John Beaird was a screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

 and film producer. He was responsible for scripting two of the most well-known slasher films of the early 1980s, My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine (film)

My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film released in the wake of the popularity of the slasher genre that had overtaken the 1970s...

(1981) and Happy Birthday To Me (1981), though his work on the latter went uncredited. My Bloody Valentine is notorious for its rough treatment at the hands of the MPAA, which demanded extensive cutting of the film's gore. Beaird died in 1993 in Los Angeles, California.

Screenplays

• My Bloody Valentine
  My Bloody Valentine (film)
  My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film released in the wake of the popularity of the slasher genre that had overtaken the 1970s...
  
  (1981)
• Happy Birthday To Me (1981 - co-screenplay, uncredited)
• Trapped (1982)
• North Beach and Rawhide (1985 - story, co-teleplay)

Actor

• Challenger (1990)