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Screenwriter Bob Gale is best known for his work on the "Back to the Future" trilogy. Born in Missouri, Gale as a child made films with his brother and later attended the USC School of Cinema. While there he met Robert Zemeckis, with whom he would collaborate numerous times, and wrote the sci-fi-themed student films "The Annihilator Attacks" and "The Discovery." In 1973 Gale collaborated...

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Interstate 60 (2003)

Mr. Payback (1995)

Interstate 60 (2003)

Bordello of Blood (1996)

Mr. Payback (1995)

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Back To The Future (1985) -- (Movie Clip) A Case Of Missing Plutonium

Back To The Future (1985) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Blind, McFly?

Biography

Screenwriter Bob Gale is best known for his work on the "Back to the Future" trilogy. Born in Missouri, Gale as a child made films with his brother and later attended the USC School of Cinema. While there he met Robert Zemeckis, with whom he would collaborate numerous times, and wrote the sci-fi-themed student films "The Annihilator Attacks" and "The Discovery." In 1973 Gale collaborated with classmate Zemeckis for the first time, on the comedy short "A Field of Honor." After graduating, the two would team up on a slew of projects, sharing writing credit on the Steven Spielberg bomb "1941" and the Beatlemania comedy "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" (Zemeckis's feature directing debut). In 1985 they released their landmark time-travel yarn "Back to the Future," which spawned two sequels, both of which were co-written by Gale. The trilogy of films made over 500 million dollars worldwide, and easily were Gale's most successful works. In 2002, he debuted as a feature-film director with the road movie "Interstate 60," which included appearances from "Back to the Future" cohorts Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Interstate 60 (2003)

Mr. Payback (1995)

Cast (Feature Film)

Writer (Feature Film)

Interstate 60 (2003)

Bordello of Blood (1996)

Mr. Payback (1995)

Trespass (1992)

Back To The Future (Part 3) (1990)

Back To The Future (Part 3) (1990)

Back To The Future (Part 3) (1990)

Back To The Future (Part 2) (1989)

Back To The Future (Part 2) (1989)

Characters As Source Material

Back To The Future (Part 2) (1989)

Back To The Future (Part 2) (1989)

Back To The Future (1985)

Used Cars (1980)

I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)

Producer (Feature Film)

Interstate 60 (2003)

Trespass (1992)

Executive Producer

Back To The Future (Part 3) (1990)

Back To The Future (Part 2) (1989)

Back To The Future (1985)

Used Cars (1980)

I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)

Associate Producer

Director (Special)

House of Horror (1993)

Cast (Special)

The Secrets of the Back to The Future Trilogy (1990)

Writer (Special)

House of Horror (1993)

Used Cars (1984)

Producer (Special)

Time Travel: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy (1985)

Executive Producer

Used Cars (1984)

Special Thanks (Special)

House of Horror (1993)

Used Cars (1984)

Life Events

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Back To The Future (1985) -- (Movie Clip) A Case Of Missing Plutonium The sometimes overlooked opening, filled with broad exposition, from the original screenplay by Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis, as presented by executive producer Steven Spielberg, star Michael J. Fox appearing just at the ending, in the hit time-travel comedy Back To The Future, 1985.

Back To The Future (1985) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Blind, McFly? Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), after a day coping with the frustrations and joys of high school life in “Hill Valley,” California, comes home to find his dad George (Crispin Glover) being abused by his boss Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), wrecking his own plans, in Back To The Future, 1985, from director Robert Zemeckis and executive producer Steven Spielberg.

Back To The Future (1985) -- (Movie Clip) Pleased To Meet You, Calvin Mostly accidentally transported to his home town 30-years earlier, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), aiming to encourage his wimpy father George (Crispin Glover), finds him peeping on his future mom, Lorraine (Lea Thompson), seen earlier in a fat-suit, causing an awkward encounter, in Back To The Future, 1985.

1941 (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Northern California Coast Opening his famously expensive and box-office un-friendly follow up to Jaws and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, director Steven Spielberg decides to have fun with a reference to the former, using the same swimmer (Denise Cheshire), in 1941, 1979, starring John Belushi.

1941 (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Strategically Advantageous A Santa Monica peace-nik housewife (Lorraine Gary) receives Sgt. Tree (Dan Aykroyd) and crew (Treat Williams, John Candy et al), her husband (Ned Beatty) thrilled to accept their anti-aircraft gun, their daughter (Diane Kay) torn between soldiers and her local beau (Bobby DiCiccio), nutty goings-on in Steven Spielberg's 1941, 1979.

1941 (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Save It For The Japs Dan Aykroyd as Sergeant Tree with his crew (Treat Williams as "Sitarski," also John Candy) in a coastal cafe, then meeting gonzo pilot Wild Bill Kelso (John Belushi), observed by veteran Elisha Cook Jr., in Steven Spielberg's 1941, 1979.

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