Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

Michael MacDonald
2007-05-16


9
48 min

Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.

Cast

Name Character Team
Forrest J. Ackerman Self Unowned
Ray Bradbury Self Unowned
Bobbie Bresee Self Unowned
Lon Chaney Jr. Self (archive footage) Unowned
Lon Chaney Self (archive footage) Unowned
Roger Corman Self Unowned
Joe Dante Self Unowned
John Landis Self Unowned
Fay Wray Self (archive footage) Unowned
Max Schreck Self (archive footage) Unowned
Colin Clive Self (archive footage) Unowned
Ernest Thesiger Self (archive footage) Unowned
Boris Karloff Self (archive footage) Unowned
Christopher Lee Self (archive footage) Unowned
Peter Lorre Self (archive footage) Unowned
Bela Lugosi Self (archive footage) Unowned
Helen Chandler Self (archive footage) Unowned
Claude Rains Self (archive footage) Unowned
Elsa Lanchester Self (archive footage) Unowned
Fredric March Self (archive footage) Unowned
Ray Harryhausen Self Unowned
Vincent Price Self (archive footage) Unowned
Peter Cushing Self (archive footage) Unowned
Zandor Vorkov Self (archive footage) Unowned
Shelly Weiss Self (archive footage) Unowned
Jovanka Vuckovic Self Unowned