Richard Matheson

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-02-20 (87 years old)

Deathday

2013-06-23

Place of Birth

Allendale, New Jersey, USA

Richard Matheson

Biography

Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times, the first of which, The Last Man on Earth, was co-scripted by him and starred Vincent Price. (The other two adaptations are The Omega Man with Charlton Heston and I Am Legend with Will Smith.) Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel", as well as several adaptations of Edgar Allan...

Production

1971

Duel

as Screenplay

1964

1971

2009

The Box

as Original Story

2007

I Am Omega

as Novel

1999

1960

1990

Loose Cannons

as Writer

1973

1961

1963

The Raven

as Screenplay

1962

Tales of Terror

as Screenplay

1964

1970

Cold Sweat

as Novel

1959

1965

Fanatic

as Screenplay

1980

1980

Somewhere in Time

as Screenplay

1972

1973

1962

1996

1975

Trilogy of Terror

as Screenplay

1975

1961

Master of the World

as Screenplay

1977

Dead of Night

as Writer

1973

Dying Room Only

as Teleplay

1974

Dracula

as Writer

1969

De Sade

as Screenplay

1974

1967

1983

1974

2005

1968

The Devil Rides Out

as Screenplay

1973

Dying Room Only

as Short Story

1971

Duel

as Story

1974

The Stranger Within

as Short Story

1974

2006

My Ambition

as Short Story

1983

Jaws 3-D

as Screenplay

2011

Real Steel

as Short Story

1964

The Comedy of Terrors

as Associate Producer

1974

Icy Breasts

as Novel

2007

I Am Legend

as Novel

1967

Soy leyenda

as Novel

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I Am Legend 2

as Characters

1983

Prey

as Short Story

1977

Dead of Night

as Original Story

1977

1990

1990

The Dreamer of Oz

as Screenplay

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