Ernie Fosselius

Ernie Fosselius
Fosselius in 2010
Born	1946 (age 70–71) San Francisco, California, United States
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, film producer, animator, Foley editor
Years active	1970s–present

Ernie Fosselius (born 1946) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his satirical spoofs of popular films, including the Star Wars parody Hardware Wars.

Fosselius' film career began in the early 1970s when he co-created 20 original animated films for Sesame Street.

Fosselius is known for his satirical short films. The first appeared in 1976 in Mother's Little Network, a Pythonesque sketch comedy show for WGBH-TV in Boston, was The Hindenburger, in which a flying Big Mac burst into flames over New Jersey while a radio announcer (voiced by Fosselius) emotionally sobbed: "Oh, the humanity, Oh, the cheese!"

Porklips Now was a send-up of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now which starred Billy Gray of TV's Father Knows Best.

Fosselius was hired by Universal Studios to develop comedy screenplays. After working for many months on a script entitled Two Guys from Space, the studio pulled the plug on the project and offered him the directing job on Pee-wee's Big Adventure as a consolation. Fosselius passed on it and went back to Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, where he made his living as a sound effects and foley editor on many feature films including Ed Wood, Serial Mom, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Amadeus.

Fosselius continued to write screenplays (11 scripts that never went into production, including the Zippy the Pinhead movie) and work in the movie business as a director of "industrial" shorts, a special effects fabricator (including for RoboCop 2), an actor, sound editor, and voice actor.

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