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Bob Gale
Birth at
25 May 1951
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Bob Gale is a director, writer (Back to the Future, Batman) and producer. As an actor, he is little known – he played himself in several films.
Bob Gale was born in Missouri. Since childhood, he was fond of Disney works and copied pictures from Disney comics on paper. He started writing short stories at school and then combined them into his own comic book. And then he started making a narrow-format movie. He enjoyed it all, but didn’t consider it serious. He thought his future was technical. He
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Bob Gale is a director, writer (Back to the Future, Batman) and producer. As an actor, he is little known – he played himself in several films.
Bob Gale was born in Missouri. Since childhood, he was fond of Disney works and copied pictures from Disney comics on paper. He started writing short stories at school and then combined them into his own comic book. And then he started making a narrow-format movie. He enjoyed it all, but didn’t consider it serious. He thought his future was technical. He entered the Technical College, the engineering school at Tulane University. But after studying the semester, I realized that I was wrong, and his calling is somewhere else. Accidentally learned about the existence of film schools in California and wrote there, just curious. And, (miracles sometimes happen) was accepted.
At film school, he met Robert Zemeskis, whose friendship and cooperation lasted for many years. Gale wrote the scripts, and Zemeskis tried himself as a director. They made their first low-budget film, Bordello of Blood. Soon the scripts of friends interested Steven Spielberg, he co-produced (the second was Gale) for several films. On the screen came the tapes “I want to hold your hand” (about fans of the Beatles) and “used cars”.
The movie "Back to the Future" had a difficult fate. Gale wrote this script for Columbia. But this studio, and several others, rejected it. A few years later, he wrote a sequel to the script. And on the screens came "Back to the Future 2" and "Back to the Future 3". In the movie House of Horrors, he was both a screenwriter and director. In 1997, Gale signed a contract with a Disney studio and wrote stories for famous comics: “Batman”, “Spider-Man”, etc.