George Weiss (producer)

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George Weiss (born April 9, 1921) is an American film producer who specialized in Z movies during the 1950s. Some the movies he made were Test Tube Babies and Racket Girls. He is also the film producer to give Ed Wood Jr. his start by financing the exploitation film Glen or Glenda which rumor has it, was originally conceived as a fictionalized story of the infamous sexual reassignment surgery had by Christine Jorgensen a few months earlier, but Wood changed it into a story about a transvestite and then tacked on a few scenes about sexual reassignment surgery.

Weiss was played by actor Mike Starr in the 1994 biopic Ed Wood.