Ed Wood
Edward Davis Wood Jr.( October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and author.
In the 1950s, Wood directed several low- budget science fiction, crime and horror films, notably" Glen or Glenda"( 1953)," Jail Bait"( 1954)," Bride of the Monster"( 1955)," Plan 9 from Outer Space"( 1959)," Night of the Ghouls"( 1959) and" The Sinister Urge"( 1960).
In the 1960s and 1970s, he moved towards sexploitation and pornographic films, and wrote over 80 pulp crime, horror and sex novels.
Notable for their campy aesthetics, technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, ill- fitting stock footage, eccentric casts, idiosyncratic stories, and non sequitur dialogue, Wood's films remained largely obscure until he was posthumously awarded a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Director of All Time in 1980, renewing public interest in his life and work.
Following the publication of Rudolph Grey's 1992 oral biography" Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr.", a biopic of his life," Ed Wood"( 1994), was directed by Tim Burton.
Starring Johnny Depp as Wood, the film received two Academy Awards.
Ivan Abramson
Ivan Abramson (1869 – September 15, 1934) was a director of American silent films active in the 1910s and 1920s.
Abramson emigrated to the United States from Russia in the 1880s and soon became involved in the Jewish newspaper field.
In 1905, he founded an opera company.
In 1914, he founded Ivan Film Productions to produce silent films, with the "Sins of the Parents" as his first release.
In 1917, after success with pictures including "One Law for Both" and "Enlighten Thy Daughter", Abramson partnered with William Randolph Hearst to form the Graphic Film Corporation.
Abramson's films feature melodramas with titillating titles such as "Forbidden Fruit" (1915) and "A Child for Sale" (1920), and sexual hygiene films such as "The Sex Lure" (1916) and "Enlighten Thy Daughter" (1917).
Abramson's alliance ended with the 1919 release of "The Echo of Youth".
In 1923, Abramson and Sidney M. Goldin directed "East and West", filmed in Austria and starring Molly Picon, and which had English and Yiddish subtitles.
Abramson died on September 15, 1934 in New York at Mount Sinai Hospital, survived by his wife Liza Einhorn.
Glen or Glenda
Glen or Glenda is a 1953 American drama film written, directed by and starring Ed Wood( credited in his starring role as" Daniel Davis"), and featuring Bela Lugosi and Wood's then- girlfriend Dolores Fuller.
It was produced by George Weiss who also made the exploitation film" Test Tube Babies" that same year.
The film is a docudrama about cross-dressing and transsexuality, and is semi-autobiographical in nature.
Wood himself was a cross-dresser, and the film is a plea for tolerance.
It is widely considered one of the worst films ever made.
However, it has become a cult film due to its low- budget production values and idiosyncratic style.
Timothy Farrell
Timothy Farrell( June 26, 1922 – May 9, 1989) was an American film actor, best known for his roles in the Ed Wood films such as" Jail BaitThe Violent Years" and" Glen or Glenda".
He also worked for the County Marshal of Los Angeles, California.
Ashes of Love
Ashes of Love is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Ivan Abramson and starring James K. Hackett and Effie Shannon.
It was distributed on the State's Rights system.
Michael Findlay
Michael Findlay
( August 27, 1937 – May 16, 1977) was an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter.
Along with his wife Roberta, Findlay created numerous low- budget Z movies in the 1960s and 1970s.
They have been described as" the most notorious filmmakers in the annals of sexploitation".
In the mid- to- late 1960s, Findlay was prominent among a small group of underground New York filmmakers( including Joseph W. Sarno, Joseph P. Mawra, and Lou Campa) that produced exploitation" roughies"( early slasher films which combined conventional horror or thriller stories with sadomasochistic sex scenes) for the grindhouse market.
Sometimes he would direct under the alias Julian Marsh and act in his own films billed as Robert West.
His wife Roberta( a.k.a. Anna Riva) was the cinematographer, co-writer, and supporting actress for many of their films together.
They also employed the same actors repeatedly, most notably Uta Erickson, and Marie Brent, a.k.a.
Janet Banzet.
The Findlays were friends with George Weiss, producer of Ed Wood's" Glen or Glenda" and a series of fetishistic" Olga" films(" Olga's House of ShameOlga's Girls", et al.).
In 1964 Weiss encouraged them to make films in this new subgenre of violent sexploitation.
Dolores Fuller
Dolores Agnes Fuller( née Eble; March 10, 1923 – May 9, 2011) was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one- time girlfriend of the low- budget film director Ed Wood.
She played the protagonist's girlfriend in" Glen or Glenda", co-starred in Wood's" Jail Bait", and had a minor role in his" Bride of the Monster".
Later, Elvis Presley recorded a number of her songs written for his films.
Chen Yuqi
Chen Yuqi( born 29 July 1992), also known as Yukee Chen, is a Chinese actress.
She is known for her supporting roles in" The Princess Weiyoung" and" Ashes of Love" and her lead role as Zhao Min in" Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre".
William C. Thompson (cinematographer)
William C. Thompson (30 March 1889 in Bound Brook, New Jersey – 22 October 1963 in Los Angeles) was an American cinematographer.
He started his career in the 1910s and is best remembered today as the cinematographer of many of the films of Ed Wood, including "Glen or Glenda" (1953) and "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959).
Other films he worked on include "Maniac" (1934), "Journey to Freedom" (1957), and "The Astounding She-Monster" (1957).
Noted for having only one eye.[Citation needed--I think he was just colorblind.]
Chained Girls
Chained Girls is a 1965 film.
It is an example of the exploitation film.
This" exposé" claims to reveal the shocking truth about lesbianism in today's society with supposed hidden camera footage.
This was a way of getting round censorship, to include what was by the standards of the time fairly explicit material.
It includes some bizarre scenes, including what purports to be a lesbian initiation, with a woman gang- raped by a group of" dykes" led by a" bull dyke", and two" dykes" fighting each other( apparently to the death) over the same" femme" lesbian.
Some have detected an irony that the background music is by Tchaikovsky, who was gay.
It was produced by George Weiss( best known for" Glen or Glenda"), and written directed by Joseph P. Mawra.
It has been released on DVD along with" Daughters of Lesbos".

Question: Do both films, Glen Or Glenda and Ashes Of Love, have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: yes