Biografía

14 de octubre de 1912 · New Haven, Connecticut, Estados Unidos

17 de marzo de 1992 · Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, Estados Unidos (una arteriosclerosis)

Jack Arnold Waks

As a director, he said he liked to think of the movie screen as a traditional proscenium-arch stage into which people and objects could abruptly enter as if coming in from the wings. He often used this technique for shock effect, as in Llegaron de otro mundo (1953) when Russell Johnson's hand suddenly reaches in from the side of the screen to touch a startled Barbara Rush on the shoulder.

He was the director of The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special (1967) special on CBS; it won an Emmy for outstanding variety special of 1967.

He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: El hombre increíble (1957).

Some time after El mundo perdido (1960) came out, Universal Pictures planned to remake the Arthur Conan Doyle classic in the U. K. with Arnold directing. It was a project he wanted badly to do, but according to friend and former star John Agar, the studio canceled the project because of Arnold's health issues.

Father of two daughters: Susan Arnold Jacobson (casting director Susan Arnold) and Kathy Arnold.

I love science fiction. As a youngster, I used to buy all the pulp magazines. I loved them. I was very pleased when I was assigned to direct my first SF film because I was still an avid fan. The more I did this type of film the better I liked it, because the studio left me alone. Fortunately, no one at that time at the studio was an expert at directing SF films, so I claimed to be one. I wasn't, of course, but the studio didn't know that. So they never argued with me.

The Man from Bitter Ridge (1955) - $6,000