Richard Matheson
Writing
Born February 20, 1926 in 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 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.
Filmography
Now Is Tomorrow
The Shrinking Man
De 6 à 8
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
The Life After Death Project
Self
Real Steel
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
Self
The Box
I Am Legend
I Am Omega
My Ambition
Dance of the Dead
Masters of Horror
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Self
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
Self
Stir of Echoes
Family Guy
What Dreams May Come
Trilogy of Terror II
The Outer Limits
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
The Dreamer of Oz
Loose Cannons
Amazing Stories
The Twilight Zone
Jaws 3-D
Twilight Zone: The Movie
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Somewhere in Time
Astonished Man [1912]
The Martian Chronicles
Dead of Night
The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver
Trilogy of Terror
The Godfather Part II
Senator #3 (uncredited)
The Stranger Within
Icy Breasts
Dracula
The Morning After
Scream of the Wolf
Dying Room Only
The Legend of Hell House
The Night Strangler
Ghost Story
The Night Stalker
Duel
The Omega Man
Cold Sweat
Night Gallery
De Sade
The Devil Rides Out
No Such Thing as a Vampire
Late Night Horror
The Young Warriors
Soy leyenda
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Star Trek
Fanatic
The Last Man on Earth
The Comedy of Terrors
The Raven
Combat!
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Tales of Terror
Night of the Eagle
The Pit and the Pendulum
Master of the World
Thriller
House of Usher
The Twilight Zone
The Beat Generation
Lawman
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Cheyenne