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Ira H. Gallen
is an authority on television, film, computer and theater
criticism, particularly as they relate to toys, popular culture,
and licensed products, collectibles, videos, books, electronic
games and computer accessories.
He has appeared
regularly on such shows as MSNBC, ABC WORLD NEWS NOW, CNN/FN,
ACCESS HOLLYWOOD and FOX on Entertainment, CNN SHOW BIZ TODAY,
GOOD DAY NEW YORK, E-ENTERTAINMENT, NIGHTLINE, CROOK & CHASE,
ACCESS HOLLYWOOD,FOX ON ENTERTAINMENT and EXTRA among others.
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Ira
and Action Director
Chuck Bail
on the set of
Gumball Rally
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It's been
the success of Ira's local cable show Biograph Days/Biograph
Nights, now celebrating its 20th year that resulted in major
network and cable channels using him to do on-camera reporting
and consulting for over a decade now.
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Ira
with Cinematographer
Owen Rozman
on the set of
Three Days of the Condor
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Over 50 noted
film directors and television personalities have appeared
on BIOGRAPH DAYS/BIOGRAPH NIGHTS discussing their careers,
including Sidney Pollack, Dennis Hopper, Lee Marvin, Wolfgang
Peterson, Paul Schrader, John Carpenter, Marshall Brickman,
Bill Forsyth, Frank Zappa, Sam Raimi, David Cronenberg, Jason
Miller, David Puttnam, Gillian Armstrong, Susan Seidelman,
Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy, Fred Schepisi, Ralph Bakshi, Anne
Francis, Andrei Konchalovsky, James Tobak, Franco Zeffirelli,
Jeremy Irons, Martha Coolidge, John Avildsen, Daniel Stern,
Kevin Bacon, Tony Bill, Mark Rydell, Robert Preston, Scott
B. and Beth B., Jeremy Paul Kagan, William Richert, and Jim
Henson.
The program
has highlighted rare television shows and commercials as well
as one-of-a-kind films from the Golden Age of Hollywood, all
housed at his Video Resources Archive where the shows are
taped.
Ira is a
renowned film and television historian working and consulting
with many scholars and writers worldwide. In the last three
years alone, Ira has donated thousands of hours of rare TV
shows and commercials he has uncovered from the Golden Age
of Television to the Museum of Television and Radio in New
York.
Ira H. Gallen
is a Directors' Guild of America member, and has directed
first and second units on various European television and
feature film productions, music videos and commercials, including
work for the Playboy Clubs and television network.
Ira started
out in the film business, working his way up from a production
assistant to assistant director, and to second unit director
on such films as SHAFT'S BIG SCORE, THE SUPERCOPS, DEATH WISH,
HARRY & TONTO, ROCKY 2, MARATHON MAN, GUMBALL RALLY, THREE
DAYS OF THE CONDOR, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SPIDERMAN, and the
New York locations for the TV show TAXI, where you can spot
Ira in some of the shots outside the dressed up cab company
in Greenwich Villiage.
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Gallen has
edited over 2500 Karaoke videos, using clips from his archives
and shooting live action. On Japanese television, his fast-paced
editing style on MYSTERY NIGHT MONTAGE had the fans and press
calling him the "Montage Man" of video editing.
Ira's been
called the "Baby boomer Guru" by the Daily News critic The
Phantom of the Movies
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Hulk
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Leonard Maltin
on Entertainment Tonight says Ira's company "is one-stop shopping
for every nostalgia image you every wanted to watch."
Gallen is
developing a script based on a classic 1940s radio show that
became a hit television show in the 1950's called CAPTAIN
MIDNIGHT, a cross between Top Gun and Raiders of the Lost
Ark , his first novel "ARE THERE ANY GOOD WOMEN LEFT
IN NEW YORK CITY" and a interactive Anthology series
called "COLUMBUS AVE", which he will co-write and
direct.
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