John W. Campbell Jr.

John W. Campbell Jr. was born on Jun 08, 1910 in USA. John W. Campbell Jr.'s big-screen debut came with The Thing from Another World directed by Christian Nyby in 1951. John W. Campbell Jr. is known for The Thing directed by John Carpenter, Kurt Russell stars as MacReady and Wilford Brimley as Dr. Blair. The upcoming new movie John W. Campbell Jr. plays is The Thing which will be released on Oct 14, 2011.

John W. Campbell, Jr. was an American science fiction writer and editor, known predominantly for the sub-genre 'Hard Science Fiction', and further credited for his role in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He began writing science fiction in his teens and attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then studied at Duke University where he gained his Bachelor of Science in Physics. By the time he reached his early twenties, however, he was already a well-known writer for the Pulp Magazines.Campbell played a crucial and influential part in the careers of Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, Arthur C. Clarke, Tom Godwin, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and A.E. van Vogt. He was further considered as one of THE most influential editors working in the world of science