by Ib Melchior
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About the Author
Ib Melchior, as well as being a best-selling author, is also a motion picture writer-director-producer in Hollywood with some twelve feature films and numerous TV shows to his credit.
He was born and educated in Denmark and graduated from the University of Copenhagen, majoring in literature and languages. He then joined a British theatrical company, The English Players, headquartered in Paris, France, as an actor and toured Europe with this troupe, becoming stage manager and co-director of the company. Just prior to the outbreak of World War II in Europe he came to the United States with this company to do a Broadway show.
Then followed a stint in the stage-managing department of Radio City Music Hall and the Center Theater Ice Shows in New York, and when Pearl Harbor was attacked he volunteered his services to the U.S. Armed Forces. He served with the “cloak-and-dagger” OSS for a while and was then transferred to the U.S. Military Intelligence Service. He spent two years in the European Theater of War as a Military Intelligence Investigator attached to the Counter Intelligence Corps. For his work in the ETO he was decorated by the U.S. Army as well as by the King of Denmark, and subsequently awarded the Knight Commander Cross of the Militant Order of St. Brigitte of Sweden.
After the war he became active in television and also began his writing career. He has directed some five-hundred television shows both live and filmed, ranging from the musical The Perry Como Show on CBS-TV, on which he served as director for three and a half years, to the dramatic documentary, The March of Medicine on NBC-TV. He has also functioned as director or in a production capacity on eight motion picture features in Hollywood, including AIP’s unusual The Time Travelers, which he also wrote.
Besides this extensive career as a director, Ib Melchior’s background as an author and writer includes numerous stories and articles published in many national magazines including Life, as well as in several European periodicals, some of which have been included in anthologies. He has also written a couple of legitimate plays for the stage, one being Hour of Vengeance, a dramatization of the ancient Amleth legend that was the original source for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This play was produced at the Globe Playhouse in Los Angeles, and the Shakespeare Society of America and the Hamlet Society International jointly awarded Melchior the “Hamlet Award,” 1982, for excellence in playwriting.
Melchior has won several national awards for television and documentary film shorts that he wrote, directed, and produced, and he has written several scripts for various TV series including Men Into Space and The Outer Limits. Among his feature motion pictures are such films as Ambush Bay, a film with a World War II background filmed in the Philippines for United Artists, as well as the notable Robinson Crusoe on Mars for Paramount and several other films with a science fiction theme. In 1976 he was awarded the Golden Scroll by the Academy of Science Fiction for best writing.
Ib Melchior is the author of the best-selling, critically acclaimed novels based on his own experiences as a CIC agent, Order of Battle, Sleeper Agent, and The Haigerloch Project, as well as The Watchdogs of Abaddon, The Marcus Device, and The Tombstone Cipher. His novels are now published in twenty-five countries.
Ib Melchior lives in a two-story, Mediterranean-style home in the Hollywood Hills. He is an avid collector of historical documents and military miniatures. He is married to the designer, Cleo Baldon, and has two sons. He is the son of the late Wagnerian tenor, Lauritz Melchior.
