Rudolph Grey is a musician and the biographer of filmmaker Ed Wood.[1]
As an electric guitarist, Grey has recorded and performed with Mars,[2] under his own name, as well as leading various ad hoc ensembles called The Blue Humans.[3] His music draws on no wave and free jazz.
Grey is also a motion picture historian and has written Nightmare of Ecstasy (1992), a biography of Ed Wood, the director of notoriously awful cult films. Tim Burton's film Ed Wood was based on Grey's book.
In 2001, Grey rediscovered a copy of Ed Wood's final feature-length film, Necromania, which had been presumed to be lost, in a Los Angeles warehouse.[4]
In 2011, Grey produced a one-hour documentary called Dad Made Dirty Movies, about the life and career of 1960s porn film producer Stephen Apostolof, detailing his co-productions with filmmaker Ed Wood.[5]
- ^ Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., 1992, Feral House, ISBN 978-0-922915-04-0; reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8
- ^ Marc Masters, (2007) No Wave London, Black Dog Publishing, pp. 42-46
- ^ The Blue Humans bio in Allmusic.com
- ^ New Yorker: Weird Love
- ^ [1], Elliott, Tim (2011-09-09). "Review: Dad Made Dirty Movies. smh.com.au.