Bob Galerstein net worth is
$20 Million
Bob Galerstein Wiki Biography
Born Michael Robert Gale on the 25th May 1951, in University City, Missouri USA, Bob is an award- winning screenwriter, director and producer, best known to the world for creating the “Back to the Future” trilogy with Robert Zemeckis, among many other accomplishments.
Have you ever wondered how rich Bob Gale is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Gale’s net worth is as high as $20 million, an amount earned through his successful career in the entertainment industry, which has been active since the ‘70s.
Bob Gale Net Worth $20 Million
Bob is the oldest of three sons born to Mark R. Gale who worked as an attorney, and his wife, Maxine, an art dealer and violinist. From his early teen years, Bob became interested in comic books, and launched his own comic book “The Green Vomit”, while also started a comic book club in St. Louis which became quite popular. He took his first steps towards filmmaking when he and his brother Charlie made a film series parodying the “Republic Pictures Commando Cody”. He created one with his brother, and the other two in collaboration with Richard Rosenberg, who had taken over the whole production of the films.
After finishing high school, Bob enrolled at the University of Southern California, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in cinema. During his college years, he befriended Robert Zemeckis, with whom he would go on to create a number of films, including the aforementioned trilogy.
Bob started his career in the early ‘70s with short films – “The Annihilator Attacks” (1972) and The Discovery” (1973) – and then in 1978 worked for the first time with Zemeckis; the two wrote the romantic comedy film “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” (1978), starring Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco and Marc McClure. The two continued to work together by writing the screenplay for the action comedy “1941”, directed by Steven Spielberg, which was nominated for three Academy Awards. In 1980 the two created the comedy “Used Cars”, which starred Kurt Russell, Jack Warden and Gerrit Graham, then throughout the ‘80s, the two worked on a trilogy that launched them to stardom “Back to the Future” (1985), “Back to the Future II” (1989), and “Back to the Future III” (1990).
For the first film, the two received an Academy Award- nomination, while they won the Hugo award in the category Best Dramatic Presentation.
Following the success of these films, the two created the animated TV series “Back to the Future” (1991-1993), and worked as consultants for five video games created by Telltale games. Bob became focused primarily on the “Back to the Future” franchise, and aside from writing the action thriller “Trespass” in 1992, again with Zemeckis, Bob didn’t have any other work connected to the film industry until 2002, when he wrote and directed the adventure comedy “Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road”, with James Marsden, Gary Oldman and Kurt Russell in the lead roles.
In 2014 he started working on a stage musical of “Back to the Future” with Zemeckis, and it was announced that it would be premiered in 2015 for the 30th anniversary of the first installment of the franchise, however, the production of the musical has been interrupted and at the moment there has been no news about the musical.
His love for comic books continued in his adult life, and Bob has worked for Marvel and DC on such comics as “Ant-Man’s Big Christmas”, “Daredevil, “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “Batman”, which also increased his wealth.
Regarding his personal life, Bob is married to Tina, but there are no further details about their marriage, including whether the couple has children or not.
