Gill-man
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The Gill-man, commonly called The Creature from The Black Lagoon, or simply The Creature, is the movie monster of the 1954 black-and-white film Creature from the Black Lagoon and its two sequels Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956).
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- Concept and design
- Films
- Origin
- Biology
- Fictional character biography
- ''Creature from the Black Lagoon''
- ''Revenge of the Creature''
- ''The Creature Walks Among Us''
- Cancelled remake
- Reboot
- In literature
- ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' (1954 novelization)
- ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' (1981)
- ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' (1977 novelization)
- ''Creature from the Black Lagoon: Black Water Horror - A Tale of Terror for the 21st Century''
- ''Creature from the Black Lagoon: Time's Black Lagoon''
- Theme park attraction
- See also
- References
- External links
The Gill-man, commonly called The Creature from The Black Lagoon, or simply The Creature, is the movie monster of the 1954 black-and-white film Creature from the Black Lagoon and its two sequels Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956).
In all three films, Ricou Browning portrays the Gill-man when he is swimming underwater. In the scenes when the Gill-man is walking on dry land, Ben Chapman performed the Gill-man in the first film, followed by Tom Hennesy in the second, and Don Megowan in the third.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gill-man” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.