Willard Huyck

Writing

Willard Huyck

Born 1945-09-08 · Los Angeles, California, U.S

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Willard Huyck (born September 8, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his association with George Lucas. They met as students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and along with others, they became members of a renowned group of amateur filmmakers called The Dirty Dozen. Along with his wife Gloria Katz, Huyck has created the screenplays of films including American Graffiti and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, as well as collaborating with George Lucas on the original Star Wars. He has directed four films, the last being the notorious Howard the Duck (1986). He still writes screenplays and scripts following Howard The Duck including Mothers, Daughters and Lovers, Radioland Murders and the upcoming Secrets of a Hollywood Nurse. His last name is pronounced "Hike." Description above from the Wikipedia article Willard Huyck, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood poster
7.1

The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American cinema, an exalted celebration of creativity and experimentation; but also of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: a turbulent and dark tale of ambition, envy, betrayal, hatred and self-destruction.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

2003

Messiah of Evil poster
6.3

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.

Messiah of Evil

1975

Howard the Doc or: How I Learned to Start Quacking and Love the Bomb poster
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Fans of the legendary and infamous 1986 comic-book adaptation "Howard the Duck" talk about what it is that they enjoy about this film about a fowl from another planet and his misadventures in Cleve Land.

Howard the Doc or: How I Learned to Start Quacking and Love the Bomb

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7.0

The Making of feature for the George Lucas movie 'THX 1138'.

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

2004

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters poster
6.5

Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

2006

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy poster
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George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

2003

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope poster
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A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded by director Francis Ford Coppola.

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

2004

Teen Spirit: Teenagers and Hollywood poster
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Teen movies have had a great impact on the movie industry - especially in the 80s. This documentary takes a closer look at the genre's origins and the impact it has made up till today.

Teen Spirit: Teenagers and Hollywood

2009

The Making of 'American Graffiti' poster
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Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film American Graffiti (1973)

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

1998

Remembering Messiah of Evil poster
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Documentary on the making of "Messiah of Evil," the surreal horror cult classic written by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, directed by Willard Huyck. Includes interviews with Huyck and Katz as well as cinematographer Stephen M. Katz, editor Billy Weber, co-editor and actor Morgan Fisher.

Remembering Messiah of Evil

2009

Behind the camera

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom poster
7.3

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1984

Howard the Duck poster
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A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

Howard the Duck

1986

Howard the Duck poster
5.5

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

Howard the Duck

1986

American Graffiti poster
7.0

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

American Graffiti

1973

Best Defense poster
4.3

An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

Best Defense

1984

Best Defense poster
4.3

An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

Best Defense

1984

Radioland Murders poster
5.8

A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

Radioland Murders

1994

Lucky Lady poster
5.6

When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.

Lucky Lady

1975

Messiah of Evil poster
6.3

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.

Messiah of Evil

1975

Messiah of Evil poster
6.3

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.

Messiah of Evil

1975

Messiah of Evil poster
6.3

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.

Messiah of Evil

1975

French Postcards poster
5.1

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.

French Postcards

1979

French Postcards poster
5.1

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.

French Postcards

1979

The Devil's Eight poster
5.2

The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust a moonshine ring.

The Devil's Eight

1969

A Father's Homecoming poster
6.5

Long separated from his teenaged son and daughter, Michael Fields comes into contact with them in a most unexpected fashion. He is appointed headmaster of the exclusive New England private school where they both are enrolled.

A Father's Homecoming

1988

Down These Mean Streets poster
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A student film by Willard Huyck

Down These Mean Streets

1966

Down These Mean Streets poster
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A student film by Willard Huyck

Down These Mean Streets

1966