Douglass Smith
Known As: Ivan StangBirthplace: Washington, D.C., USABiography: American writer, filmmaker and broadcaster, best known as the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. He is credited with founding the Church with friend Steve Wilcox (aka Philo Drummond) in 1979, though he himself denied this and claimed the organization was founded in 1953 by J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.
