Ernie Fosselius (born 1946) is an American filmmaker, best known for his classic Star Wars parody Hardware Wars.
After performing with the San Francisco band Earth Mother and The Final Solution, Fosselius' film career began in the early 1970’s when he co-created 20 original animated films for Sesame Street.
Fosselius is known for his satirical short films. One of the most notable, made in 1976 for "Mother's Little Network", a Pythonesque sketch c...
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Ernie Fosselius (born 1946) is an American filmmaker, best known for his classic Star Wars parody Hardware Wars.
After performing with the San Francisco band Earth Mother and The Final Solution, Fosselius' film career began in the early 1970’s when he co-created 20 original animated films for Sesame Street.
Fosselius is known for his satirical short films. One of the most notable, made in 1976 for "Mother's Little Network", a Pythonesque sketch comedy show for WGBH in Boston, was The Hindenburger, in which a flying Big Mac burst into flames over New Jersey while a radio announcer (voiced by Fosselius) emotionally sobbed: "Oh the humanity!"
Fosselius' biggest hit was his 1978 parody Hardware Wars, a 12 minute parody of Hollywood coming attractions that took on the cultural juggernaut that was Star Wars. He followed Hardware Wars with Porklips Now, a sendup of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now which starred Billy Gray of TV's "Father Knows Best". After that film, Fosselius continued...
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