in World War II and found himself working in US Army in…
Aug 1, 2021 · Jack Arnold, who died at the age of 75 in 1992, was the 1950s master of the science fiction film. Among the films he directed were It Came From Outer Space, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, Tarantula, and The Incredible Shrinking Man.
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Mar 17, 1992 · Biography. Jack Arnold (October 14, 1912 – March 17, 1992) was an American television and film director, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of 1950's science fiction films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Arnold (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
