Jack Arnold

Gender: Male
Born: 14th October 1912
Died: 19th November 1992
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Global Affair, Bachelor in Paradise, Black Eye, Boss Nigger, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Girls in the Night, Hello Down There, High School Confidential, It Came from Outer Space, Man in the Shadow, Marilyn: The Untold Story, Monster on the Campus, No Name on the Bullet, Outside the Law, Red Sundown, Revenge of the Creature, Rowan & Martin at the Movies, Sex and the Married Woman, Tarantula, The Glass Web, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Lady Takes a Flyer, The Lively Set, The Man from Bitter Ridge, The Mouse That Roared, The Space Children, The Swiss Conspiracy, The Tattered Dress, The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West, This Island Earth, With These Hands

Jack Arnold (October 14, 1912 – March 17, 1992) was an American television and film director, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of 1950s science fiction films.

Born Jack Arnold Waks in New Haven, Connecticut and as a child read a lot of science fiction books and magazines which would lead to his fandom of science fiction.

During World War II Arnold had intended to become a pilot but was placed in the Signal Corps. Whilst there he learned the tricks of filmmaking from Robert Flaherty.

Arnold directed a number of science fiction films starting in the 50s. The best known of these, the science fiction films It Came from Outer Space, Tarantula, Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Incredible Shrinking Man, are noted for their atmospheric black-and-white cinematography and unusually sophisticated scripts. Later in his career, he went to England to direct the early Peter Sellers film, The Mouse That Roared, in which Sellers played three roles, one of them in drag.

Arnold began his television career in 1955 with several episodes of Science Fiction Theater. He went on to direct the long-running television series Perry Mason and Peter Gunn. He also directed episodes of such

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