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Alex Rebar

Acting

July 9, 1940 β€” November 19, 2021Dallas, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Known for

Amityville: The Evil Escapes1989

Amityville: The Evil Escapes

Reade

Number One with a Bullet1987

Number One with a Bullet

Boudreau

The Incredible Melting Man1977

The Incredible Melting Man

Steve West

Tales of Canterbury1973

Tales of Canterbury

Richard II

The Murder of Julius Caesar1972

The Murder of Julius Caesar

Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion1970

Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion

John

Behind the camera

Nowhere to Hide1987

Nowhere to Hide

Screenplay

To All a Goodnight1980

To All a Goodnight

Screenplay

Demented1980

Demented

Writer

Terror on Tour1980

Terror on Tour

Screenplay

Beyond the Door1974

Beyond the Door

Writer