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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
Quote
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.
Fact
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
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
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
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
Bronson 2008 Prison Officer / Screw

Special Effects

Title Year Status Character
A Field of Honor 1973 Short special effects and titles

Miscellaneous

Title Year Status Character
The Lift 1972 Short production assistant

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
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
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
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
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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