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Ib Jørgen Melchior (born September 17, 1917 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a producer, director, and screenwriter of low-budget U.S. science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures.
Melchior wrote and directed The Angry Red Planet (1959) and The Time Travelers (1964). His most high profile credit was as co-screenwriter (along with John C. Higgins) of Byron Haskin's critically acclaimed Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). He cowrote the screenplays for two U.S.-Danish coproductions, Reptilicus (1961) and Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962), and provided the English language script for Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965). He was given a "story" credit for Paul Bartel's cult favorite, Death Race 2000 (1975), produced by Roger Corman.
For television, he wrote "The Premonition" episode for the second season of the original The Outer Limits. He also claimed to be the creator of the Irwin Allen television series, Lost in Space, although he never received onscreen credit for this. In 1960, Melchior had created an outline for a series he called "Space Family Robinson", which later became a Gold Key comic book. Years later, New Line Cinema agreed to pay Melchior a $75,000 production bonus and $15,000 for services rendered during the production of the 1998 theatrical film that was loosely based on the television show. *
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