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Harry J. Essex (November 29, 1910 in New York City – February 6, 1997 in Los Angeles) was a former reporter for The New York Daily Mirror who in 1935 sold his story “The Electric Man” to Universal, who eventually filmed it as Man Made Monster (1941). In later years he became a director of low budget science fiction movies, but he will always be remembered as the creator of the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).

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