William Shakespeare
Playwright – Snow White - An Assembly Length Children's Play (1979) and other plays written at Southwestern College and San Diego State University
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Poll: Happy 70th Birthday J. Michael Straczynski
J. Michael Straczynski celebrates his seventieth birthday on July 17, 2024. Straczynski is commonly known as jms. He is an American television and film screenwriter, producer, director, and comic book writer. Straczynski is the founder of Studio JMS. He is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993) and its spinoff Crusade (1999), as well as the series Jeremiah (2002), and Sense8 (2015). Straczynski wrote the psychological drama film Changeling (2008) and was co-writer on the martial arts thriller Ninja Assassin (2009), horror film Underworld: Awakening (2012), and apocalyptic horror film World War Z (2013). His autobiography Becoming Superman debuted July 23, 2019.
Which of his career accomplishments do you find most intriguing?
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Seth MacFarlane in Family Guy (1999)
Radio Show Host – On-air entertainment reviewer for KSDO-FM (1970s); spent five years from 1987 to 1992 co-hosting the Hour 25 radio talk show on KPFK-FM Los Angeles with Larry DiTillio. -
Christopher Knight in The Brady Bunch (1969)
Journalist – While at San Diego State University, he wrote for the student newspaper, The Daily Aztec; Journalist for the Los Angeles Times as a special San Diego correspondent and worked for San Diego Magazine and The San Diego Reader, and wrote for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, the Los Angeles Reader, TV-Cable Week, and People magazine. -
Daniel Irias and Nima Soofi in The Author (2021)
Non-fiction Book Author – The Complete Book of Scriptwriting for Writer's Digest. Published in 1982, the book is often used as a text in introductory screenwriting courses, and is in its third edition; Becoming A Writer, Staying A Writer was published in 2021 by Benbella Books. -
The Novelist (2017)
Novelist – Author of three horror novels—Demon Night, Othersyde, and Tribulations—and nearly twenty short stories, many of which are collected in two compilations—Tales from the New Twilight Zone and Straczynski Unplugged; wrote the outlines for nine of the canonical Babylon 5 novels; Together We Will Go; and The Glass Box -
Aaron Thomas Ward in Internet Personality (2018)
Online Personality – Straczynski is a long-time participant in Usenet and other early computer networks, interacting with fans through various online forums since 1984; the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated; X (Twitter) and Instagram -
Changeling press conference
Speaker and Panelist at Science Fiction Conventions – Regular speaker and panelist at San Diego Comic Con and other science fiction conventions -
Radio Drama Revival (2013)
Radio Dramatist – Scriptwriter for the radio drama Alien Worlds and Earthlight -
Comic Book Confidential (1988)
Comic Book Author – Joe's Comics (adaptations of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek and Babylon 5); Marvel Comics (The Amazing Spider-Man, Supreme Power, Strange, Fantastic Four, and Thor); DC Comics (The Brave and the Bold, Superman: Earth One, Wonder Woman and Before Watchmen) -
John Erwin, Linda Gary, Alan Oppenheimer, and Lou Scheimer in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
Scriptwriter for Animation – "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" (1983); "She-Ra: Princess of Power" (1985); "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors" (1985); "The Real Ghostbusters" (1986) -
Bruce Boxleitner, Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs, Jerry Doyle, and Andreas Katsulas in Babylon 5 (1993)
Scriptwriter for Television – Wrote seven produced episodes of "Murder, She Wrote"; wrote 92 of the 110 episodes of "Babylon 5"; wrote 21 of 34 episodes of "Jeremiah"; co-wrote 23 of the 24 episodes of "Sense8" with the Wachowskis -
Angelina Jolie and Gattlin Griffith in Changeling (2008)
Screenwriter for Film – 'Changeling' (screenplay); 'Ninja Assassin' (2009) (screenplay); 'Thor' (2011) (story); 'Underworld: Awakening' (2012) (screenplay); and 'World War Z' (2013) (screen story) -
Babylon 5 (1993)
Show Runner and Producer – Executive producer for "Murder, She Wrote"; created and produced "Babylon 5" and "Crusade"; Creator and executive producer; for "Jeremiah" for 2 seasons; co-creator and co-executive producer for "Sense8" -
Ross Ford, Donna Martell, and Hayden Rorke in Project Moon Base (1953)
Hugo Award Winner – Best Dramatic Presentation "Babylon 5" episode: "The Coming of Shadows" (1996) and "Babylon 5" episode: "Severed Dreams" (1997) -
J. Michael Straczynski in Thor (2011)
Actor – Cameo as maintenance worker who turns off the power for Babylon 5 in final episode "Babylon 5" (1993): "Sleeping in Light" (1998); cameo as a townie who tries to pick up Thor's hammer, Mjölnir -
J. Michael Straczynski
Autobiographer – Author of the autobiography Becoming Superman (2019)
