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Richard Christian Matheson

Writer, Actor, Producer, Additional Credits
Born October 14, 1953 (71 years)
Richard Christian Matheson is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of over 100 short stories of psychological horror and magic realism which are gathered in over 150 major anthologies and in his critically hailed hardcover short story collections Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks, Amazon #1 bestseller Dystopia and Zoopraxis. He is the author of the suspense novel Created By and Hollywood novella of magic realism The Ritual of Illusion, and was the editor of the commemorative book Stephen King's Battleground Matheson also adapted the short story which was made into an iconic episode of the TNT series Nightmares and Dreamscapes and won two Emmys.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Masters of Horror
  • Hunter
Known For
  • Masters of Horror
  • Three O'Clock High
  • The A-Team
  • Loose Cannons
  • Big Driver
  • The Incredible Hulk
  • Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
  • Knight Rider
  • It Waits
  • Sole Survivor
  • Happy Face Killer
  • Nightmare Cinema
  • Full Eclipse
  • It Takes Two
  • Chemistry
  • Amazing Stories (1985)
  • Splatter
  • Hardcastle and McCormick
  • The Torkelsons
  • Hunter
  • Paradise
  • Teech

Filmography

2018
Nightmare Cinema · as Screenplay
2011
Chemistry (TV Series)
2009
Splatter (TV Series)
2009
2006
2005
Dance of the Dead · as Screenplay
2005
2005
2004
2000
Sole Survivor · as Screenplay
1993
1991
Teech (TV Series)
1990
1989
Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) · as Screenplay
1988
1987
1985
1984
Hunter (TV Series)
1983
1983
The A-Team (TV Series)
1982
Knight Rider (TV Series)
1982
1980
Enos (TV Series)
1977

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