Richard Matheson
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Born 1926-02-20
Died 2013-06-23
Allendale, New Jersey, USA
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Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.
He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times, the first of which, The Last Man on Earth, was co-scripted by him and starred Vincent Price. (The other two adaptations are The Omega Man with Charlton Heston and I Am Legend with Will Smith.) Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel", as well as several adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories for Roger Corman and American International Pictures – House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror and The Raven. He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay directed by Steven Spielberg for the television film Duel that year.
In addition, to I Am Legend and Duel, nine more of his novels and short stories have been adapted as motion pictures: The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man), Hell House (filmed as The Legend of Hell House), What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes, Steel (filmed as Real Steel), and Button, Button (filmed as The Box). The movie Cold Sweat was based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, and Les seins de glace ("Icy Breasts") was based on his novel Someone is Bleeding. Both Steel and Button, Button had previously been episodes of The Twilight Zone.
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Writing
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Star Trek
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Twilight Zone
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cheyenne
The Twilight Zone
Lawman
The Outer Limits
Thriller
Combat!
I Am Legend
Night Gallery
Amazing Stories
Masters of Horror
The Shrinking Man
Ghost Story
Duel
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
What Dreams May Come
Jaws 3-D
Stir of Echoes
The Box
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Somewhere in Time
The Omega Man
The Martian Chronicles
Cold Sweat
The Night Stalker
The Legend of Hell House
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Raven
House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Dracula
The Last Man on Earth
I Am Omega
Loose Cannons
Fanatic
The Devil Rides Out
Tales of Terror
De Sade
Night of the Eagle
Master of the World
The Comedy of Terrors
The Night Strangler
Trilogy of Terror
Dead of Night
Dying Room Only
Icy Breasts
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Soy leyenda
Trilogy of Terror II
The Beat Generation
Acting
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Family Guy
The Godfather Part II
Real Steel
Somewhere in Time
Late Night Horror
I Am Legend 2
Dying Room Only
Trilogy of Terror II
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