George Gipe

George Gipe (February 3, 1933, Baltimore, Maryland – September 6, 1986, Glendale, California) was an American magazine writer, author and screenwriter. Gipe died at the age of 53 as the result of an allergic reaction to a bee sting.^[1]

Life

A native of Baltimore, in 1958 Gipe began working at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, working as a cameraman and set and production manager. He later joined WMAR-TV in Baltimore, where he won awards for documentaries and local programming.

His career as a writer began in 1967 with a non-fiction work called Nearer to the Dust: Copyright and the Machine, which anticipated several future legal issues surrounding computerized storage of copyrighted writing and information. Other non-fiction work followed; his only original novel, Coney Island Quickstep, was issued in 1977.

Gipe is chiefly remembered for his contributions to two screenplays:

Gipe was allergic to bee stings, and while in Glendale, California, he was stung by a bee. He was pronounced dead on arrival on September 6, 1986.[1]

Works

Novel

• Coney Island Quickstep (1977)

Novelizations

• Melvin and Howard (1980)
• Resurrection (1980)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• Explorers (1985)

Short stories

• "The Cask of Amarillo Texas" (1969)

Nonfiction

• Nearer to the Dust: Copyright and the Machine (1967)
• The Great American Sports Book (1978)
• The Last Time When... (1982)

Screenplays

• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (co-written with Carl Reiner & Steve Martin)
• The Man with Two Brains (1983) (co-written with Carl Reiner & Steve Martin)

References

External links

• George Gipe at
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