Gloria Katz

Writer

October 25, 1942 (76 years)

† November 25, 2018

Los Angeles, U.S.A

Biography

Gloria Katz (October 25, 1942 - November 25, 2018) was an American screenwriter and film producer, best known for her association with George Lucas. Along with her husband Willard Huyck, Katz created the screenplays of films including American Graffiti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Howard the Duck.

Filmography

7.3

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

5.4

Howard the Duck

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

7.0

American Graffiti

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

4.3

Best Defense

An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

5.5

Lucky Lady

When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.

5.2

More American Graffiti

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

5.9

Radioland Murders

A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

6.3

Messiah of Evil

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.

5.1

French Postcards

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.

8.0

Mothers, Daughters and Lovers

A single mother struggles to raise two teenage daughters in a small town in America.

6.5

A Father's Homecoming

Long separated from his teenaged son and daughter, Michael Fields comes into contact with them in a most unexpected fashion. He is appointed headmaster of the exclusive New England private school where they both are enrolled.

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