Ed Wood filmography

This is a list of films starring, written, produced and directed by Ed Wood.

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1950	The Baron of Arizona	Stunts	A biopic about James Reavis starring Vincent Price as the conman who nearly stole the Arizona Territory.
1951	The Sun Was Setting	Director, Screenwriter	Short TV film about a young woman coming to terms with her impending death. May never have aired. Stars Tom Keene, Phyllis Coates & Angela Stevens.
1953	Glen or Glenda	Director, Screenwriter, Actor - "Glen"	This fictional documentary approach to transvestitism, also known as I Changed My Sex! or I Led Two Lives!, was semi-autobiographical in nature and many suggest that Wood filmed it as a plea for tolerance. The story revolves around the real world's first successful sex change operation. Movie producer George Weiss wanted to capitalize on the current buzz by making a freak-show type film about sex reassignment surgery. Wood made a pitch, took the money and, much to Weiss' horror, produced this compassionate film about transvestites. The film stars Wood himself (as Daniel Davis), Bela Lugosi, Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot and Timothy Farrell.
	Son of the Renegade	Co-Screenwriter	Another Johnny Carpenter film, actually shot after The Lawless Rider. Wood is said to have helped with the plot.
	Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid	Director, Screenwriter, Actor - "Cowboy"	Pilot for an unproduced television series starring Tom Keene and featuring Lyle Talbot, Harvey B. Dunn, Tom Tyler and Wood.
	Boots	Director, Screenwriter	Apparently, another attempt to launch Crossroad Avenger.
1954	The Lawless Rider	Associate Producer	Johnny Carpenter film shot in 1953. Wood may have contributed to the script.
	Jail Bait	Director, Screenwriter	Sometimes referred to as The Hidden Face, a film noir in which a criminal has a face swap operation in order to avoid the police.
1955	Bride of the Monster	Director, Co-Screenwriter	Originally titled The Atomic Monster and then Bride of the Atom. Lugosi plays a mad scientist bent on creating a race of atomic supermen that will allow him to take over the world. Johnson plays Professor Vornof's lumbering assistant, Lobo. The film contains a lot of (mostly inexplicable) stock footage and an obviously rubber giant octopus (actually stolen by Wood and his colleagues from storage at Republic Studios) in the finale. The leading lady in the film is played by Loretta King. Tim Burton affectionately relates much of the story behind this movie in Ed Wood.
1956	The Violent Years	Screenwriter	A neglected rich teenage girl and three of her friends go on a crime spree, which primarily consists of robbing gas stations and vandalizing classrooms. In one scene, the young women come across two lovers in a car on the side of a country road and tie up the woman in the car and lead the man in the car to a field at gunpoint, where at least one of the girls has sex with him. It was the most financially successful film of Wood's career.
1957	The Astounding She-Monster	Consultant	Wood served as an unofficial "consultant" on this Ronald Ashcroft film such as advising on the use of stock footage.
	Final Curtain	Director, Screenwriter	Television pilot starring Duke Moore and narrated by Dudley Manlove; footage from this unsold pilot was later integrated into Wood's Night of the Ghouls.
	The Night the Banshee Cried	Director, Screenwriter
1958	The Bride and the Beast	Screenwriter	Also known as Queen of the Gorillas, this film tells the story of a woman who becomes attracted to a great ape kept in her husband's cellar. When hypnotised, it is discovered that, in a previous life, she was queen of the gorillas. A RiffTrax version was released in 2014.
	Night of the Ghouls	Director, Screenwriter	This film was shot in 1958 but was not released until 1984 (direct to video) because Wood could not afford to pay the fee to process the negatives. The plot revolves around a confidence trickster, Dr. Acula, played by Kenne Duncan, who pretends to be able to contact the dead, and charges people large amounts of money to speak to their relatives. The movie is a sequel to Bride of the Monster, and stars Tor Johnson as Lobo, the same part he played in Bride. The ending has Acula inadvertently summoning a group of real ghosts, and being imprisoned for all eternity. This is one of the movies featuring a Criswell prologue.
1959	Plan 9 from Outer Space	Director, Screenwriter	This is Wood's best known movie, shot in 1956 but not released until 1959.
	Revenge of the Virgins	Screenwriter
early 1960s	Trick Shooting with Kenne Duncan	Director
1961	The Sinister Urge	Director, Screenwriter	Crime picture about women going missing or turning up dead in a local park. Police suspect the involvement of the pornography industry and the Mob.
	Anatomy of a Psycho	Reportedly contributed to Jane Mann's story and screenplay. Excerpts of Wood's music for Plan 9 from Outer Space used for this film
1962	Married Too Young	Co-Screenwriter
1963	Shotgun Wedding	Screenwriter
1965	Orgy of the Dead	Screenwriter, Production Manager	Also known as Revenge of the Dead. This marked the definite transition of Wood's interests from horror to erotica. In the film, a writer and his girlfriend crash their car and find themselves in a cemetery where they are forced to watch the dead dance for a Lord of the Dead, played by Criswell. A bevy of dancing strippers outfitted in various motifs make up the bulk of this movie, though it also oddly features a werewolf and a mummy. Strangely assembled and surreal in its plot and blatantly low-budget. Wood did not direct this project.
1967	For Love and Money	Screenwriter
1969	Operation Redlight	Screenwriter, actor	Based on Wood's book Mama's Dirary written as Dick Trent. Wood played a popular sex novelist managing a house of ill-repute in Vietnam.
	Gun Runners	Screenwriter
	One Million AC/DC	Screenwriter	Wood used the pseudonym of 'Akdov Telmig' (Vodka Gimlet), though a typographical error in the credits styled it as 'Akdon Telmig'.
