Dan O'Bannon Biography (1946-)

Full name, Daniel Thomas O'Bannon; born September 30, 1946, in St. Louis, MO;son of Thomas Sidney (a carpenter) and Bertha (maiden name, Lowenthal) O'Bannon; married Diane Louise Lindley, January 18, 1986. Addresses: Agent:Agency for the Performing Arts, 9000 Sunset Blvd., Suite 900, Los Angeles, CA 90069-3604.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Writer, director, animator, special effects artist
Birth Details: September 30, 1946; St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Director
The Return of the Living Dead, Orion, 1985
The Resurrected (also known as Shatterbrain), Live Home Video, 1992
Other
Editor, production designer, set decorator, special effects photographer,and special effects director (with Bill Taylor), Dark Star (also known as Dark Talon), Jack H. Harris, 1975
Computer animator, Star Wars (also known as Star Wars: EpisodeIV: The New Hope), Twentieth-Century Fox, 1977
Conceptual designer, Alien, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979
(With Thomas Warkentin, Angus McKie, Richard Corben, Juan Gimenez, and Lee Mishkin) Animation designer, Heavy Metal, Columbia, 1981
Also affiliated with the short film Bloodbath.
Film Appearances
Pinback, Dark Star (also known as Dark Talon), Jack H. Harris, 1975
Clerk, Delivering Milo, IMMI Pictures/Lakeshore International, 2000

RECORDINGS
Video Documentaries
Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors, 1986
The Alien Legacy (also known as The Eighth Passenger: The AlienLegacy), Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment, 1999
WRITINGS
Screenplays
(With John Carpenter) Dark Star (also known as Dark Talon),Jack H. Harris, 1975
(With Ronald Shusett) Dead & Buried, Avco-Embassy, 1981
"Soft Landing" and "B-17" segments, Heavy Metal (also based on a story by O'Bannon), Columbia, 1981
(With Don Jakoby) Blue Thunder (also known as Blue Thunder: TheMovie), Columbia, 1983
(With Jakoby) Lifeforce (based on the novel The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson), TriStar, 1985
The Return of the Living Dead, Orion, 1985
(With Jakoby) Invaders from Mars (based on an earlier screenplay by Richard Blake), Cannon, 1986
(With Shusett and Gary Goldman) Total Recall (based on the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick), TriStar, 1990
(With Miguel Tejada-Flores) Screamers (also known as Screamers--L'armee souterraine; based on the short story "The Second Variety" by Dick), Triumph, 1996
(With Shusett and Charles Adair) Hemoglobin (also known as Bleeders and The Descendant), Fries Film Group/A-pix Entertainment Group/Hellas Video, 1997
Television Episodes
Contributing writer, Blue Thunder, ABC, 1984
Other Writings
Alien: The Movie Novel, edited by Richard J. Anobile, Morrow (NewYork City), 1979

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

The film Alien was based on a story by O'Bannon, as were the sequels Alien 3, 1992, and Alien: Resurrection (also known as Alien 4), released by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1997.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Starlog, July, 1996

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