Ray Bradbury

Known for: Writing
Born: August 22, 1920, Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.
Died: June 5, 2012
Movies: 57

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th and 21st century American writers of speculative fiction. Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into television shows or films.

Best-Known Movies

7.1

Moby Dick

1956

6.5

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983

6.9

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

1989

6.7

The Halloween Tree

1993

5.5

Rich and Famous

1981

7.4

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

2012

7.1

The Tramp and the Dictator

2002

7.1

Universal Horror

1998

7.0

The Harryhausen Chronicles

1997

6.8

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

2000

Filmography

2025	Starman
2013	Out of Print	Self
2012	Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan	Self
2011	How to Live Forever	Self
2010	Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man	Self
2009	Pulp Fiction: The Golden Age of Storytelling	Self - Novelist
2007	Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman	Self
2006	C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia	Self
2006	The Sci-Fi Boys	Self
2005	Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection	Self
2004	Hollywood Legenden	Self
2003	Hugh Hefner: American Playboy	Self
2003	The Making of 'Fahrenheit 451'	Self
2002	The Tramp and the Dictator	Self (uncredited)
2001	Besuch bei Ray Bradbury	Self
2000	The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect	Self
2000	Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces	Self
1999	The Stan Freberg Commercials	Himself (archive footage)
1998	In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross	Self
1998	Universal Horror	Self - Interviewee
1997	The Harryhausen Chronicles	Self
1996	Corwin	Self
1996	A Century of Science Fiction	Self
1994	In Search of Oz	Self
1993	The Halloween Tree	Narrator (voice)
1991	Hooray for Horrorwood	Self
1991	Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy	Self
1989	The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder	Self
1988	The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska	Self - Introduction(uncredited)
1988	Mall Time	Self
1986	The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal	Self
1985	The Whimsical World of Oz	Self
1983	Aliens, Dragons, Monsters & Me	Himself
1982	Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine	Ralph as a Man (voice)
1982	The Stan Freberg Federal Budget Review
1981	Rich and Famous	Literary Party Guest
1979	Infinite Horizons: Space Beyond Apollo	Himself
1979	Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration	Self

Directing, Writing & Producing

2023	All Summer in a Day	Writer
1996	The Town Where No One Got Off	Writer
1989	The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder	Writer
1989	Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland	Writer
1988	The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska	Writer
1983	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Screenplay
1982	All Summer in a Day	Writer
1979	The Veldt	Writer
1973	Night Caller	Writer
1970	Science Fiction Is Us	Writer
1969	The Picasso Summer	Screenplay
1966	La Sonrisa	Writer
1966	La Espera	Writer
1966	El Cohete	Writer
1966	El Doble	Writer
1966	La bodega (2ª parte)	Writer
1966	La bodega (1ª parte)	Writer
1962	Icarus Montgolfier Wright	Writer
1956	Moby Dick	Screenplay

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