Norton’s made-for-TV creature featured premiered on the CBS television network as part of the “New CBS Tuesday Night Movies” on Nov. and Jules Bass the two were known for their classic “ Animagic” stop-motion animation holiday masterpiece specials. Videocraft International) the famed animation studio that was founded by Arthur Rankin Jr. GE’s Tomorrow unit was also involved in Rankin/Bass Productions (a.k.a. “Gargoyles” was produced by Tomorrow Entertainment, the film production arm of General Electric according to IMDB and Broadcasting (Broadcasting and Cable) Magazine the production firm was set up by GE in 1970 for broadcast network features). “Bob” Christiansen, Roger Gimbel and Rick Rosenberg. Norton’s made-for-TV production of “Gargoyles” was produced by veteran producers Robert W. The teleplay for “Gargoyles” (1972) was written by the husband-and-wife screenwriting team of Stephen Karpf and Elinor Karpf. Wells’ “ The Invisible Man” (three episodes in 2001). Norton also directed also directed several episodes of “ Tour of Duty” (from 1987-89), “ SeaQuest: DSV” (two episodes in 1993) with Roy Scheider and the Sci-Fi Channel (pre- “SyFy”) miniseries adaptation of H.G. The 1972 classic creature telefilm masterpiece was directed by Bill Norton, who was credited under the name of B.W.L. After Stan threatened to leave the production, the producers relented and the gargoyle-creators received their credits.“Award-winning horror classic!” Cover art for the out-of-print Hen’s Tooth Video DVD edition of “ Gargoyles” (1972), featuring Bernie Casey.

This was Stan Winston’s first real professional job (he had only just finished a three-year Walt Disney Studios makeup apprenticeship program), but he still had the guts to insist that he get a credit in the movie (which was seldom done at the time). The heads were created by Stan Winston Jim Phillips (on the left) & Ellis Burman do an early makeup application of the lead gargoyle (played by Bernie Casey) Gargoyle masks sculpted by Stan Winston for background characters Close-up shot of one of the background gargoyles from the film set Stan Winston applies dark camouflage makeup to a background actor on-set The costumes for the background gargoyles were by Ross Wheat (the bodies were neoprene wetsuits covered in fishnet and small pieces of rubber).

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