Ellison,

Biography

b. Andrew Ellison, 5 July 1946, Leatherhead, Surrey, Britain. Ellison has already established a assorted musical profession. He began like a single singer in the first 60s but later on caused John’s Children, Aircraft and eventually past due 70s quirky pop music group the Radio Celebrities. In every he released three single singles for three different brands in the past due 60s – ‘It’s Been AN EXTENDED Period’ (Monitor), ‘Fool From Top Eden’ (CBS Information) and ‘You Can’t Perform That’ (S.N.B.). non-e breached the graphs or bought from substantial amounts, although each has turned into a collector’s item due to Ellison’s following musical activities. Within the 90s Ellison was involved with a re-formation from the ever-popular John’s Kids.

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#	Fact
1	Stephen King, in "Danse Macabre" describes the scene in the pitching sessions for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) where an executive kept rejecting ideas, saying "No, we've got to think big!" Harlan tired of this and said: "How about this? The Enterprise travels light years out of the galaxy, breaks through the wall of the Universe, and there in front of them is the massive face of God. How's that?" The executive fidgeted for a moment then said "No, that's still not big enough. We need an idea that's big." Harlan said "Screw this. I'm a writer. I don't know what the hell you are.".
2	In Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008), he describes how he visited a TV recording session for one of his scripts where the actress, who he claims was "shtupping someone", kept mispronouncing "Camus" as "Came-us". Harlan caused a scene, shouting that "Everyone'll think I'm an idiot". The director asked who Harlan was and when told he was the writer said "What's he doing here?". Harlan left and the mistake was never corrected.
3	In Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008), he claims that a set designer working from the Script of Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever (1967) misread the word "runes" as "ruins" and took something away from his vision.
4	Neil Gaiman once visited him at his home and was asked to distract an editor who was there to pick up a story while Ellison finished writing it.
5	Two of his most well-regarded stories "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman", and "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" were each written the night before their deadlines.
6	(1994-1999) Creative consultant for the television series, Babylon 5 (1994).
7	An outspoken supporter of Human Rights organizations.
8	When he first took a writing course, his teacher told him he was terrible and should give up writing. When he became successful, he sent the teacher a copy of every good review his work ever got.
9	Ellison was named Grand Master at the 2006 Nebula Awards ceremony in Tempe, Arizona. The Nebulas are given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which Ellison helped found in 1965 and which he has publicly derided as parochial, unprofessional, ignorant and irrelevant. [See Quotes, below].
10	He has won 22 awards for writing, more than almost any other living writer.
11	While in the U.S. Army, his sergeant called him The Author because Ellison could usually be found behind a typewriter.
12	Prefers to be called a "fantasist" rather than a "Sci-Fi Writer".
13	When J. Michael Straczynski was a struggling young writer, he telephoned Harlan Ellison for advice. Ellison replied, "The reason your stories are being rejected is because you're writing crap. Stop writing crap!".
14	Had his own name registered as a trademark in 2005.
15	When asked by J. Michael Straczynski what role he wanted to play in the production of Babylon 5 (1994) Ellison replied, "I want to be the mad dog of continuity enforcement who bites people on the leg.".
16	When he was 20, he researched an inner-city gang by joining them for ten weeks. He published his account of having joined them ("the Gang"), along with his experience of being arrested and jailed for one day ("the Tombs"), as the book "Memos from Purgatory".
17	His father was a dentist.
18	In a magazine interview, he stated that the two fictional characters he closely identifies with are Zorro and Jiminy Cricket.
