Edward D. Wood Jr. Edward Davis Wood, Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978), better known as Ed Wood, was an American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and editor, who often performed many of these functions simultaneously. In the 1950s, Wood made a number of cheap genre films, now enjoyed for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, large amounts of ill-fitting stock footage, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts and outlandish plot elements, although his flair for showmanship gave his projects at least a modicum of critical success.

Wood's popularity waned soon after his biggest "name" star, Béla Lugosi, died. He was able to salvage a saleable feature from Lugosi's last moments on film, but his career declined thereafter. Toward the end of his life, Wood made pornographic movies and wrote pulp crime, horror, and sex novels. His infamy began two years after his

User Comments You must Log in or Register to post comments. Stain Those of you who see this hoping for some -- or any -- of the "virtues" that made films like _Plan 9_ immortal will be disappointed. It doesn't look like a Wood film at all, it looks like yet another bargain-basement '70s pr0n film -- not that I've exactly seen tons of such productions, mind you...