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Alex Rebar

Known for acting · Born 9 July 1940 · Died 19 November 2021 · aged 81 · Dallas, Pennsylvania, USA

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Alexander John Rebar (July 9, 1940 – November 19, 2021) was an American producer, writer and actor. He was most known for starring in the cult film The Incredible Melting Man. He was born in Dallas, Pennsylvania on a farm where he rode horses. He attended Valley Forge Military Academy and Wilkes College before enlisting in the Navy as a Photographers Mate. After serving in the Korean War he moved to Paris where he co-founded and acted with the Studio Theater of Paris and managed a jazz club. In Rome, Rebar worked for Production Cinitalia Edizone doing voice dubbing for Marcello Mastroianni, Klaus Kinski and the Italian version of Mighty Mouse. He went on to write Beyond the Door and made his star turn as the Incredible Melting Man. Through the 1980s Rebar went on to numerous television appearances in The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, Murder, She Wrote, CHiPs and Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes while simultaneously writing and producing infamous cult films such Demented, Santa Claus slasher film To All a Goodnight, horror/rock documentary Terror on Tour, and Thanksgiving slasher film Home Sweet Home. In the early 2000s he briefly came out of retirement to begin producing videos for the internet including a series called "Sex, Pain and Murder" for iFilm.

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Known for

The Incredible Melting Man

1977

Beyond the Door

1974

To All a Goodnight

1980

Demented

1980

Terror on Tour

1980

Nowhere to Hide

1987

Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion

1970

Beyond the Door: 35 Years Later

Beyond the Door: 35 Years Later

2009

Murder, She Wrote

1984

Home Sweet Home

1981

CHiPs

1977

Amityville: The Evil Escapes

1989

Acting (9)

2009Beyond the Door: 35 Years LaterSelfFilm
1989Amityville: The Evil EscapesReadeFilm
1987Number One with a BulletBoudreauFilm
1984Murder, She WroteGuzmann, HypnotistSeries
1977CHiPsGeorgeSeries
1977The Incredible Melting ManSteve WestFilm
1973Tales of CanterburyRichard IIFilm
1972The Murder of Julius CaesarFilm
1970Microscopic Liquid Subway to OblivionJohnFilm

Production (2)

1981Home Sweet HomeExecutive ProducerFilm
1980Terror on TourExecutive Producer, ScreenplayFilm

Writing (4)

1987Nowhere to HideStory, ScreenplayFilm
1980To All a GoodnightScreenplay, Executive ProducerFilm
1980DementedWriter, Executive ProducerFilm
1974Beyond the DoorWriterFilm