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Ib Jørgen Melchior (born September 17, 1917) is a novelist, short story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter of low-budget American science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Melchior's novels include Code Name: Grand Guignol, Eva, The Haigerloch Project, The Marcus Device, Order of Battle: Hitler's Werewolves, Sleeper Agent, The Tombstone Cipher and The Watchdogs of Abaddon.

His non-fiction includes the books Quest: Searching for Germany's Nazi Past (with co-author Frank Brandenburg) and Lauritz Melchior: The Golden Years of Bayreuth, the latter a biography of his father, the opera singer and movie star Lauritz Melchior. With his wife, L.A. architect Cleo Baldon, Ib Melchior wrote the non-fiction books Reflections on the Pool: California Designs for Swimming and Steps & Stairways.

Melchior also wrote Hour of Vengeance, a play based on the Viking story of Amled that also inspired William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. In 1982, it was awarded the Hamlet Award for best playwriting by the Shakespeare Society of America.

As a filmmaker, 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).

For television, he wrote "The Premonition" episode for the second season of the original The Outer Limits series. The episode was broadcast in 1965.

Melchior's short story The Racer was adapted as Paul Bartel's cult film favorite, Death Race 2000 (1975), starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone and produced by Roger Corman. It was later remade as Death Race (2008), starring Jason Statham and Joan Allen, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and produced by Tom Cruise.

He claims to be the creator of the original idea upon which Irwin Allen based his 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. Ed Shifres' book Lost in Space: The True Story is a detailed documentation of how Irwin Allen allegedly plagiarized Melchior's script, with the two outlines presented side by side.

Decades later, Prelude Pictures hired Melchior as a consultant on its Lost in Space feature film adaptation, but later sold his contract to New Line Cinema, its production partner on the film. New Line agreed to pay Melchior a $75,000 production bonus and $15,000, but refused him his contractually promised two percent of the producer's gross receipts from the film.

Melchior, who is a decorated war hero of World War II, has also been involved in a long legal battle involving his father's estate, Chossewitz in Brandenburg, Germany, which was confiscated by the communist government of East Germany and never returned.

In 1965, he was dubbed Knight Commander of the Militant Order of Saint Brigitte of Sweden.

In 1976, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films awarded Ib Melchior its Golden Scroll Award to Merit for Outstanding Achievement.

Biographies include Ib Melchior: Man of Imagination by Robert Skotak, as well as Melchior's own autobiography Case by Case: A U.S. Army Counterintelligence Agent in World War II.

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Total Books: 37
Case by Case A US Army Counterintelligence Agent in World War II
Case By Case a Us Army Counterintelligence Agent in World War II (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780891414445
ISBN-10: 0891414444
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Code Name Grand Guignol
Code Name Grand Guignol (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780396088172
ISBN-10: 0396088171
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Eva
Eva (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780396082941
ISBN-10: 0396082947
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Eva
Eva (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780931773280
ISBN-10: 0931773288
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Haigerloch project
The Haigerloch Project (Other)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780060129460
ISBN-10: 0060129468
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Haigerloch Project
Haigerloch Project (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780285622951
ISBN-10: 0285622951
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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the marcus device
The Marcus Device (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780553198096
ISBN-10: 0553198092
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Melchior  La Carte
Melchior La Carte (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781593933395
ISBN-10: 1593933398
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Order of battle
Order of Battle (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780060129378
ISBN-10: 0060129379
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Order of Battle Hitler's Werewolves
Order of Battle Hitlers Werewolves
Order of Battle Hitlers Werewolves (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780891414308
ISBN-10: 0891414304
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Quest Searching for Germany's Nazi Past
Quest Searching for Germany's Nazi Past (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780891415527
ISBN-10: 0891415521
Genre: History
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Reflections on the Pool  California Designs for Swimming
Six Cult Films From The Sixties
Six Cult Films From the Sixties (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781593935092
ISBN-10: 1593935099
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Humor & Entertainment
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Sleeper agent
Sleeper Agent (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780060129422
ISBN-10: 0060129425
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Sleeper Agent
Sleeper Agent (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780515041811
ISBN-10: 0515041815
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Steps  Stairways
Steps Stairways (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780847810758
ISBN-10: 0847810755
Genre: Engineering & Transportation
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The Tombstone Cipher
The Tombstone Cipher (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780553231878
ISBN-10: 0553231871
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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V3
V3 (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780396084839
ISBN-10: 0396084834
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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THE WATCHDOGS OF ABADDON
The Watchdogs of Abaddon (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780285624047
ISBN-10: 0285624040
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Watchdogs of Abaddon
The Watchdogs of Abaddon (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780553134117
ISBN-10: 0553134116
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