Donald f glut biography

Glut (/ɡluːt/; born February 19, 1944) is an.
Donald F. Glut is an American writer, motion picture film director, and screenwriter.
Don has had a long and varied career.

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DONALD F. [Frank] GLUT was born a War Baby on February, 19, 1944 at the Old Camp Hospitaland baptized in the chapelat Pecos Army Air Field, in Pecos, Texas, to Julia Eleanor Blasovitsand 1^st Lieutenant Frank C. Glut — both very talented and creative people when it came to music, art and writing. Don grew up in Chicago, his family’s home town, after his Dad, a baker by trade, was sent overseas to fight the Nazis. Frank died very heroically(to see my Mom interviewed on TV about my Dad, with 16mm home movie footage of all three of us, click here; see also) while co-piloting a B24 “Liberator Bomber” during a raiding mission over Germany, almost at War’s end, just a month before his son’s first birthday. His plane was hit by flak, caught fire and went into a downward spin. By the time it was his turn to bail out, Don sadly but proudly reports, there wasn’t enough altitude for his parachute to fully open. He died a true hero!

While his Dad was stationed at the Army Air Force Base in El Paso, TX, Don received his first award, winning the American Leg

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Donald F. Glut

The name or term "Donald" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Donald (disambiguation).

Donald F. Glut (born February 19, 1944) is an American writer and filmmaker. Glut got his start writing for the Warren horror comics magazines of the '70s such as Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella. He was also an amateur filmmaker throughout the '60s, producing, writing and starring in several fanfilms based on popular superheroes, even playing the titular webhead in a 1969 Spider-Man fanfilm.

In addition to The Transformers, he wrote many, many scripts for other '80s cartoons, including G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Masters of the Universe, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, DuckTales and The Mighty Orbots. A noted dinosaur enthusiast, Glut has written several non-fiction books about dinosaurs and also "supervised" the paleontological accuracy of the 1993 film Carnosaur (good job on that one, Glut). He also wrote the bestselling novelization of The Empire Strikes Back.

Glut's testimony regarding his

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Donald F. Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966. Don has had a long and varied career. He has been a professional musician, actor, film director, executive producer, photographer, magazine editor, proofreader and (very briefly, for an advertising agency) copywriter, but is mostly known for his long career as a freelance writer. He has written and directed feature-length motion pictures, documentaries and music videos, authored approximately 80 fiction and non-fiction published books, myriad TV scripts (live action and animation shows, network and syndicated), comic-book scripts, short stories, magazine articles, even music and theatre. He has been involved with numerous popular franchises such as Star Wars, The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and many others, and created original comic-book characters for Gold Key, Marvel and DC. Arguably Don is best known for his novelization of the second "Star Wars" movie The Empire Strikes Back (#1