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Guerdon Saltonstall Trueblood (November 2, 1933 – March 3, 2021) was a Costa Rican-born American screenwriter, producer, director and actor.
Guerdon Trueblood | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 3, 1933 |
| Died | March 3, 2021 (aged 87) |
| Alma mater | George Washington University |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, producer, director and actor |
| Relatives | Billy Mitchell (grandfather) |
Trueblood was born in San Jose, Costa Rica to Edward Gatewood Trueblood (1905-1994) and Elizabeth (1906-1973), daughter of United States Army general and aviator Billy Mitchell. He had an elder sister, Felicity (1932-2021).[1][2][3] Edward Trueblood was a Princeton-educated diplomat assigned to Asuncion, Santiago, and Paris,[4][5] and would later serve as a UNESCO cultural relations officer in Uruguay and India, and as permanent U.S. representative to UNESCO stationed in Paris; he was also a senior editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and an associate professor of Latin American Studies in Phoenix, Arizona.[6] The Trueblood family had been resident in America since 1682, being descendants of John Trueblood, of Shoreditch, London, England.[7]
At age eight, his parents having divorced in 1940,[8] Trueblood went to live with his grandparents in Alexandria, Virginia. After serving in the United States Navy as a sonar technician, he attended George Washington University, majoring in speech and drama, then lived in Provence, France before moving to Hollywood in 1969.[9]
Trueblood co-wrote, with Richard Matheson, Jaws 3D (1983);[10] and Sole Survivor (1970), directed by Paul Stanley and starring Vince Edwards, Richard Basehart and William Shatner.[11] He directed the cinematography of Hollywood Meat Cleaver Massacre (1976),[12] where he also played the nuthouse doctor starring Christopher Lee.[13]
He created, produced and wrote Bravo Two (1977), directed by Ernest Pintoff.[14] He directed The Candy Snatchers (1973), written by Bryan Gindoff and produced by Marmot Productions.[15]
In 1964, Trueblood married Anne-Marie ("Anna") Vaughan Read, who predeceased him; they had two sons- visual effects artist[16] Guerdon jr, and Christopher- and a daughter, Alexandra.[17] Trueblood died on March 3, 2021, in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, at the age of 87.[18][19]
Films
- The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968)
- The Love War (1970)
- Sole Survivor (1970)
- Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1971) (also producer)
- Family Flight (1972)
- The Candy Snatchers (1973)
- The Savage Bees (1976)
- The Last Hard Men (1976) (also producer)
- Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
- Ants! (1977)
- Bravo Two (1977) (also producer)
- SST: Death Flight (1977)
- Meatcleaver Massacre (1977) as Nuthouse Doctor
- Terror Out of the Sky (1978)
- The Bastard (1978)
- Jaws 3-D (1983)
- Amazons (1984)
- Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife (1987) (also producer)
- The Chase (1991) (also producer)
- Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story (1993)
Television series
- Adam-12 (1969-1970)
- The Young Rebels (1970)
- The Young Lawyers (1970)
- Most Wanted (1976-1977)
- Barnaby Jones (1977)
- The Devlin Connection (1982)
- Automan (1984)
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