Director

Fred Dekker

Writing

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 1All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 44056

IMDb ID: nm0215269

Known for: Writing

Born: April 9, 1959

Age: 66

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1976 - 2018

Years active: 43

Average TMDB rating: 6.39

Wikidata: Q1452257

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Biography

Fred Dekker (born April 9, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film best known for his cult classic horror comedy films Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad (written with Shane Black). He contributed the story ideas for both House (1986) and Ricochet (1991), and also directed and co-wrote RoboCop 3 with Frank Miller. One of his earliest movies was a short film he made in college titled Starcruisers directed in the early 1980s. Night of the Creeps was released on DVD in 2009. In a June 20, 2005 interview, Dekker said he was currently working on a, "scary, end-of-the-world thriller." Description above from the Wikipedia article about Fred Dekker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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