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Rudolph Grey is a musician and the biographer of filmmaker Ed Wood.

As an electric guitarist, Grey has recorded and performed with Mars, with John Giorno in the opera Agamemon (1993), and under his own name. Grey has also as led and recorded with various ad hoc ensembles called The Blue Humans. His music draws on no wave and free jazz.

Grey is also a motion picture historian and has written Nightmare of Ecstasy (1992), a biography of Ed Wood, the director of notoriously awful cult films. Tim Burton's film Ed Wood was based on Grey's book.

In 2001, Grey rediscovered a copy of Ed Wood's final feature-length film, Necromania, which had been presumed to be lost, in a Los Angeles warehouse.

In 2011, Grey produced a one-hour documentary called Dad Made Dirty Movies, about the life and career of 1960s porn film producer Stephen Apostolof, detailing his co-productions with filmmaker Ed Wood.

Discography

Mars

Rudolph Grey

Blue Humans

Red Transistor

Recordings of sessions led by others

Bibliography

Published works include:

• 1992: Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., Feral House, ISBN 978-0-922915-04-0; reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8 – Biography of Ed Wood

References

1. Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., 1992, Feral House, ISBN 978-0-922915-04-0; reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8
2. Marc Masters, (2007) No Wave London, Black Dog Publishing, pp. 42-46
3. The Blue Humans bio in Allmusic.com
4. New Yorker: Weird Love
5. , Elliott, Tim (2011-09-09). "Review: Dad Made Dirty Movies. smh.com.au.
6. "Live at Irving Plaza - Mars | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.

External links

• Rudolph Grey at AllMusic
• Rudolph Grey at IMDb

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