Jerome Bixby

Jerome Bixby

Birth : 1923-01-11, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Death : 1998-04-28

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 in Los Angeles, California – April 28, 1998 in San Bernardino, California) was an American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter, best known for his work in science fiction. He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St. Vivant, Thornecliff Herrick and Alger Rome (for one collaboration with Algis Budrys). He is most famous for the 1953 story "It's a Good Life" which was the basis for a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone and which was included in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). He also wrote four episodes for the Star Trek series: "Mirror, Mirror", "Day of the Dove", "Requiem for Methuselah", and "By Any Other Name". With Otto Klement, he co-wrote the story upon which the classic sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage (1966), television series, and novel by Isaac Asimov were based. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerome Bixby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Jerome Bixby
Jerome Bixby

Movies

The Man from Earth: Holocene
The Man from Earth: Holocene
Characters
14,000 year-old "Man from Earth" John Oldman, now teaching in northern California, realizes that not only is he finally starting to age, but four students have discovered his deepest secret, putting his life in grave danger and potentially destroying the world's most popular religion.
The Man from Earth
The Man from Earth
Writer
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Original Story
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the TV series "Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and featuring one original story "Time Out".
Fantastic Voyage
Fantastic Voyage
Story
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
The Lost Missile
The Lost Missile
Screenplay
A missile from parts unknown enters an orbit only 5 miles above Earth's surface and, due to friction from its intense speed through our atmosphere, proceeds to incinerate everything in its immediate wake.
Curse of the Faceless Man
Curse of the Faceless Man
Screenplay
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Screenplay
In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned; by the time a rescue mission arrives, there is only one survivor: the leader, Col. Edward Carruthers, who appears to have murdered the others! According to Carruthers, an unknown life form killed his comrades during a sandstorm. But the skeptical rescuers little suspect that "it" has stowed away for the voyage back to Earth...
Tales of Frankenstein
Tales of Frankenstein
Screenplay
In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife…