Bob Gale

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Bob Gale
Born	May 21 1951 (age Template:Age) University City, Missouri, USA
Occupation	Writer

Michael Robert "Bob" Gale (May 25, 1951, University City, Missouri, United States), is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay for Back to the Future with writing partner Robert Zemeckis, and also helped write the screenplays for the film's two sequels. Gale also coproduced all three films. He is married and although he considers himself a St. Louisan at heart, he currently lives in the Los Angeles area.

As a teen, he created his own comic books using spirit duplication, and also co-founded a popular comic book club in St. Louis. Later, he made his own amateur three-film series with his brother Charles Gale, parodies of the Republic Pictures Commando Cody serials (using the character name "Commando Cus"), the last two of which also in collaboration with his friend the late Richard Rosenberg. (Rosenberg had taken over the series with the third, Commando Cus vs. Kung Fu Killers ((1973)), in which Gale made a cameo appearance as the title character without his face-covering helmet, and was working on a fourth, The 100% All-Beef Doom, at the time of his death.) A reference to these was included in the Back to the Future films, as "Cusco Industries", the employer of the future Marty McFly. While in university he wrote fanzine reviews for classmate Mike Glyer's first fanzine.

Gale received a B.A. in Cinema from the University of Southern California in 1973, meeting classmate Zemeckis while both were undergrads. As scriptwriters, the two have collaborated on films including 1941, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Used Cars, and Trespass, the last set in East St. Louis, Illinois near Gale's home town. In 2002, Gale debuted as a feature-film director with Interstate 60. He had previously directed, as well as written, the 45-minute theatrical release Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie

Gale has also written for comics, including Marvel Comics' Daredevil and DC Comics' Batman, and wrote the novelization for his movie 1941.

Gale has a small unseen role in Back to the Future Part III as the newspaper editor M. R. Gale.^[1]