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Walter Wood (August 4, 1921 – April 20, 2010) was an American film producer and businessman.
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Walter Wood may refer to: Walter Wood (athlete) (1914–1972),...
- Walter Wood
Walter Wood was born on 4 August 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer, known for Escape from East Berlin (1962), The Todd Killings (1971) and The Hoodlum Priest (1961). He was married to Laurel Goodwin and Cindi Wood. He died on 20 April 2010 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
- August 4, 1921
- April 20, 2010
Walter Wood was born on 4 August 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer, known for Escape from East Berlin (1962), The Todd Killings (1971) and The Hoodlum Priest (1961). He was married to Laurel Goodwin and Cindi Wood.
- Producer
- August 4, 1921
- Walter Wood
- April 20, 2010
Walter Wood may refer to: Walter Wood (athlete) (1914–1972), American Olympic athlete; Walter Wood (freestyle skier) (born 1992), American freestyle skier; Walter Wood (producer) (1921–2010), American film producer; Walter Wood (Scouting) (1876–1981), Canadian active in the Boy Scouts; Walter A. Wood (1815–1892), New York ...
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Burton was born on August 25, 1958, in Burbank, California, the son of Jean Burton (néeErickson, 1933–2002), later the owner of a cat-themed gift shop, and William "Bill" Burton (1930–2000), a former minor league baseball player who was working for the Burbank Parks and Recreation Department. As a preteen,[citation needed] Burton would[citation nee...
1981–1987: Early work and breakthrough
Stalk of the Celery Monster attracted the attention of Walt Disney Productions, which offered Burton an animator's apprenticeship at its animation division. He worked as an animator, storyboard artist, graphic designer, art director, and concept artist on films such as The Fox and the Hound (1981), Tron (1982), and The Black Cauldron(1985). His concept art never made it into the finished films. While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop mo...
1988–1994: Batman films and acclaim
Burton directed his next big project: Beetlejuice (1988), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home. Their teenage daughter, Lydia (Winona Ryder), has an obsession with death which allows her to see the deceased couple. Starring Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, and featuring Michael Keaton as the obnoxious bio-exorcist Beetlejuice, the film grossed $80 million on a relat...
1995–2010: Established director
In 1996, Burton and Selick reunited for the musical fantasy James and the Giant Peach, based on the book by Roald Dahl. Burton, once again, served only as a producer due to his contributions to making Mars Attacks! (1996). The film, a combination of live action and stop motion footage, starred Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, David Thewlis, Simon Callow and Jane Leeves among others, with Selick's animation direction. While a box office disappointment for Disney, the film was received well by...
After Kevin Smith had been hired to write a new Superman film, he suggested Burton to direct. Burton came on and Warner Bros. set a theatrical release date for the summer of 1998, the 60th anniversary of the character's debut in Action Comics. Nicolas Cage was signed on to play Superman, Burton hired Wesley Strick to rewrite Smith's script, and the...
Burton was married to Lena Gieseke, a German-born artist. Their marriage ended in 1991 after four years. He went on to live with model and actress Lisa Marie; she acted in the films he made during their relationship from 1992 to 2001, most notably in Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood, and Mars Attacks!. Burton developed a romantic relationship with English ac...
From November 22, 2009, to April 26, 2010, Burton had a retrospective at the MoMA in New York with over 700 "drawings, paintings, photographs, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes and cinematic ephemera", including many from the filmmaker's personal collection. From MoMA, the "Tim Burton" exhibition traveled directly to Aus...
Burton on Burton, edited by Mark Salisbury (1995, revised editions 2000, 2006)The Art of Tim Burton, written by Leah Gallo (2009)The Napkin Art of Tim Burton: Things You Think About in a Bar, edited by Holly Kempf and Leah Gallo (2015)Bassil-Morozow, Helena (2010): Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd. Routledge, London, ISBN 978-0-415-48971-3 Read Introduction at JungArena.comFraga, Kristian (2005): Tim Burton – Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, ISBN 1-57806-758-8Gallo, Leah (2009): The Art of Tim Burton. Steeles Publishing, Los Angeles, ISBN 978-1-935539-01-8Hanke, Ken (1999): Tim Burton: An Unauthorized Biography of the Filmmaker. Renaissance Books, Los Angeles, ISBN 1-58063-046-4Peter Van Wood, pseudonimo di Pieter van Houten (IPA: [ˈpiːtər vɑn ˈɦʌu̯tə(n)]) (L'Aia, 19 settembre 1927 – Roma, 10 marzo 2010), è stato un chitarrista, cantautore e astrologo olandese naturalizzato italiano
Walter Wood (August 4, 1921 – April 20, 2010) was an American film producer and businessman. Wood served as an aide to Dwight D. Eisenhower in the U.S. Army and received a Purple Heart for his service during World War II and the Korean War.
