Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton was a novelist, and he moved into directing for the screen with Westworld. The film welds two worlds together, science fiction and the western: the androids in an amusement park break down, and Yul Brynner appears as a lethal one pursuing two visitors. Westworld was also the first film to put two-dimensional computer imagery on screen. Coma and The First Great Train Robbery are the other two films he directed in the catalogue.