Paul Huson

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name=Paul Anthony Huson


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Paul Huson is a British-born author and artist currently living in the United States. In addition to writing several books about occultism and witchcraft he has worked extensively in the film and television industries.

Family

Huson was born on September 19, 1942 in London, England, the son of the author Edward Richard Carl Huson and painter and motion picture costume designer Olga Lehmann [Internet Movie Database, "Paul Huson"] .

Huson currently lives in Los Angeles. His partner and frequent collaborator is William Bast [Bast, William, "Surviving James Dean", New Jersey: Barricade Books, 2006, ISBN 1-56980-298-X, pp vii, 289] [Internet Movie Database, "William Bast"] .

Career

In 1955, Huson took a turn at acting, and appeared in Laurence Olivier's film of "Richard III" as Edward, Prince of Wales, one of the two Princes in the Tower [Internet Movie Database, "Paul Huson"] .

From 1956 through 1959 he attended Leighton Park School, a Quaker school in Berkshire, England; from 1959 through 1963, he studied painting, theatrical design and film at the Slade School of Fine Art, University of London while studying the Western Esoteric Tradition with Dion Fortune's Society of the Inner Light. In 1965 he studied with students of the Stella Matutina and Israel Regardie [Clifton, Chas, and Harvey, Graham,"The Paganism Reader", New York: Routledge, 2004, ISBN 1-56980-298-X, p. 170] .

From 1965 to 1968 he worked as an Art Director for BBC television and Columbia Pictures, UK, before emigrating to the United States, where he wrote "Mastering Witchcraft" (1970), "The Devil's Picturebook" (1971), a study of tarot symbolism, "Mastering Herbalism" (1974), two novels, "The Keepsake" (1981), and "The Offering" (1984), and a second work on tarot symbolism and tarot reading, "Mystical Origins of the Tarot" (2004). He generally illustrates his non-fiction books himself.

From 1985 through 1987 he wrote and produced for television with William Bast "The Colbys", a spin-off from the Aaron Spelling series "Dynasty"; "The Colbys" won the 1986 People's Choice Award. Huson also collaborated with Bast writing and producing a variety of other television series and movies, including "Tucker's Witch", "The Hamptons", "Twist of Fate", "The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake", "Power and Beauty", and "The Fury Within" [Internet Movie Database, "Paul Huson"] .

Memberships

He is a member of the Authors Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Writers Guild of America, west, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Notes

Further reading

*Clifton, Chas, "Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America", Lanham, MD: Rowman Altamira, 2006, ISBN 0759102023.
*"Contemporary Authors" (Biography), Thomson Gale, 2004.
*Farrar, Stewart, "Eight Sabbats for Witches", WA: Phoenix Publishing, 1988, ISBN 0919345263.
*Freedland, Nat, "The Occult Explosion", New York: G.P.Putnams Sons, 1972, ISBN 0399109544.
*Luhrmann, T.M., "Persuasions of the Witch's Craft", Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-674-66323-3.
*Valiente, Doreen, "The Rebirth of Witchcraft", London: Robert Hale, 1989, ISBN 0-7090-3715-5.
*"Who's Who in Entertainment", Illinois: Marquis Who's Who, Macmillan, 1988.

External links

* [http://paulhuson.com/ Paul Huson's web site, containing excerpts from some of his books.]
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* [http://www.tv.com/paul-huson/person/81082/summary.html credits for Paul Huson] at tv.com