Full Name | Bob Gale |
Net Worth | $20 Million |
Date Of Birth | May 25, 1951 |
Place Of Birth | University City, Missouri, United States |
Profession | Actor, Producer |
Education | University of Southern California |
Nationality | American |
Parents | Mark R. Gale, Maxine Gale |
Siblings | Charles Gale, Randy Gale |
IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0301826/ |
Awards | Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Screenplay |
Nominations | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay |
Movies | Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Interstate 60, Used Cars, 1941, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Trespass, Back in Time, Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie, Bordello of Blood, Field Of Honor, Bronson |
TV Shows | Back to the Future |
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1 | [ on 'Back to the Future'] I don't know that part one was necessarily hugely cutting-edge. It was a very good melding of mechanical effects, where you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. So we're proud of that. This was way before we had computers or anything digital to do this stuff.. It holds up really well, and is probably the best time-machine film ever made. |
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1 | One of his favorite movies is Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). |
2 | He and Robert Zemeckis were known as "The Bobs" to Steven Spielberg and John Milius (and others) since they were always working and writing things together in and out of film school. Their writing structure as collaborators entailed both of them to be in the same room discussing things out loud and then one of them writing it down in longhand (as opposed to writing separately and then pooling it together afterward like some collaborators). Of all their scripts, Used Cars (1980) took the longest to write, from beginning to end, since they had to throw out an entire first draft. |
3 | Frequently works with director Robert Zemeckis on projects such as A Field of Honor (1973), the Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) episode "Chopper", I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), 1941 (1979), Used Cars (1980), Back to the Future (1985), the Amazing Stories (1985) episode "Go to the Head of the Class", Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Amazing Stories: Book II (1992), Trespass (1992), and Bordello of Blood (1996). |
4 | Currently writing the Marvel comic book Daredevil. |
5 | Wrote first chapter of Batman's "No Man's Land" crossover and will eventually write some Daredevil comics. |
6 | Bob often makes obscure references to his hometown in his scripts. |
7 | Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1973) |
Writer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Doc and Marty Teach Climate Change | 2016 | Short characters | |
Back to the Future: Doc Brown Saves the World | 2015 | Video short | |
Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition | 2015 | Video Game characters / story consultant | |
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 5, Outatime | 2011 | Video Game characters / story consultant | |
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 4, Double Visions | 2011 | Video Game characters / story consultant | |
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 3, Citizen Brown | 2011 | Video Game characters / story consultant | |
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 2, Get Tannen | 2011 | Video Game characters / story consultant | |
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 1, It's About Time | 2010 | Video Game characters / story consultant | |
Back to the Future Video Slots | 2004 | Video Game creator / story | |
Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road | 2002 | | |
Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure | 2001 | Video Game concept: Back to the Future | |
Bordello of Blood | 1996 | story | |
Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie | 1995 | Video Game | |
Tattoo Assassins | 1994 | Video Game as Bob 'Koldan' Gale | |
Tales from the Crypt | 1993 | TV Series screenplay - 1 episode | |
Back to the Future | 1991-1992 | TV Series creator - 26 episodes | |
Trespass | 1992 | written by | |
Back to the Future Part III | 1991 | Video Game based on characters created by | |
Back to the Future... The Ride | 1991 | Short characters - uncredited | |
Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | characters / screenplay / story | |
Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | characters / screenplay / story | |
Back to the Future Part II Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | |
Amazing Stories | 1986 | TV Series teleplay - 1 episode | |
Back to the Future | 1985 | written by | |
Used Cars | 1984 | TV Movie creator / written by | |
Used Cars | 1980 | written by | |
1941 | 1979 | screenplay / story | |
I Wanna Hold Your Hand | 1978 | written by | |
Kolchak: The Night Stalker | 1975 | TV Series story - 1 episode | |
A Field of Honor | 1973 | Short uncredited | |
The Discovery | 1973 | Short writer | |
The Annihilator Attacks | 1972 | Short | |
Director
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Back to the Future Video Slots | 2004 | Video Game | |
Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road | 2002 | | |
Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie | 1995 | Video Game | |
Tattoo Assassins | 1994 | Video Game as Bob 'Koldan' Gale | |
Tales from the Crypt | 1993 | TV Series 1 episode | |
Back to the Future | 1992 | TV Series 13 episodes | |
The Discovery | 1973 | Short | |
The Annihilator Attacks | 1972 | Short | |
Producer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Back for the Future | 2011 | Short executive producer | |
Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road | 2002 | producer | |
Trespass | 1992 | executive producer | |
Back to the Future | 1991 | TV Series executive producer - 2 episodes | |
The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy | 1990 | TV Special documentary short executive producer | |
Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | producer | |
Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | producer | |
