Forrest J Ackerman
Actor, Author
1916 – 2008
Who was Forrest J Ackerman?
Forrest J Ackerman was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan. He was, for over seven decades, one of science fiction's staunchest spokesmen and promoters.
Ackerman was a Los Angeles, California-based magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom, a leading expert on science fiction and fantasy films, and possibly the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia. He was the editor and principal writer of the American magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, as well as an actor and producer from the 1950s into the 1980s, and appears in two documentaries related to this period in popular culture: writer and filmmaker Jason V Brock's The Ackermonster Chronicles!, a 2012 documentary about Ackerman, and Charles Beaumont: The Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man, about the late author Charles Beaumont, a former client of The Ackerman Agency.
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- Born
- Nov 24, 1916
Los Angeles - Also known as
- 4SJ
- Forry
- 4E Ackerman
- Coil Kepac
- Wilfred Owen Morley
- F. Ackerman
- Weaver Wright
- Hubert George Wells
- Forrest James Ackerman
- Forry Ackerman
- Parents
- Spouses
- Wendayne Wahrman
( - 1990)
- Wendayne Wahrman
- Religion
- Atheism
- Judaism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 4, 2008
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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