Bill Warren (film historian and critic)
| Bill Warren | |
|---|---|
| Born |
William Bond Warren April 26, 1943 North Bend, Oregon, U.S. |
| Died | October 7, 2016 (aged 73) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Oregon |
| Occupation | Film historian, film critic |
| Spouse(s) | Beverly Warren (m. 1966) |
William Bond "Bill" Warren (April 26, 1943 – October 7, 2016) was an American film historian, critic, and one of the leading authorities on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.
Warren was born in North Bend, Oregon and grew up in Gardiner on the Umpqua River. He became interested in science fiction films after seeing The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), during their first boom period in the 1950s. Discovering Famous Monsters of Filmland with its first issues, he received regular acknowledgments and thanks as a contributor throughout the early years of the magazine, along with Don Glut, Eric Hoffman, and Mark Thomas McGee. After attending Reedsport High School, he graduated from the University of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon.
Warren and his wife Beverly moved to Los Angeles in 1966. As an assistant to science fiction agent, editor, and collector Forrest J Ackerman, Warren came into contact with major filmmakers-in-waiting, also inspired by Ackerman; he went on to develop personal friendships with several of them.
He and Beverly became very active in the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, as well as being involved in many of the Los Angeles-centric science fiction conventions held through the 1980s. He and friend Allan Rothstein were on the convention committee of L.A. Con II, the 42nd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). Taking advantage of their knowledge of who was attending and the convention's programming schedule, they wrote the murder mystery, "Fandom Is a Way of Death", set at the convention. Everyone named in the story, except the detective Johnny Atlantis, were real people, including all the victims and the murderer. This was sold as a convention publication, with the solution placed in a separate envelope. On the last day of L.A. Con II, the murderer was revealed and took a bow.
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