Guerdon Saltonstall Trueblood (November 2, 1933 – March 3, 2021) was a Costa Rican-born American screenwriter, producer,

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and

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Early life and education

Trueblood was born in San Jose, Costa Rica to Edward Gatewood Trueblood (1905-1994) and Elizabeth (1906-1973), daughter of United States Army general and aviator

Billy Mitchell William Lendrum Mitchell (December 29, 1879 – February 19, 1936) was a United States Army officer who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force. Mitchell served in France during World War I and, by the conflict's end, command ...

. He had an elder sister, Felicity (1932-2021). Edward Trueblood was a Princeton-educated diplomat assigned to Asuncion, Santiago, and Paris, and would later serve as a

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cultural relations officer in Uruguay and India, and as permanent U.S. representative to UNESCO stationed in Paris; he was also a senior editor of the

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, and an associate professor of Latin American Studies in Phoenix, Arizona. The Trueblood family had been resident in America since 1682, being descendants of John Trueblood, of Shoreditch, London, England. At age eight, his parents having divorced in 1940, Trueblood went to live with his grandparents in

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. After serving in the

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as a sonar technician, he attended

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, majoring in speech and drama, then lived in

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, France before moving to Hollywood in 1969.

Career

Trueblood co-wrote, with

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, '' Jaws 3D'' (1983); and '' Sole Survivor'' (1970), directed by

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and starring

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and

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. He directed the cinematography of ''Hollywood Meat Cleaver Massacre'' (1976), where he also played the nuthouse doctor starring Christopher Lee. He created, produced and wrote ''Bravo Two'' (1977), directed by

Ernest Pintoff Ernest Pintoff (December 15, 1931 in Watertown, Connecticut – January 12, 2002 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an American film and television director, screenwriter and film producer. He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for ''The ...

. He directed '' The Candy Snatchers'' (1973), written by Bryan Gindoff and produced by Marmot Productions.

Personal life

In 1964, Trueblood married Anne-Marie ("Anna") Vaughan Read, who predeceased him; they had two sons- visual effects artist Guerdon jr, and Christopher- and a daughter, Alexandra. Trueblood died on March 3, 2021, in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, at the age of 87.

Filmography

Films

Television series

References

External links

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