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Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp as the cross-dressing cult movie maker Edward D. Wood Jr. The film, shot in black and white, was made in 1994 and based in large part on Rudolph Grey's biography Nightmare of Ecstasy. The film focuses on the period in Ed's life when he made his best-known films, and also his relationship with Bela Lugosi (Oscar winner Martin Landau), the down-on-his luck actor who had starred as Dracula in the film of the same name. Though a box office failure at the time of its release, it was critically hailed and has subsequently been voted onto IMDB's "top 250" by its users.

Characters, cast and crew

Ed Wood (Johnny Depp
)
Bela Lugosi
(Martin Landau
)
Dolores Fuller
(Sarah Jessica Parker
)
Bunny Breckinridge
(Bill Murray
)
Kathy O'Hara (Patricia Arquette
)
Criswell - (Jeffrey Jones
)
Vampira - (Lisa Marie
)
Tor Johnson
- (George "The Animal" Steele)
Loretta King - (Juliet Landau
)

The film includes cameo appearances from actors who had worked with Wood on Plan 9 From Outer Space. Conrad Brooks (who played one of the comic policemen) appears as a bartender, and Gregory Walcott (who played the hero) appears as one of the potential financiers of Bride of the Monster. In addition, Paul Marco, the other comic policeman, can be spotted in the background. The two men are played by Max Casella and Brett Hinkley.

Juliet Landau, who plays Loretta King, is Martin Landau's daughter.

This is the only Tim Burton film to date that does not have a music score by Danny Elfman; the soundtrack for Ed Wood was by Howard Shore.

Factual inaccuracies

Although the film is avowedly stylized and heightened for comic effect, most of the events it depicts are fairly close to reality, despite their oddness. Still, there are some departures from truth.

In Burton's film, Dolores Fuller
learns of Wood's transvestitism after reading the screenplay for Glen or Glenda. In reality, she remained unaware until the film was finished.
In the film, the famous footage of Lugosi picking a flower takes place outside Lugosi's house. In reality, the house belonged to Tor Johnson
.
In the movie, Lugosi's funeral is attended only by Ed Wood and his acolytes. In reality, Lugosi's funeral was well-attended by his family and numerous fellow film stars, including Boris Karloff
.
Lugosi is a bachelor throughout the film. In reality, Bela married his fifth wife, Hope Littinger, around the time of Bride of the Monster
.
Burton has Tor Johnson being new to the idea of movies when Ed "discovers" him. In fact, Tor had actually been acting in films since 1934, and his work with Wood came only at the very end of a long acting career.
Tor Johnson is seen at the premiere of Plan 9 with two young children who are as plump as he is. In reality, Johnson's children were grown up by that time.
In reality, the Baptists who sponsored the film were not opposed to the title Graverobbers From Outer Space. The exact circumstances are unknown, but the film, which took three years to release, was distributed as Plan 9 From Outer Space without any acknowledgement of the congregation. It is possible that Wood, or his distributor, were trying to avoid paying royalties. (See The Haunted World Of Edward D. Wood, Jr. for more details.)
Bunny Breckinridge did not meet Ed Wood until the filming of Plan 9, through their mutual friend Paul Marco
.
In order to give the film a somewhat uplifting ending, the script takes its most serious licenses at the end. Wood never met Orson Welles
, nor did Plan 9 have such a glamorous premiere.

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Actors - Ed Wood

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