Writer

Since leaving San Francisco State in 1974, Mr. Del Valle has achieved national recognition as a journalist, columnist, film historian, radio and television commentator and is one of the leading authorities on the horror/science-fiction/cult and fantasy film genres. He has contributed to magazines internationally and has been interviewed by the BBC, A & E Network, Channel 4 (London) and The Sci-Fi Channel. He is currently in American Movie Classics documentary entitled “It Conquered Hollywood,” the history of American-International Pictures. This special will air the entire month of April 2001. This presentation is also up for Oscar consideration as a Best Documentary Film of 2000. He is also the producer and on-camera host of Vincent Price’s only interview regarding his career in the horror film. This interview has already won awards in Italy’s prestigious Mystery Festival and is now available for American distribution as it has never appeared on US television.

In addition to the Vincent Price interview, Del Valle produced and hosted a series of television interviews entitled “Sinister Image.” His guests ran the gamut from Cameron Mitchell to Russ Meyer, a compilation was later released as “Cult People” from Cine Phile Video, a now-sought after collector’s item long out of print.

On the Internet, David keeps up-to-date with his column CAMP DAVID for Films in Review.com, America’s oldest film magazine now preserved in cyberspace until it returns to print format.

His print articles & interviews have appeared in such publications as Cinefantastique, Scarlet Street, Cult Movies, Fangoria, Films and Filming (Del Valle was American corresponent for this British magazine from 1983-1987), Video Watchdog, The Dark Side (UK), Fantastyka (France) and L’Ecran Fantastique (France) both of which he was the American correspondent.

David Del Valle most recently completed a year as a radio host in Palm Springs in an entertainment-oriented program working three hours of airtime on AM and the Internet all over the world and is preparing those shows for marketing under the “Camp David” banner.

David has finally completed his nearly three decade study of the Edgar Allen Poe films of Roger Corman to be published in 2011 as BURING DOWN THE HOUSE co-authored by Prof Samuel Umland. Also completed His personal memoirs based somewhat on the past five years of autobiographcal Camp David columns is also ready for publication under the title LOST HORIZONS. These memoirs comprise his 25 myears as a Hollywood agent and foreign correspondent observing the many aspriing show business types whose dreams of stardom became their lost horizons….think TALES OF THE CITY meets HOLLYWOOD BABYLON.