	The Love Feast	Co-screenwriter, Actor - "Mr. Murphy"	Also known as The Photographer and Pretty Models All In A Row. Soft-core pornographic movie with Ed in the lead (and comic relief). Stated by some sources to have been written and directed by Joseph F. Robertson, while others (including Robertson) state Ed filled those functions.
1970	Mrs. Stone's Thing	Actor - "Transvestite"	Also known as The Sensuous Wife Ed's friend (and fellow veteran) Joseph F. Robertson made this film.
	Take It Out in Trade	Director, Screenwriter	Wood's first completely pornographic picture. This picture mostly featured friends' ex-girlfriends and people from Ed Wood's neighborhood, most notably real-life sex worker, Nona Carver. Silent outtakes were uncovered and released by Something Weird Video in 1995.
	Excited	Screenwriter	Wood used the pseudonym of 'Akdov Telmig' (Vodka Gimlet). Director Ed DePriest says he can't recall if Ed or Gary Graver wrote it, but Graver didn't direct. (Rialto Report.) Wood used Akdov Telmig on the other script he wrote for DePriest: One Million AC/DC.
	Venus Flytrap	Screenwriter (uncredited)	Japanese / U.S. monster film starring James Craig as a scientist who creates sentient life from plants. Written by Wood in the 1950s, the film was released in America for a VHS release under the name Revenge of Dr. X, the tape also deleting the film's real credits and erroneously listing the major credits for The Mad Doctor of Blood Island. It is not clear if this film ever played in cinemas.
1971	The Only House In Town	Director, Screenwriter	Has nothing to do with Wood's novel The Only House. Stars Uschi Digard with Wood late-career regulars Lynn Harris and Neola Graef. In Wood's own words (in Wild Screen Reviews), "The Only House In Town is about lust, rape, crime, hate, sex, love, money, death, blood, Lesbians, orgies, whores, bootleggers and ghosts. It is also the story of a house and what that house does to people’s minds.”
	Necromania	Director, Screenwriter	The screenplay to this Wood-directed movie is based on his own novel, The Only House. A married couple are having sexual problems and they decide to employ the assistance of a necromancer called Madame Helles. Helles' assistant Tanya takes care of them both physically before they meet the necromancer herself. It was shot on 16 mm film for about $7,000. This movie was long thought lost; a copy of the softcore version surfaced in 1992 and the hardcore version was rediscovered by Wood fan Rudolph Grey in 2001. Ed is credited as "Don Miller"
	Nympho Cycler	Director, Screenwriter, Actor
	The Young Marrieds	Director	A pornographic film that was thought to be lost until it was found in 2004.
1972	The Class Reunion	Co-Screenwriter
	The Undergraduate	Screenwriter	A White Coater. Sex ed class. Some sources say dropped 4/19/71. Sequel of The Postgraduate (1970)–also a spoof of The Graduate (1967), but in title only–produced again by Jacques Descent (who produced Operation Redlight above)
	The Cocktail Hostess	Co-Screenwriter
	Drop-out Wife	Co-Screenwriter	Also known as Pleasure Unlimited
	The Snow Bunnies	Co-Screenwriter
1974	Fugitive Girls	Co-screenwriter, Actor - "Pops" and "Sheriff"	There are at least three versions of this film. Fugitive Girls (also known as Five Loose Women) appears to be the complete film. Hot on the Trail contains more plot and less sex, while Women's Penitentiary VIII features more sex and less plot.
1975	The Encyclopedia of Sex	Co-Director, Co-Screenwriter	A collection of 8 mm sexual education movies
1976	The Beach Bunnies	Co-Screenwriter	Also known as The Sun Bunnies
1978	Hot Ice	Assistant Director	Contrary to many write-ups, Wood didn't write this. He had a role as janitor, but it was cut last minute due to his drunkenness on set.
1985	Beach Blanket Bloodbath	Screenwriter (posthumous)	Near the end of his life, Wood was contacted by young filmmaker Fred Olen Ray and commissioned to write a script for a horror/comedy. The script was never completed and the film never made, but Ray shot a few minutes of the existing screenplay on the set of his film Star Slammer. The resulting footage was eventually released as an extra on a DVD release of The Bride and the Beast.
1993	Hellborn	Director, Actor - various (archive footage)	Wood and actor Conrad Brooks planned a film called Hellborn and began shooting it in the mid-1950s. The film was never completed, but footage was used in Wood's films Night of the Ghouls and The Sinister Urge. The video release collected all footage known to be extant at that time.
	Plan 69 From Outer Space	based on screenplay	A hardcore adult parody of Plan 9 From Outer Space.
1994	Glen and Glenda	Screenwriter (posthumous)	A hardcore adult re-telling of Glen or Glenda.
	Ed Wood	character, dialogue from previous films	A biopic on Ed Wood's life, starring Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton
1995	Crossroads of Laredo	Director, Screenwriter, Actor - Cowboy (posthumously completed)	Originally shot in 1948 as Streets of Laredo, this was the first film Wood shot. He wrote, directed and appeared in it, but the film was never completed in Wood's lifetime. Shot without a soundtrack, the final film was assembled with narration and songs written by Ed's ex-girlfriend Dolores Fuller.
1995	Take It Out in Trade: The Outtakes	Director, Screenwriter	Silent outtakes
1998	I Woke Up Early the Day I Died	Screenwriter (posthumous)	This film, based on Wood's last unproduced script, stars Billy Zane and features performances from many established stars like Christina Ricci and John Ritter.
2000	Devil Girls	based on Ed's novel (posthumous)	Independent production that adapts Ed's book of the same name.