Ray Bradbury Filmography

Who Is Norman Lloyd?

Actors: Norman Lloyd, Peggy Lloyd, Karl Malden, Ray Bradbury, Cameron Diaz

Synopsis: While Norman Lloyd managed to avoid becoming a household name, over the course of a career in the arts that has spanned eight decades he's distinguished himself as an actor, director, writer and producer in film, television and the legitimate stage. In the Thirties, Lloyd acted in a number of Read More

A Sound of Thunder

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley, Jemima Rooper, David Oyelowo

Synopsis: A seemingly insignificant act may cause the fabric of history to unravel in this sci-fi adventure. Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley) owns and operates a successful firm known as Time Safari. Thanks to time travel technology developed by Hatton's employee Sonia Rand (Catherine McCormack), Time Safari Read More

The Tramp and the Dictator

Actors: Walter Bernstein, Ray Bradbury, Sydney Chaplin, Al Hirschfeld, Stanley Kauffmann

Synopsis: One of the most compelling strokes of fate in the past millenium is the fact that the 20th century's most hated dictator and most beloved film comedian were born within four days of each other in 1889. Although Adolf Hitler probably never gave Charlie Chaplin a second thought during his rise to Read More

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

Actors: Kenneth Branagh

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Fantasist Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his 1957 Saturday Evening Post short story, "The Magic White Suit," previously adapted as a TV drama, a stage musical, and a play. Middle-aged Gomez (Joe Mantegna) hopes to own the beautiful white suit he spots in a store window. Read More

Universal Horror

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Forrest J. Ackerman, Turhan Bey, Ray Bradbury, Jim Curtis

Synopsis: Assembled by film historian Kevin Brownlow and narrated by actor Kenneth Branagh, this 90-minute special celebrates the classic horror films that emanated from Hollywood's Universal Studios. Beginning with such silent classics as The Phantom of the Opera and The Cat and the Canary, Universal went Read More

It Came from Outer Space 2

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Elizabeth Peña, Jonathan Carrasco, Lauren Tewes, Howard Morris

Synopsis: Alien invaders descend upon a peaceful desert community and take over the minds and bodies of the residents. Now only a brave photographer can save them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cronkite Reports: Outer Space - Can We Afford to Go?

The Halloween Tree

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ray Bradbury

Synopsis: Ray Bradbury helped adapt his own classic story for the screen in this spooky animated adventure. Four children are struggling to come to terms with the illness of their close friend, Pip; as they get ready to celebrate Halloween, Pip's favorite holiday, Pip takes a turn for the worse, but as he's Read More

Ray Bradbury: An American Icon

Synopsis: Well-known science fiction novelist and playwright Ray Bradbury has a career that spanned more than five decades, and this documentary seeks to capture his accomplishments in detail. See real footage of the author at home and on the lecture circuit, as well as comments about the man and his work Read More

Walking on Air

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: Originally telecast on PBS' Wonderworks, Walking on Air stars Lynn Redgrave as a dotty science teacher. One of Lynn's students is a paralyzed youth (Jordan Marder), who inexplicably has the ability to float around in the air. With Redgrave's help, the boy offers his services to NASA as a Read More

Strange Tales: Ray Bradbury Theatre

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: At 10:20 PM on June 16, 1985, an avuncular chap named Ray Bradbury, sitting at his typewriter in a room overflowing with clutter, introduced the first of HBO's dramatizations of his off-kilter short stories. Strange Tales: Ray Bradbury Theatre is a videotaped collection of three of those stories Read More

Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby is a Friend of Mine

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Ray Bradbury, Fred Gwynne

Synopsis: Mary Trimble wrote this TV adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story. Brian Svrusis, a 12-year-old growing up in an small American town in the 1940s, comes to idolize mysterious stranger Fred Gwynne. Claiming that he's Charles Dickens, Gwynne holds Svrusis in thrall by revealing details of his Read More

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

Synopsis: The works of "Puppetoon" creator and special effects wizard George Pal are perhaps best seen separately and in toto rather than lumped together in fragmentary form. The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal contains an abundance of enjoyable film clips, but most are far too short for the Read More

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Royal Dano

Synopsis: After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Dr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition: that the grantees will forever join his freak show. Dr. Dark is after two young Read More

Quest

Crew: Book Author

The Electric Grandmother

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: The Electric Grandmother was the second TV adaptation of Ray Bradbury's I Sing the Body Electric (the first was presented on The Twilight Zone in 1962). Maureen Stapleton plays the title character, a custom-made android purchased by widowed Edward Hermann. "Grandma", a magical creation who can Read More

Rich and Famous

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Meg Ryan, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Steven Hill

Synopsis: Two women find their friendship tested when one rises from obscurity to success in this glossy remake of Old Acquaintance. Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) and Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) are close friends who met while they were freshmen at Smith College in the 1950s. Liz has become a highly Read More

The Martian Chronicles

Crew: Book Author, Short Story Author

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Everyone who tuned into The Martian Chronicles during its three-day run in January of 1980 sincerely hoped that it would be the ne plus ultra of televised sci-fi/fantasy. That it fell short of this goal was not the fault of the actors but of the script, which reduced Ray Bradbury's complex Read More

