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Richard Matheson
Allendale, New Jersey, USA
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 know…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Matheson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
No Such Thing as a Vampire
Movie Writer
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2025
The Shrinking Man
Movie Novel
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2023
De 6 à 8
Movie Original Story
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2019
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Movie Writer
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2013
The Life After Death Project
Movie Self
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2011
Real Steel
Movie Short Story
- 2010
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2009
The Box
Movie Original Story
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2007
I Am Legend
Movie Novel
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2007
I Am Omega
Movie Novel
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2006
My Ambition
Movie Short Story
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2005
Dance of the Dead
Movie Short Story
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2005
Masters of Horror
TV show Writer
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2005
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Movie Self
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2000
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
Movie Self
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1999
Stir of Echoes
Movie Novel
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1999
Family Guy
TV show Short Story
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1998
What Dreams May Come
Movie Novel
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1996
Trilogy of Terror II
Movie Screenplay
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1995
The Outer Limits
TV show Writer
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1994
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Movie Teleplay
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1990
The Dreamer of Oz
Movie Story
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1990
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
Movie Writer
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1990
Loose Cannons
Movie Writer
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1985
Amazing Stories
TV show Writer
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1985
The Twilight Zone
TV show Writer
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1983
Jaws 3-D
Movie Screenplay
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1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Movie Story
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1983
Prey
Movie Short Story
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1981
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Movie Novel
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1980
Somewhere in Time
Movie Astonished Man [1912]
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1980
The Martian Chronicles
TV show Writer
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1977
Dead of Night
Movie Writer
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1977
The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver
Movie Writer
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1975
Trilogy of Terror
Movie Story
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1974
The Godfather Part II
Movie Senator #3 (uncredited)
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1974
The Stranger Within
Movie Teleplay
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1974
Icy Breasts
Movie Novel
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1974
Dracula
Movie Writer
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1974
The Morning After
Movie Teleplay
