George Gipe (February 3, 1933, Baltimore, Maryland – September 6, 1986, Glendale, California) was an American magazine writer, author and screenwriter.
He later joined WMAR-TV in Baltimore, where he won awards for documentaries and local programming.
His career as a writer began in 1967 with a non-fiction work called Nearer to the Dust: Copyright and the Machine, which anticipated several future legal issues surrounding computerized storage of copyrighted writing and information.
Gipe is chiefly remembered for his contributions to two screenplays: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), and The Man With Two Brains (1983), both co-written with Carl Reiner and Steve Martin.
He is also noted for his novelizations of several popular movies of the 1980s, including Melvin and Howard, Gremlins and Back to the Future.