Matt Cimber

Biography

Writer, director and producer Matt Cimber was born as Matteo Ottaviano in 1936 and began his career in the early 60s directing off-Broadway plays including works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams and the US premieres of the Jean Cocteau trilogy. During his theater years, Cimber rewrote Burning Bright with John Steinbeck which introduced Sandy Dennis who went on to win an Academy Award for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) . Cimber then directed the Broadway revival of Bus Stop, where he met future wife Jayne Mansfield. Matt made his cinematic directorial debut with the offbeat Single Room Furnished (1966), which was also Mansfield's last movie. He followed this movie with the film The Sexually Liberated Female (1970) which was based on a best-selling book The Sensuous Female by J. As the screenwriter / director of this film, Cimber made a satire which required the title be changed for release because the publisher rescinded the rights. Cimber did three immensely enjoyable blaxploitation pictures in the mid 70s: The Black 6 (1973), Lady Cocoa (1975) and the terrifically trashy The Candy Tangerine Man (1975) which was also Samuel L. Jackson 's favorite film. Matt made a…

Directed

1. The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976) — Director
2. Man & Wife: An Educational Film for Married Adults (1969) — Director
3. Hundra (1983) — Director
4. Butterfly (1982) — Director
5. Single Room Furnished (1968) — Director
6. Lady Cocoa (1975) — Director
7. The Black Six (1973) — Director
8. The Candy Tangerine Man (1975) — Director
9. He & She (1972) — Director
10. Fake-Out (1982) — Director
11. A Time to Die (1982) — Director
12. The Sensually Liberated Female (1970) — Director
13. Gemini Affair (1975) — Director
14. Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold (1984) — Director
15. Black Is Beautiful - Africanus Sexualis (1970) — Director
16. Sex & Astrology (1971) — Director
17. Miriam (2006) — Director
18. Calliope (1971) — Director
19. Tiger Man (1978) — Director
20. Stallone's Knockouts (1990) — Director
21. That Girl from Boston (1975) — Director
22. Mondo Hunt (1972) — Director
23. Alias Big Cherry (1975) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Lady Cocoa (1975) — Arthur (as Gary Harper)
2. 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015) — Self
3. Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde (2015) — Self (archive footage)
4. Fake-Out (1982) — Hit Man #2
5. Tides and Nightmares (2016) — Himself
6. Deconstructing Dunning (2016)