Cast & creator
Richard Matheson
Best known for Family Guy, Star Trek, The Outer Limits
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 Poe stories for Roger Corman and American International Pictures – House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror and The Raven. He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay directed by Steven Spielberg for the television film Duel that year. In addition, to I Am Legend and Duel, nine more of his novels and short stories have been adapted as motion pictures: The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man), Hell House (filmed as The Legend of Hell House), What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes, Steel (filmed as Real Steel), and Button, Button (filmed as The Box). The movie Cold Sweat was based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, and Les seins de glace ("Icy Breasts") was based on his novel Someone is Bleeding. Both Steel and Button, Button had previously been episodes of The Twilight Zone. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Matheson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Richard Burton Matheson, Logan Swanson, Richard Matheson Sr.
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Across film & television
Filmography (97)
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Family Guy
Short Story
1999
Star Trek
Writer
1966
The Outer Limits
Writer
1995
Have Gun, Will Travel
Writer
1957
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Writer
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Novel
1962
The Twilight Zone
Writer
1959Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Writer
1963
The Twilight Zone
Writer
1985
Combat!
Writer
1962
Cheyenne
Writer
1955
Real Steel
Short Story
2011
Lawman
Writer
1958
The Godfather Part II
Senator #3 (uncredited)
1974
Night Gallery
Writer
1970
Amazing Stories
Writer
1985
Thriller
Writer
1960
Masters of Horror
Writer
2005
I Am Legend
Novel
2007
Ghost Story
Writer
1972Ghost Story
Creator
1972
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Writer
1966
What Dreams May Come
Novel
1998
Stir of Echoes
Novel
1999
Jaws 3-D
Screenplay
1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Screenplay
1983Twilight Zone: The Movie
Story
1983
Duel
Screenplay
1971Duel
Story
1971
The Shrinking Man
Novel
2025
The Martian Chronicles
Writer
1980
Somewhere in Time
Astonished Man [1912]
1980Somewhere in Time
Novel
1980Somewhere in Time
Screenplay
1980
The Box
Original Story
2009
The Omega Man
Novel
1971
The Raven
Screenplay
1963
Late Night Horror
Short Story
1968
The Night Stalker
Teleplay
1972
The Legend of Hell House
Novel
1973The Legend of Hell House
Screenplay
1973
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Novel
1957The Incredible Shrinking Man
Screenplay
1957
Cold Sweat
Novel
1970
The Devil Rides Out
Screenplay
1968
The Pit and the Pendulum
Screenplay
1961
The Last Man on Earth
Novel
1964The Last Man on Earth
Screenplay
1964
Loose Cannons
Writer
1990
Icy Breasts
Novel
1974
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Novel
1981I Am Legend 2
Characters
Master of the World
Screenplay
1961
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Teleplay
1994
Tales of Terror
Screenplay
1962
Trilogy of Terror II
Screenplay
1996Trilogy of Terror II
Short Story
1996
Night of the Eagle
Writer
1962
The Comedy of Terrors
Screenplay
1964The Comedy of Terrors
Novel
1964The Comedy of Terrors
Associate Producer
1964
Fanatic
Screenplay
1965
Dracula
Writer
1974
House of Usher
Writer
1960
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
Writer
1990
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Writer
2019
The Night Strangler
Writer
1973
De Sade
Screenplay
1969
Dance of the Dead
Short Story
2005
The Dreamer of Oz
Story
1990The Dreamer of Oz
Screenplay
1990
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Self
2005
Trilogy of Terror
Screenplay
1975Trilogy of Terror
Story
1975
I Am Omega
Novel
2007
Dead of Night
Writer
1977Dead of Night
Original Story
1977
The Stranger Within
Short Story
1974The Stranger Within
Teleplay
1974
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
Self
2000
Dying Room Only
Teleplay
1973Dying Room Only
Short Story
1973
The Beat Generation
Writer
1959
Scream of the Wolf
Teleplay
1974
Soy leyenda
Novel
1967
The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver
Writer
1977The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver
Associate Producer
1977
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
Self
2010
The Morning After
Teleplay
1974
My Ambition
Short Story
2006
The Life After Death Project
Self
2013
No Such Thing as a Vampire
Writer
2026
The Young Warriors
Writer
1967
Now Is Tomorrow
Writer
1958Prey
Short Story
1983The AckerMonster Chronicles!
De 6 à 8
Original Story
2023