premise: Ed Wood is not a movie.
hypothesis: Ed Wood . ( October 10 , 1924 -- December 10 , 1978 ) was an American filmmaker , actor , writer , producer , and director . In the 1950s , Wood made a number of low-budget films in the science fiction , comedy , and horror genres , intercutting stock footage . In the 1960s and 1970s , he made sexploitation movies and wrote over 80 pulp crime , horror and sex novels . Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical period comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton , and starring Johnny Depp as cult filmmaker Ed Wood . This is a list of films starring , written , produced and directed by Ed Wood .