Bob Gale

Gale was born to a Jewish family in University City, Missouri, the son of Maxine, née Kippel, (died 2010), an art dealer and violinist, and Mark R. Gale (1922–2018), an attorney, World War II veteran, and later a University City councilman. He has two younger brothers, Charlie, who wrote the screenplay for Ernest Scared Stupid, and Randy. Gale received a B.A. in Cinema in 1973 from the University of Southern California, where he wrote fanzine reviews for classmate Mike Glyer's fanzine, and met classmate Zemeckis.[citation needed]
As a child, Gale dreamed he would one day "go to Hollywood and work for Walt Disney", who was his hero. As a teen, he created his own comic book, The Green Vomit, using spirit duplication, and co-founded a popular comic book club in St. Louis. Later, he and his brother Charlie made their own amateur three-film series parody of the Republic Pictures Commando Cody…