Writing

Mayo Simon

Born 1928-05-02 · Illinois, USA

Mayo Simon is an American screenwriter, author and playwright. He is the father of the author Francesca Simon and biologist-X-Files science advisor Anne Simon.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Futureworld poster
5.9

Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.

Futureworld

1976

Marooned poster
6.0

After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.

Marooned

1969

Phase IV poster
6.3

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

Phase IV

1974

I Could Go on Singing poster
6.1

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.

I Could Go on Singing

1963

Why Man Creates poster
6.7

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system.

Why Man Creates

1968

Man from Atlantis poster
8.0

A water-breathing human, the sole survivor of an underwater civilization called Atlantis, emerges from the ocean and has to learn to deal with the air-breathers on the surface.

Man from Atlantis

1977

A City Decides poster
6.5

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 1956.

A City Decides

1956