Rudolph Grey is a musician and the biographer of filmmaker Ed Wood.^[1]

As an electric guitarist, Grey has recorded and performed with Mars,^[2] under his own name, as well as leading various ad hoc ensembles called The Blue Humans.^[3] His music draws on no wave and free jazz.

Grey is also a motion picture historian and has written Nightmare of Ecstasy (1992), a biography of Ed Wood, the director of notoriously awful cult films. Tim Burton's film Ed Wood was based on Grey's book.

In 2001, Grey rediscovered a copy of Ed Wood's final feature-length film, Necromania, which had been presumed to be lost, in a Los Angeles warehouse.^[4]

In 2011, Grey produced a one-hour documentary called Dad Made Dirty Movies, about the life and career of 1960s porn film producer Stephen Apostolof, detailing his co-productions with filmmaker Ed Wood.^[5]

Published works include:

• 1992: Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., Feral House, ISBN 978-0-922915-04-0; reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8 – Biography of Ed Wood