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Gloria Katz

Gloria Katz

Writing

Biography

Gloria Katz (October 25, 1942 - November 25, 2018) was an American screenwriter and film producer, best known for her association with George Lucas. Along with her husband Willard Huyck, Katz created the screenplays of films including American Graffiti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Howard the Duck.

Known For

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
7.3

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1984
American Graffiti
7.0

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

American Graffiti

1973
Howard the Duck
5.5

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

Howard the Duck

1986
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
7.1

The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American cinema, an exalted celebration of creativity and experimentation; but also of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: a turbulent and dark tale of ambition, envy, betrayal, hatred and self-destruction.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

2003
More American Graffiti
5.2

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

More American Graffiti

1979
Radioland Murders
5.9

A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

Radioland Murders

1994
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
6.5

Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

2006
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
7.9

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

2003
Best Defense
4.3

An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

Best Defense

1984
Lucky Lady
5.5

When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.

Lucky Lady

1975
Messiah of Evil
6.2

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.

Messiah of Evil

1975
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
7.8

Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film American Graffiti (1973)

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

1998
Mothers, Daughters and Lovers
8.0

A single mother struggles to raise two teenage daughters in a small town in America.

Mothers, Daughters and Lovers

1989
A Father's Homecoming
6.5

Long separated from his teenaged son and daughter, Michael Fields comes into contact with them in a most unexpected fashion. He is appointed headmaster of the exclusive New England private school where they both are enrolled.

A Father's Homecoming

1988
French Postcards
5.1

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.

French Postcards

1979
Howard the Doc or: How I Learned to Start Quacking and Love the Bomb
N/A

Fans of the legendary and infamous 1986 comic-book adaptation "Howard the Duck" talk about what it is that they enjoy about this film about a fowl from another planet and his misadventures in Cleve Land.

Howard the Doc or: How I Learned to Start Quacking and Love the Bomb

Remembering Messiah of Evil
N/A

Documentary on the making of "Messiah of Evil," the surreal horror cult classic written by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, directed by Willard Huyck. Includes interviews with Huyck and Katz as well as cinematographer Stephen M. Katz, editor Billy Weber, co-editor and actor Morgan Fisher.

Remembering Messiah of Evil

2009
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Suitors—Even
N/A

Gloria Katz's "The Bride Stripped Bare" is a split screen faux-docu "happening" around a piece of performance art that confronts male attitudes toward women as sex objects.

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Suitors—Even

1966