19	Richard Dreyfuss based his character of Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl (1977) on Ellison, a good friend of his.
20	His novella, "A boy and his dog," won the 1969 Nebula Award.
21	Guest of Honor at PghLANGE science-fiction convention (Pittsburgh, 17-19 July 1970).
22	Interviewers and fans ask questions about his work at the risk of being on the receiving end of a barrage of vicious insults regarding the impertinence of the question and the intelligence of the questioner.
23	Following a lawsuit, his name was added to the credits of the movie The Terminator (1984). He claimed that the time travel and indestructible robot components in the movie were ripped off by James Cameron and never credited to him. Cameron, in turn, denies having ever been influenced by Ellison's work. However, Cameron's producers said that if he would lose the lawsuit, he himself would be responsible for the financial losses, giving Cameron no other choice than to begrudgingly settle the case out of court.
24	In his book "Stalking the Nightmare", he recounts an incident that led to his being fired from Walt Disney Productions on his first day of work. At lunch in the studio commissary, he jokingly told fellow writers that they should "do a Disney porn flick", and proceeded to act out parts in the voices of various Disney characters, unaware that animation head Roy Edward Disney and other studio chiefs were sitting nearby. Ellison claims that when he returned to his office, he found a termination letter on his desk, and his name on his parking space had been painted over.
25	He was a conceptual consultant for the television show Babylon 5 (1994), helping out his friend, the show's creator, J. Michael Straczynski. His cameos on Babylon 5 (1994) include two episodes where his voice was used and a brief on-screen appearance as a "Psi Cop".
26	He used to be a spokesperson for Geo Metro automobiles, billed as a "noted futurist".
27	Graduated from Cleveland's East High School.
28	An outspoken gun control advocate, he is responsible for the removal of B-B gun ads from DC Comics. According to a convention transcript printed in The Comics Journal, on a Friday he made a phone call to DC publisher Jeanette Kahn, suggesting that such ads were inappropriate for children. She called him back before the weekend was out assuring him that there would never be another B-B gun ad in a DC comic. In the same transcript, when prompted by Marvel Comics executive Stan Lee (also an advocate of gun control), Ellison admits that growing up with these ads didn't do him any harm.
29	He won one of his many Hugo Awards and one of his four Writer's Guild awards for best teleplay for Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever (1967).
30	Ellison's pseudonym "Cordwainer Bird" is reserved for works where he considers that the producers have so tampered with the integrity of his original story that he wants the whole world to know it. Hence, if you see something credited to "Cordwainer Bird", you know that Ellison is so angry at his treatment that he's going to force the producers to publicly acknowledge the fact (via the credits) that he considers them rather worse than fools. It is also a reference to the great science-fiction writer Cordwainer Smith. "Cordwainer Smith", in turn, was the pseudonym of Dr. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (1913-1966), a professor of Asiatic politics, expert on psychological warfare, and advisor to President Kennedy.
31	Cordwainer Bird means "one who makes shoes for birds".
32	He is famous for his hot temper and outspoken nature, which has led to more then his share of high-profile feuds. The most famous of them was with Star Trek (1966) creator Gene Roddenberry, who had Ellison's famous television script (Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever (1967)) heavily rewritten to fit with Roddenberry's more utopian ideas of the future. Roddenberry would not allow him to put his pseudonym "Cordwainer Bird" on the project. To add insult to injury, for the rest of his life Roddenberry took credit for having "saved" the story, which is consistently ranked as the best of the series by critics and fans and as one of TV's 100 greatest moments by "TV Guide" (July 1, 1995).



Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status	Character
Babylon 5: A Call to Arms	1999	TV Movie conceptual consultant
Babylon 5	1994-1998	TV Series conceptual consultant - 110 episodes
Babylon 5: The River of Souls	1998	TV Movie conceptual consultant
Babylon 5: Thirdspace	1998	TV Movie conceptual consultant
Babylon 5: In the Beginning	1998	TV Movie conceptual consultant
Babylon 5: The Gathering	1993	TV Movie consultant - uncredited
The Twilight Zone	1985-1986	TV Series creative consultant - 14 episodes
The Sixth Sense	1972	TV Series story editor - 4 episodes

Writer

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Masters of Science Fiction		TV Series short story "The Abnormals" - 1 episode, 2007 teleplay - 1 episode, 2007
The Outer Limits		TV Series short story "The Human Operators" - 1 episode, 2002 short story - 1 episode, 1999
Babylon 5	1998	TV Series story - 2 episodes
Silver Surfer	1998	TV Series story - 1 episode
The Hunger		TV Series story - 1 episode, 1998 teleplay - 1 episode, 1998
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	1995	Video Game design, dialog and story / short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"
Try a Dull Knife	1992	story
The Twilight Zone		TV Series written by - 1 episode, 1989 teleplay by - 1 episode, 1986 from a short story by - 1 episode, 1985 teleplay - 1 episode, 1985 based on the short story by - 1 episode, 1985
Tales from the Darkside	1985	TV Series story - 1 episode
The Starlost: Deception	1980	TV Movie creator - as Cordwainer Bird
The Starlost: The Beginning	1980	TV Movie as Cordwainer Bird
Jackpot	1980	story
Logan's Run	1977	TV Series story - 1 episode
A Boy and His Dog	1975	novella
The Starlost		TV Series creator - 16 episodes, 1973 - 1974 written by - 1 episode, 1973
Circle of Fear	1973	TV Series story - 1 episode
The Young Lawyers	1971	TV Series written by - 1 episode
The Flying Nun	1968	TV Series written by - 1 episode
Cimarron Strip	1968	TV Series written by - 1 episode
Star Trek	1967	TV Series written by - 1 episode
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.		TV Series story - 1 episode, 1967 teleplay - 1 episode, 1967 writer - 1 episode, 1966
The Oscar	1966	screenplay
Historias para no dormir	1966	TV Series 1 episode
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	1964	TV Series story and teleplay - 1 episode
The Outer Limits	1964	TV Series written by - 2 episodes
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	1964	TV Series written by - 1 episode
Burke's Law	1963-1964	TV Series written by - 4 episodes
Route 66	1963	TV Series based on a story by - 1 episode
Ripcord	1963	TV Series written by - 1 episode

Actor

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Simpsons	2014	TV Series	Harlan Ellison
The Delivery	2008/I	Short	Dan / White Rabbit
Masters of Science Fiction	2007	TV Series	Nate
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal	1999	TV Series	Grifter
Babylon 5	1996-1998	TV Series	Zooty / Psi Cop / Sparky the Computer
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	1995	Video Game	AM (voice)
The Pirates of Dark Water	1992-1993	TV Series
The Godson	1971		Guy with Barbara and Brunette (uncredited)

Thanks

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
Back on Earth?	2013	Short inspirational thanks
All Things Shining	2012	inspirational thanks
The Comet Chronicles	2011	Short special thanks
Kobresia: Fragments	2011	Short inspirational thanks
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men	2007	Video with acknowledgement to the works of
Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II		TV Series special thanks - 1 episode, 2007 respectful acknowledgement - 1 episode, 2004
Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman	2005	Video documentary short special thanks
The Terminator	1984	acknowledgment to the works of

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Pizza with Mr. Harlan Ellison and Mr. Neil Gaiman	2009	Video documentary short	Himself
Dreams with Sharp Teeth	2008	Documentary	Himself
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore	2007	Documentary	Himself
'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris	2006	Documentary	Himself
Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman	2005	Video documentary short	Himself
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy	2005	Video documentary	Himself
Politically Incorrect	1999	TV Series	Himself - Panelist
The Anti Gravity Room	1995	TV Series	Himself
Sci-Fi Buzz	1993	TV Series	Himself
The Masters of Comic Book Art	1987	Documentary	Narrator
The History of the SF Film	1982	TV Movie documentary	Guest
Since '45	1979	Documentary	In new expanded version
Fantasy Film Festival	1979	TV Series	Himself
The Mike Douglas Show	1962	TV Series	Himself - Writer
Since '45 - In the Extraordinary House of History	2017	Documentary filming	Himself
Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike	2014	Documentary	Himself
In Conversation: Director L.Q. Jones & Writer Harlan Ellison	2013	Video documentary	Himself
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated	2010-2013	TV Series	Himself
Prophets of Science Fiction	2012	TV Series documentary	Himself - Author
Dark Dreamers	2011	TV Series	Himself
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story	2010	Documentary	Himself
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man	2010	Documentary	Himself
An Evening with Sharp Teeth	2009	Video documentary short	Himself

