Journalist, producer, film historian and Nobel Prize winner -- well, three out of four -- Nat Segaloff has worked in nearly all phases of the film business and lived to write about others who did it, too.
Nat Segaloff is a writer-producer-journalist. He covered the film industry for The Boston Herald, but has also variously been a studio publicist (Fox, UA, Columbia), college teacher (Boston University, Boston College), and broadcaster (Group W, CBS, Storer). He is the author of twenty books including "Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin," "Arthur Penn: American Director," and "Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors" in addition to career monographs on Stirling Silliphant, Walon Green, Paul Mazursky and John Milius. His writing has appeared in such varied periodicals as Film Comment, Written By, International Documentary, Animation Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Time Out (US), MacWorld, and American Movie Classics Magazine. He was also senior reviewer for AudiobookCafe.com and contributing writer to Moving Pictures magazine. His "The Everything® Etiquette Book," "The Everything Trivia Book," and "The Everything® Tall Tales, Legends & Outrageous Lies Book" are in multiple printings for Adams Media Corp.
As a TV writer-producer, Segaloff helped perfect the format and create episodes for A&E's flagship "Biography" series. His distinctive productions include episodes on John Belushi, Stan Lee, Larry King, Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop, and Darryl F. Zanuck. He wrote and co-produced the Rock 'n' Roll Moments music series for The Learning Channel/Malcolm Leo Productions, and has written and/or produced programming for New World, Disney, Turner Classic Movies, and USA Networks. He is co-creator/co-producer of “Judgment Day” with Grosso-Jacobson Communications Corp. for HBO.
His extraterrestrial endeavors include the cheeky sequel to the Orson Welles "Invasion From Mars" radio hoax, “When Welles Collide,” which featured a "Star Trek"® cast. It was produced by L.A. Theatre Works and has become a Halloween tradition on National Public Radio. In 1996 he formed the multi-media production company Alien Voices® with actors Leonard Nimoy and actor John de Lancie and produced five best-selling, fully dramatized audio plays for Simon & Schuster: The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Lost World, The Invisible Man and The First Men in the Moon, all of which feature "Star Trek"® casts. Additionally, his teleplay for The First Men in the Moon was the first-ever TV/Internet simulcast and was presented live by The Sci-Fi Channel. He has also written narrative concerts for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, celebrity events, is a script consultant, and was a contributing writer to Moving Pictures magazine. He now contributes fiction to Nikki Finke’s celebrated website, HollywoodDementia.com
Nat is the co-author of “The Waldorf Conference,” a comedy-drama about the secret meeting of studio moguls that began the Hollywood Blacklist, which had its all-star world premiere at L.A. Theatre Works. and was acquired for production by Warner Bros. He produced a subsequent production to benefit the Hollywood ACLU and the Writers Guild Foundation, and has also produced such other celebrity events as a public reading of censored books and a recreation of the classic anti-HUAC broadcast, “Hollywood Fights Back.” He was staff producer for The Africa Channel, wrote the stage play “Closets” (produced at Massachusetts’ Gloucester Stage Company), and wrote for the popular public radio quiz show “Says You!” after having been a frequent guest panelist.
Other books include "A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison" (NESFA Press), nominated for Hugo and Locus awards, "Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God;" "Mr. Huston/Mr. North: Life, Death, and the Making of John Huston’s Last Film," "Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood" and its sequel, "Screen Saver Too: Hollywood Strikes Back," "Guiding Royalty: My Adventure with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton" (co-written with Yoram Ben-Ami). His first novel, "Guarding Gable," and its enhanced audiobook, came out in 2018. Also ne ware "Hollywood & Venal," a collection of the roman-a-clefs he wrote for Nikki Finke’s celebrated Hollywood Dementia website, and second editions of "A Lit Fuse" (available on Kindle) and "Arthur Penn: American Director."
His most recent release is "Big Bad John: The John Milius Interviews."
Nat lives in Los Angeles waiting for his phone calls to be returned.
