Paul Huson
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Paul Huson (born September 19, 1942) is a British-born author and artist currently living in the United States. In addition to writing several books about occultism and witchcraft he has worked extensively in the film and television industries.
Family
Huson was born on September 19, 1942 in London, England, the son of the author Edward Richard Carl Huson and painter and motion picture costume designer Olga Lehmann.[1]
Huson currently lives in Los Angeles. His partner and frequent collaborator is William Bast.[2][3]
Work in Film and Television
After a walk-on role in Rene Clement's film starring Gerard Phillipe Monsieur Ripois, Huson acted in Laurence Olivier's film of Richard III playing the part of Edward, Prince of Wales, one of the two Princes in the Tower.[4]
Huson attended Leighton Park School from 1956 through 1959, then entered the Slade School of Fine Art at the University of London as a Diploma student from 1959 through 1963, with a principal in painting under Andrew Forge and a subsidiary in theatrical design under Nicholas Georgiadis and Peter Snow (artist). In 1963 he was awarded an Associated Rediffusion Scholarship to study film under Thorold Dickinson for a further post graduate year.
From 1965 through 1968 Huson worked as an Art Director for BBC television and Columbia Pictures, UK, before emigrating to the United States, where he began writing books and stories and scripts for American television, which included the television series Family and James at Fifteen. Between 1982 and 1987 he and his partner William Bast wrote and produced three television series Tucker's Witch, The Hamptons, and The Colbys, a spin-off from the Aaron Spelling series Dynasty; The Colbys won the 1986 People's Choice Award. In 1989 he and Bast wrote a two-part series Twist of Fate, followed in 1991 by The Big One: the Great Los Angeles Earthquake another two-parter, which was instrumental in putting Los Angeles on alert to their, up until then, inadequate earthquake response arrangements. In 1995 Huson and Bast wrote the teleplay for Danielle Steel's popular novel Secrets. In 1995 they wrote Deadly Invasion; a paranormal thriller The Fury Within; and Power and Beauty, a controversial biographical teleplay about socialite Judith Exner and her relationship with President John F. Kennedy[5].
Esoteric Studies
While still a student at the Slade Huson studied the Qabalah and the Western Esoteric Tradition with Dion Fortune's Society of the Inner Light. In 1964 he worked as Karlis Osis' research assistant at the American Society of Psychical Research in New York. In 1965 he studied the history and practices of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Stella Matutina under the aegis of Israel Regardie.[6]
Huson subsequently wrote a number of popular books on occult and allied subjects: the influential Mastering Witchcraft (1970)[7][8][9][10]; a study of tarot symbolism The Devil's Picturebook (1971);Mastering Herbalism (1974); an introduction to parapsychology How to Test and Develop your ESP (19750); two novels, The Keepsake (1981), and The Offering (1984), and a second work on tarot symbolism and the history of tarot reading, Mystical Origins of the Tarot (2004)[11]. He generally illustrates his non-fiction books himself, and designed a deck of tarot cards based upon his research, Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot (2009)[12].
Memberships
He is a member of the Authors Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Writers Guild of America, west, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Notes
- ^ Internet Movie Database, "Paul Huson"
- ^ Bast, William, Surviving James Dean, New Jersey: Barricade Books, 2006, ISBN 1-56980-298-X, pp vii, 289
- ^ Internet Movie Database, William Bast
- ^ Internet Movie Database, "Paul Huson"
- ^ Internet Movie Database, "Paul Huson"
- ^ Clifton, Chas, and Harvey, Graham,The Paganism Reader, New York: Routledge, 2004, ISBN 1-56980-298-X, p. 170
- ^ Cunningham, Scott The Truth about Witchcraft Today, MN: Llewellyn, 2002
- ^ Christopher Penzack Sons of the Goddess MN: Llewellyn, 2005
- ^ Luhrmann, T.M. Persuasions of the Witch's Craft, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989
- ^ Farren, David, Finding Magic: The Teachings of an American Coven, iUniverse, 2001.
- ^ http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/Mystical_Origins_of_the_Tarot
- ^ http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/Dame_Fortune%27s_Wheel_Tarot
Further References to Paul Huson
- Clifton, Chas, Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America, Lanham, MD: Rowman Altamira, 2006, ISBN 0759102023.
- Contemporary Authors (Biography), Thomson Gale, 2004.
- Farrar, Stewart, Eight Sabbats for Witches, WA: Phoenix Publishing, 1988, ISBN 0919345263.
- Freedland, Nat, The Occult Explosion, New York: G.P.Putnams Sons, 1972, ISBN 0399109544.
- Gunther, Max, Wall Street and Witchcraft, New York: B. Geis Associates, 1971.
- Insdorf, Annette, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Luhrmann, T.M., Persuasions of the Witch's Craft, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-674-66323-3.
- Nichols, Sallie, Jung and Tarot, Weiser, 1980.
- Pollack, Rachel, The Forest of Souls, Llewellyn, 2001.
- Pollack, Rachel, Tarot Wisdom, Llewellyn, 2008.
- Rabinovitch and Lewis, The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neopaganism, Citadel Press, 2004.
- Sharman-Burke, J., Mastering the Tarot, St. Martin's Griffen, 2001.
- Skelton, Robin, The Practice of Witchcraft Today, Citadel, 1995.
- Terrace, Vincent, The Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials: 1774-1985, New York: Zoetrope, 1985.
- Valiente, Doreen, The Rebirth of Witchcraft, London: Robert Hale, 1989, ISBN 0-7090-3715-5.
- Who's Who in Entertainment, Illinois: Marquis Who's Who, Macmillan, 1988.
- The Witches' Almanac, pp. 82–86, The Witches' Almanac Ltd., Providence R.I., 2009.