- Born
- Birth nameMichael Robert Gale
- Bob Gale is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter-producer-director, best known as co-creator, co-writer and co-producer of Retour vers le futur (1985) and its sequels. Gale was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Cinema from the University of Southern California in 1973. He has written over 30 screenplays; his other film credits include 1941 (1979), Crazy Day (1978), La Grosse Magouille (1980), Les pilleurs (1992) and Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002), the last which he directed. In addition to writing movies and occasionally television, Gale has written comic books including Spider-Man, Batman and the IDW Back to the Future title, thus proving to his father that he did not waste hours and hours reading comics in his youth. He has also served as an expert witness in over 25 plagiarism cases, even though this has occasionally required him to wear a suit and tie (oh, the horror!). When he's not in production, writing, shooting off his mouth or wasting time on the internet, he actually does take out the trash even when his wife doesn't ask. Well, sometimes he does...- IMDb mini biography by: Copernicus
- SpouseTina Gale
- Currently writing the Marvel comic book Daredevil.
- Bob often makes obscure references to his hometown in his scripts.
- He and Robert Zemeckis were known as "The Bobs" to Steven Spielberg and John Milius (and others) since they were always working and writing things together in and out of film school. Their writing structure as collaborators entailed both of them to be in the same room discussing things out loud and then one of them writing it down in longhand (as opposed to writing separately and then pooling it together afterward like some collaborators). Of all their scripts, La Grosse Magouille (1980) took the longest to write, from beginning to end, since they had to throw out an entire first draft.
- One of his favorite movies is Dr. Folamour ou : comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la bombe (1964).
- Frequently works with director Robert Zemeckis on projects such as A Field of Honor (1973), the Dossiers brûlants (1974) episode "Chopper", Crazy Day (1978), 1941 (1979), La Grosse Magouille (1980), Retour vers le futur (1985), the Histoires fantastiques (1985) episode "Go to the Head of the Class", Retour vers le futur 2 (1989), Retour vers le futur 3 (1990), Amazing Stories: Book II (1992), Les pilleurs (1992), and La reine des vampires (1996).
- [ on 'Back to the Future'] I don't know that part one was necessarily hugely cutting-edge. It was a very good melding of mechanical effects, where you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. So we're proud of that. This was way before we had computers or anything digital to do this stuff.. It holds up really well, and is probably the best time-machine film ever made.
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