Biography
Bob Gale is an American screenwriter, producer and director. Born in University City, Missouri, on 25 May 1951, he graduated with a B.A. in cinema from the University of Southern California in 1973, where he met his frequent writing partner Robert Zemeckis.
Gale is best known for co-writing the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990) with Zemeckis and co-producing the three films. He received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of the first film. Other screenwriting credits include 1941 (1979), Used Cars (1980) and Trespass (1992); he made his feature directorial debut with Interstate 60 (2002).
Gale has also written comic books and served as an expert witness in plagiarism cases.
