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Arnold, Alan

(1922-1987) UK Cinema publicist and author who in the former capacity worked on the promotion of Billion Dollar Brain (1967) (see Len Deighton), Phase IV (1974), Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Brazil (1985), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) (see Sherlock Holmes; Steven Spielberg; Steampunk) and other genre or genre-adjacent films. Of direct sf interest was his first book, the nonfiction Once Upon a Galaxy: A Journal of the Making of Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back (1980), whose title is self-explanatory. Arnold also novelized the Young Sherlock Holmes screenplay by Chris Columbus, as Young Sherlock Holmes (1985). [DRL]

Alan Arnold

born Hendon, Middlesex: 1922

died London: 29 August 1987

works

• Young Sherlock Holmes (New York: Pocket Books, 1985) [tie to the film Young Sherlock Holmes (1985): pb/photographic]

nonfiction

• Once Upon a Galaxy: A Journal of the Making of Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back (London: Sphere, 1980) [tie to the film Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980): pb/photographic]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Internet Movie Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 01:48 am on 12 April 2026.
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