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Bob Gale

Screenwriter, producer, director

Back to the Future
co-writer/ co-producer

He is most famous for co-writing and co-producing the Back to the Future trilogy with his writing partner Robert Zemeckis. Bob Gale came up with the premise for Back to the Future when looking through his father’s old high school yearbook.

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