Profile of Stuart Gordon on Famous Like Me

Biography

Stuart Gordon (born August 11, 1947) in Chicago, Illinois) is a director, writer and producer of films. Most of Gordon's film work is in the horror genre, though he has also ventured into science fiction. Like his friend and fellow filmmaker Brian Yuzna, Gordon is a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft and has adapted several Lovecraft stories for the screen.

Gordon attended the University of Wisconsin. In 1968, he produced a version of Peter Pan that got he and his wife arrested for obsenity. As Gordon desribed it in a 2001 interview:

"I had been protesting against the war in Viet Nam, and got tear-gassed by the Chicago police, and it suddenly struck me that you could take Peter Pan and turn it into a political cartoon about the whole situation. So, Peter Pan became the leader of the hippies and yippies, Captain Hook became Mayor Daley, and the pirates became the Chicago police. We left all of the James Barrie dialogue intact, so when they all went off to Neverland they sprinkled pixie dust on themselves and think lovely thoughts, and up they go. That was an acid trip, which was visualized by a psychedelic light show that was projected onto the bodies of seven naked young ladies..."

Gordon is married to Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, whom he frequently casts in his movies. Together in 1970, they founded the Chicago Organic Theater, for which Gordon also served as artistic director.

Filmography

As director

• Bleacher Bums (1979)
• Re-Animator (1985)
• Dolls (1987)
• From Beyond (1986)
• Kid Safe: The Video (1988)
• Daughter of Darkness (1989)
• Robot Jox (1989)
• Daughter of Darkness (1990)
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1990)
• Fortress (1992)
• Castle Freak (1995)
• Space Truckers (1996)
• The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (episode "Honey, Let's Trick or Treat") (1998)
• Dagon (2001)
• King of the Ants (2003)
• Edmond (2005)
• Masters of Horror (episode "Dreams In the Witch-House") (2005)

As writer

• Bleacher Bums (1979)
• Re-Animator (1985)
• From Beyond (1986)
• Kid Safe: The Video (1988)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
• Body Snatchers (1993)
• Castle Freak (1995)
• The Dentist (1996)
• Space Truckers (1996)
• Progeny (1998)
• Masters of Horror (episode "Dreams In the Witch-House") (2005)

As producer

• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
• Space Truckers (1996)
• The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)
• Progeny (1998)
• Snail Boy (2000)
• Bleacher Bums (2002)
• Deathbed (2002)
• King of the Ants (2003)
• Edmond (2005)

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