Guerdon Saltonstall Trueblood (November 2, 1933 – March 3, 2021) was a Costa Rican-born American screenwriter, producer, director and actor.
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. He had an elder sister, Felicity (1932-2021).The Trueblood Family in America, 1682-1963: John Trueblood of Shoreditch, England, and His Descendants, Additions and Corrections to the 1964 Edition, B. T. Watson, Edwards Bros, 1970, p. 21 Edward Trueblood was a Princeton-educated diplomat assigned to Asuncion, Santiago, and Paris,Princeton Alumni Weekly, vol. LIV, September 25, 1951, no. 1, p. 11Register of the Department of State, U. S. Department of State, 1938, p. 237 and would later serve as a UNESCO 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 Encyclopædia Britannica, and an associate professor of Latin American Studies in Phoenix, Arizona.The Wroe and Chancellor Families, With Special Attention to the Descendants of Chancellor Wroe (1782-1818) and His Wife, Elizabeth Monroe Chancellor (1793-1872), William Clarke Wroe, W. C. Wroe, 1992, p. 135 The Trueblood family had been resident in America since 1682, being descendants of John Trueblood, of Shoreditch, London, England.The Trueblood Family in America, 1682-1963: John Trueblood of Shoreditch, England, and His Descendants, Additions and Corrections to the 1964 Edition, B. T. Watson, Edwards Bros, 1970, p. 28
At age eight, his parents having divorced in 1940,A Brief History of Lewis Allen of Fisher Island and New London, Conn., and his descendants from 1699 to 1954, Mary Allen Phinney, Tuttle Publishing Co., 1954, p. 88 Trueblood went to live with his grandparents in Alexandria, Virginia. After serving in the United States Navy as a sonar technician, he attended George Washington University, majoring in speech and drama, then lived in Provence, France before moving to Hollywood in 1969.
Career Trueblood co-wrote, with Richard Matheson, Jaws 3D (1983); and Sole Survivor (1970), directed by Paul Stanley and starring Vince Edwards, Richard Basehart and William Shatner. 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. 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 artisthttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874101 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
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