Won awards

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
2000	WGC Award	Writers Guild of Canada		The Outer Limits (1995)	· Naren Shankar (screen story and teleplay) · A.E. van Vogt (story)
1996	Lifetime Achievement Award	Bram Stoker Awards
1987	WGA Award (TV)	Writers Guild of America, USA	Anthology Episode/Single Program	The Twilight Zone (1985)
1976	Golden Scroll	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Writing	For his career.
1976	Hugo	Hugo Awards	Best Dramatic Presentation	A Boy and His Dog (1975)	· L.Q. Jones (screenplay/director) · Wayne Cruseturner (screenplay)
1974	WGA Award (TV)	Writers Guild of America, USA	Episodic Drama	The Starlost (1973)
1968	Hugo	Hugo Awards	Best Dramatic Presentation	Star Trek (1966)	· Joseph Pevney (director)
1968	WGA Award (TV)	Writers Guild of America, USA	Episodic Drama	Star Trek (1966)

Nominated awards

Nominated awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1976	Nebula Award	Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America	Best Dramatic Writing	A Boy and His Dog (1975)	· L.Q. Jones



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#	Quote
1	The Universe doesn't even know we're here.
2	I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
3	When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
4	I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
5	To say more, is to say less.
6	Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
7	I was giving a lecture, and afterwards a student put up his hand and said 'Mr Ellison, you keep mentioning this person Dachau, like he's someone I'm supposed to have heard of. Who is Dachau, please?' I'm sorry but your kids are stick-stone, out-and-out, downright stupid!
8	Star Wars (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)) is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters (Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)) is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek (1966) can turn your brains to purée of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who (1963)! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or in a bunch to back it up!
9	It is very warming and pleasing to be thought to be in the company of Alfred Bester and Andre Norton and people like that. But I am conflicted. When you have been the voice of the loyal opposition for 40 years, and suddenly they turn on you and give you an award, it does in some ways make you think it's the end of the road. They only give you these awards when you're in sight of being canned as worm food. And I'm too cranky to go down without a fight.
10	Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
11	I don't take a piss without getting paid. People expect everything for nothing. But is Warner Brothers out there with an eye patch and a tin can on the street? They expect the writer to work for nothing and the problem [is] there are so many goddamn writers who have no idea they're supposed to get paid every time they do something. They do it for nothing. Are they any less a media whore than I? I think not. But it's just that no one has offered to buy their soul.
12	My role in life is to be a burr under the saddle. I didn't pick that for myself, it just happens that's the way I am. I wish I could be one of the really sweet guys. Nobody ever says a bad thing about people like Robert Bloch and that's because they are really decent, wonderful people. But for me nobody has a good word. That's because my allegiance is to art, to the work, I have no allegiance to magazines, producers, studios, networks or anything. The work is what counts.
13	[1985 interview in "Starlog"] In real life, we are what we do. I'm a writer. That's what I do. Everything I do in a day is in some way connected to it. If I get up and I have my Grape Nuts with raisins or I get laid or I shoot some pool or whatever it is that I do, I'm thinking about writing. It's all involved in the creative process. There is no system. The totality that is my life is how I write. When I get up and when I write is different every day, but every day, I write. People say, "Oh, you're so prolific." That's a remark made by assholes who don't write. What else would I be doing? If I were a plumber and I repaired 10,000 toilets, would they say, "Boy, you're a really prolific plumber!" I'm a writer, I have been for 30 years.
14	You are not entitled to your opinion, you are entitled to your informed opinion. If you are not informed on the subject, then your opinion counts for nothing.
15	The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen...and stupidity.
16	There are two things I found when I did The Merv Griffin Show (1962), the two things I said that got them really crazy, was that I didn't believe in God, and that I really believe there are some people who are better than others.
17	I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.
18	We're becoming sytematically driven into the ground. Bad taste becomes the order of the day, and people who object to it, schumcks like me, are suddenly spoilsports.
19	[in 1980] There are fewer and fewer people reading today. Clearly. Obviously. Statistics prove it, and historically what we're doing is we're programming ourselves right into an illiterate no-no land. It's going to be crazier and crazier in this country as the years go by and it shows up in every kind of way.
20	[on working in Hollywood] This town is filled with weasels and wormers and people who will stab you in the front if they can't reach your back.
21	For a brief time I was here; and for a brief time I mattered.
22	[his feelings about the term "science-fiction"] Call me a "science-fiction" writer and I'll come to your house and nail your pet's head to the table.



#	Trademark
1	Science Fiction themes, usually involving Cyborgs and machines
2	Outspoken abrasive personality



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