Guerdon Trueblood(1933-2021)
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Guerdon Trueblood is the grandson of General Billy Mitchell, who's the
founding father of the U.S. Air Force. Trueblood attended George
Wastington University in Virginia. He achieved his greatest success as
a solid and dependable television writer. Trueblood has written scripts
for such TV shows as "The Young Rebels," "Adam-12," "The Young
Lawyers," "The Streets of San Francisco," and "Automan." In addition,
Trueblood wrote the screenplays for the excellent psycho Vietnam
veterans exploitation winner "Welcome Home, Soldier Boys" and the
gritty Western "The Last Hard Men;" Trueblood also was an associate
producer of the latter movie. Moreover, Trueblood penned the scripts
for the 70s made-for-TV killer animal fright features "The Savage
Bees," "It Happened at Lakewood Manor," "Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo,"
and "Terror Out of the Sky." He also supplied the story for "Jaws 3-D."
Trueblood made a rare foray into theatrical film directing with the
terrifically rough and sleazy 70s grindhouse crime cult classic "The
Candy Snatchers." Trueblood's college friend Vincent Martorano portrays
a dim-witted kidnapper in the picture and his son Christopher appears
as a little autistic boy. Trueblood's other son Guerdon is a highly
successful digital effects artist/compositor.
