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Irving Block was born on 2 December 1910 in New York, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Forbidden Planet (1956), Kronos (1957) and War of the Satellites (1958). He was married to Gilda Block. He died on 3 May 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Visual Effects, Writer, Special Effects
- December 2, 1910
- Irving Block
- May 3, 1986
Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block.
With Irving Block he wrote the story for the screenplay for the movie Forbidden Planet, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, but during the Second Red Scare of the 1950s he was blacklisted from the movie industry.
Irving Block and Allen Adler, and the second by Cyril Hume—is modelled after a classic work of dramatic literature: William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” the tale of a shipwreck that maroons a party of Italian aristocrats on an island inhabited by a sorcerer, his daughter, and his enchanted servants. Shakespeare’s
Kronos (a.k.a. Kronos, Destroyer of the Universe or Kronos, Ravager of Planets) is a 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film from Regal Films, a division of 20th Century-Fox. It was produced by Irving Block, Louis DeWitt, Kurt Neumann, and Jack Rabin, directed by Kurt Neumann, and stars Jeff Morrow and Barbara Lawrence.
Irving Block was a quadruple-threat artist in film -- as a production designer, special effects designer, producer, and writer -- but that was only one facet of a three-tiered career he enjoyed from the 1930s through the 1980s, as an artist, filmmaker, and teacher.
Irving Block is known as an Special Effects, Story, Producer, Production Design, Matte Painter, Associate Producer, Visual Effects, and Art Direction. Some of his work includes The Giant Behemoth, The Atomic Submarine, Kronos, The Invisible Boy, War of the Satellites, and Captive Women.