Back to the Future Part II Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation | 1989 | TV Movie documentary executive producer | |
Time Travel: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy | 1985 | TV Movie documentary executive producer | |
Back to the Future | 1985 | producer | |
Used Cars | 1984 | TV Movie producer | |
Used Cars | 1980 | producer | |
I Wanna Hold Your Hand | 1978 | associate producer | |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Bronson | 2008 | | Prison Officer / Screw |
Special Effects
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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A Field of Honor | 1973 | Short special effects and titles | |
Miscellaneous
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Lift | 1972 | Short production assistant | |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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OUTATIME: Saving the DeLorean Time Machine | 2016 | Documentary extra special thanks | |
Beyond the Marquee | 2016 | TV Series special thanks - 1 episode | |
Back to the 2015 Future | 2015 | Short special thanks | |
Dorothy and the Witches of Oz | 2012 | special thanks | |
The Witches of Oz | 2011 | TV Mini-Series special thanks - 2 episodes | |
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 5, Outatime | 2011 | Video Game special thanks | |
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 4, Double Visions | 2011 | Video Game special thanks | |
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 3, Citizen Brown | 2011 | Video Game special thanks | |
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 2, Get Tannen | 2011 | Video Game special thanks | |
Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 1, It's About Time | 2010 | Video Game special thanks | |
El Panda | 2009 | Short dedicatee | |
Looking Back to the Future | 2009 | Video documentary special thanks | |
Back to the Future... The Pinball | 1990 | Video Game thanks | |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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OUTATIME: Saving the DeLorean Time Machine | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
Beyond the Marquee | 2012-2016 | TV Series | Himself - Special Guest / Himself - Guest |
DeLorean: Living the Dream | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
Back to 2015 | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Back in Time | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
The Real History of Science Fiction | 2014 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
The '80s: The Decade That Made Us | 2013 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Milius | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
Ace of Cakes | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
Hollywood Treasure | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
Tales from the Future | 2010 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Looking Back to the Future | 2009 | Video documentary | Himself |
The Mythology of Superman | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman | 2006 | Video documentary | Himself |
Looking Back at the Future | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
Fans of the Future | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
Hollywood's Master Storytellers: Back to the Future 20th Anniversary | 2005 | TV Movie | Himself |
The Making of 'Interstate 60' | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself |
The World's First Time Machine | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Back to the Future: Making the Trilogy | 2002 | Video documentary | Himself |
Back to the Future: Behind the Scenes | 2002 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Back to the Future Part 2: Behind the Scenes | 2002 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Back to the Future Part 3: Behind the Scenes | 2002 | Video documentary short | Himself |
The Making of '1941' | 1996 | Video documentary | Himself |
The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy | 1990 | TV Special documentary short | Himself |
The Making of 'Back to the Future III' | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Back to the Future Part II Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Making of 'Back to the Future II' | 1989 | Video short | Himself |
Citizen Steve | 1987 | Documentary short | Himself - Writer |
The Importance of Being Funny in America | 1987 | TV Movie documentary | Guest |
The Making of 'Back to the Future' | 1985 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2003 | DVDX Award | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best Live Action DVD Premiere Movie | Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002) |
2003 | DVDX Award | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best Screenplay for a DVD Premiere Movie | Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002) |
2001 | Lifetime Achievement Award | St. Louis International Film Festival | | |
1986 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Screenplay (Migliore Sceneggiatura Straniera) | Back to the Future (1985) |
1986 | Hugo | Hugo Awards | Best Dramatic Presentation | Back to the Future (1985) |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2003 | DVD Premiere Award | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best Audio Commentary, Library Release | Used Cars (1980) |
2003 | DVDX Award | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best Director of a DVD Premiere Movie | Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002) |
1991 | Hugo | Hugo Awards | Best Dramatic Presentation | Back to the Future Part III (1990) |
1986 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Back to the Future (1985) |
1986 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Screenplay - Motion Picture | Back to the Future (1985) |
1986 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Film | Back to the Future (1985) |
1986 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Screenplay - Original | Back to the Future (1985) |
1986 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Back to the Future (1985) |
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