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Bert Ira Gordon (September 24, 1922 – March 8, 2023) was an American filmmaker and visual effects artist. He is best known for screenwriting and producing and/or directing science fiction and horror B-movies such as King Dinosaur (1955), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Earth vs. the Spider (1958), Village of the Giants (1965), and Empire of ...
Bert I. Gordon. Director: The Food of the Gods. Bert I. Gordon, affectionately nicknamed "Mr. B.I.G." by Forrest J. Ackerman, produced, directed, and wrote more than twenty-five Sci/Fi and Horror features, such as The Magic Sword (1962), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Village of the Giants (1965), The Cyclops (1957), in addition to comedies such as How to Succeed with Sex (1970).
Mar 8, 2023 · Bert Ira Gordon was born in Kenosha, Wis., on Sept. 24, 1922, the son of Charles Abraham Gordon and Sadeline (Barnett) Gordon. He became interested in film as a boy, when an aunt gave him a 16 ...
Mar 8, 2023 · Bert Ira Gordon was born on Sept. 24, 1922, in Welles’ hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin. His love of special effects could be traced to the first film camera he was given when he was 9.
Mar 9, 2023 · Bert I. Gordon, an American filmmaker whose low-budget creature features brought super-sized monsters to drive-in cinemas in the mid-20th century, died Wednesday in Los Angeles after collapsing at ...
Mar 10, 2023 · Bert I. Gordon, who unleashed a parade of cinematic horrors as the filmmaker behind Atomic Age movies about mutant ants, 60-foot giants, rampaging grasshoppers and a bloodthirsty spider that ...
Mar 8, 2023 · Gordon's films featured a cyclops, dinosaurs, massive mealworms, oversized rats, huge grasshoppers, dragons and — possibly most frightening — giant teenagers. Bert I. Gordon Dead: Monster Film ...
