Nat Segaloff - Mr. Huston/ Mr. North: Life, Death, and Making John Hustons Last Film

Nat Segaloff always wanted to write and produce, but it took him several careers before he learned how to get paid for it. He was a journalist for The Boston Herald covering the motion picture business, but has also at various times been a studio publicist (Fox, UA, Columbia), college teacher (Boston University, Boston College), on-air TV presenter (Group W), entertainment critic (CBS radio) and author (twelve books including Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin and, as co-author, Love Stories: Hollywoods Most Romantic Movies). He has contributed career monographs on screenwriters Stirling Silliphant, Walon Green, Paul Mazursky, and John Milius to the University of California Press acclaimed Backstory series. His writing has appeared in such varied periodicals as Film Comment, Written By, International Documentary, Animation Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Time Out (US), MacWorld, and American Movie Classics Magazine. He was also senior reviewer for AudiobookCafe.com.

His The Everything Etiquette Book, The Everything Trivia Book, and The Everything Tall Tales, Legends & Outrageous Lies Book, went into multiple printings for Adams Media Corp. Other books include Arthur Penn: American Director, Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors, and Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God (the latter two for BearManor Media).

As a TV writer-producer, Segaloff helped perfect the format and created episodes for A&Es flagship Biography series. His distinctive episodes include John Belushi: Funny You Should Ask; Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop; Larry King: Talk of Fame; Darryl F. Zanuck: Twentieth Century-Filmmaker and Stan Lee: The ComiX-MAN! He has written and co-produced the Rock n Roll Moments music documentaries for The Learning Channel/Malcolm Leo Productions, and has written and/or produced programming for New World, Disney, Turner, and USA Networks. He is co-creator/co-producer of Judgment Day with Grosso-Jacobson Communications Corp. for HBO.

His extraterrestrial endeavors include the cheeky sequel to the Orson Welles Invasion From Mars radio hoax, When Welles Collide, which featured a Star Trek cast. It was produced by L.A. Theatre Works and has become a Halloween tradition on National Public Radio. In 1996 he formed the multi-media production company Alien Voices with actors Leonard Nimoy and actor John de Lancie. Segaloff produced five best-selling, fully dramatized audio plays for Simon & Schuster: The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Lost World, The Invisible Man, and The First Men in the Moon, all of which feature Star Trek casts. Additionally, his teleplay for The First Men in the Moon was the first-ever TV/Internet simulcast and was presented live by The Sci-Fi Channel. He has also written narrative concerts for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, celebrity events, is a script consultant, and was a contributing writer to Moving Pictures magazine.

Nat is the co-author with Arnie Reisman and Daniel M. Kimmel of The Waldorf Conference, a comedy-drama about the secret 1947 meeting of studio moguls that began the Hollywood Blacklist. Its all-star world premiere was at L.A. Theatre Works and was acquired for production by Warner Bros. He produced a subsequent production to benefit the Hollywood ACLU and the Writers Guild Foundation. Nat has also produced such other celebrity events as a public reading of censored books and a recreation of the classic anti-HUAC broadcast, Hollywood Fights Back called Hollywood Fights BackAgain. He was staff producer for The Africa Channel, wrote and co-directed with Callard Harris the dramatic short, Devils Run, and has been a frequent special guest panelist on the NPR word/game show Says You!

He is currently writing the biography of award-winning writer Harlan Ellison.

Mr. Huston/Mr. North: Life, Death, and Making John Hustons Last Film

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