The Flying Machine

Crew: Short Story Author

Mirrors

Crew: Consultant/advisor

Actors: Kitty Winn, Peter Donat, Mary-Robin Redd, William Burns

Synopsis: While on her honeymoon in New Orleans, a woman (Kitty Winn) is cursed by a voodoo queen and suffers terrible nightmares that begin to come true. With her husband (William Swetland), she consults a doctor (Peter Donat) for help. Originally filmed in 1978 with the title Marianne, the film was Read More

The Screaming Woman

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Olivia De Havilland plays a middle-aged woman who has recently been released from a mental institution after suffering a breakdown. She insists one evening that she can hear the muffled scream of a woman emanating from beneath the ground. Since no one else can hear these screams, De Havilland is Read More

The Illustrated Man

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins, Jason Evers

Synopsis: This science fiction fantasy is taken from the stories of Ray Bradbury. Carl (Rod Steiger) has a tattooed torso of bizarre illustrations done by his wife Felicia (Claire Bloom). Each one tells a story about the future, and when Will (Robert Drivas) meets The Illustrated Man in a hobo jungle en Read More

The Picasso Summer

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Albert Finney, Yvette Mimieux

Synopsis: Serge Bourguignon, the auteur of the 1962 Academy Award winner Sundays and Cybele, doesn't quite come up to the standard set by that earlier film in Picasso Summer. Based on a Ray Bradbury story, the film concerns vacationing couple Albert Finney and Yvette Mimieux. Enchanted by the works Read More

Fahrenheit 451

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spencer

Synopsis: In the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers known as "firemen" to perform the necessary book burnings. This is the premise of Ray Bradbury's acclaimed science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, which became the Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Jar

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Pat Buttram, Collin Wilcox, James Best, Slim Pickens, William Marshall

Synopsis: Pat Buttram (he was Mr. Haney on Green Acres) brings a macabre twist to his standard country-bumpkin characterization in this bone-chilling episode. Visiting a traveling carnival, farmer Charlie Hill (Buttram) is fascinated by one of the exhibits: a huge jar, filled with water and mysterious Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Life Work of Juan Diaz

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alejandro Rey, Frank Silvera, Pina Pellicer, Larry Domasin, Val de Vargas

Synopsis: Impoverished and terminally ill Mexican peasant Juan Diaz (Alejandro Rey) makes a deal with gravedigger Alejandro (Frank Silvera) that will enable Juan to provide for his wife, Maria (Pina Pellecier), and their children after his death. When Maria discovers that her late husband had promised to Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Faith of Aaron Menefee

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Small-town garage mechanic Aaron Menefee (Andrew Prine) becomes a devoted disciple of the Reverend Otis Jones (Sidney Blackmer) after the traveling faith healer seemingly cures Menefee's ulcer. Even so, Jones refuses Menefee permission to marry his daughter Emily (Maggie Pierce), arguing that Read More

The Twilight Zone: I Sing the Body Electric!

Crew: Screenwriter, Short Story Author

Actors: Josephine Hutchinson, Veronica Cartwright, David White, Charles Herbert, Dana Dillaway

Synopsis: Though he'd originally intended to write several scripts for the original Twilight Zone, Ray Bradbury's sole contribution to the series was this sensitive adaptation of his own short story "I Sing the Body Electric!" Hoping to fill the void left by the death of his wife, a widower (David White) Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Special Delivery

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Suburbanites Bill and Cynthia Fortnam (Steve Dunne, Beatrice Straight) are a tad surprised when their 11-year-old son, Tom (Peter Lazer), receives a special-delivery package. The package turns out to contain mushroom seeds, which the industrious Tom plants and cultivates in the cellar. Although Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Design for Loving

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Charlie Brailing (Norman Lloyd) dreams of leaving his wife, Lydia (Marian Seldes), and flying off to Rio. Of course, if he were to do this, it would cause nothing but shame and humiliation for all concerned. Thus, Charlie concocts a "foolproof" scheme to make his getaway without detection: he Read More

Moby Dick

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Harry Andrews, Seamus Kelly, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick remains admirably faithful to its source. "Call me Ishmael" declares itinerant whaler Richard Basehart as the opening credits fade. Though slightly Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Retired insurance salesmen Mr. Fox (Robert H. Harris) and Mr. Shaw (John Qualen) are of the theory that the hotter the temperature, the more likely people are to commit murder. Upon making the acquaintance of the nagging Mrs. Shrike (Jo Van Fleet), Mr. Fox and Mr. Shaw are convinced that she is Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: And So Died Riabouchinska

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: A celebrated short story by Ray Bradbury is the source for this eerily entertaining episode. Detective Krovitch (Charles Bronson) shows up at a seedy vaudeville house to investigate the murder of one person and the disappearance of another. Among the suspects is an elderly ventriloquist named John Read More

It Came from Outer Space

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Russell Johnson, Kathleen Hughes

Synopsis: It Came From Outer Space is one of a handful of science fiction films from the 1950s that plays as well today as it did on its original release, this despite the fact that its original 3-D elements seem to be lost. It was also the first science fiction effort of director Jack Arnold, and one of Read More

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods

Synopsis: A longtime "dream" project of production designer-turned-director Eugene Lourie, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms sees the titular beast unleashed on the world via nuclear testing. Making its way from the Arctic Circle, the monster-a carnivorous "rhedosaurus"-begins advancing towards New York. It Read More