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Samuel Fuller

Samuel Fuller

Director · Born 1912-08-12 · Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes. He was born Samuel Michael Fuller in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Benjamin Rabinovitch, a Jewish immigrant  from Russia, and Rebecca Baum, a Jewish immigrant from Poland. After immigrating to America, the family's surname was changed from Rabinovitch to "Fuller" possibly by inspiration of a Doctor who arrived in America on the Mayflower.  At the age of 12, he began working in journalism  as a newspaper  copyboy. He became a crime reporter  in New York City at age 17, working for the New York Evening Graphic. He broke the story of Jeanne Eagels' death.  He wrote pulp novels and screenplays  from the mid-1930s onwards. Fuller also became a screenplay  ghostwriter  but would never tell interviewers which screenplays that he ghost-wrote explaining "that's what a ghost writer is for". During World War II, Fuller joined the United States Army infantry. He was assigned to the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, and saw heavy fighting. He was involved in landings in Africa, Sicily, and Normandy …

Directed

  1. The Big Red One (1980) — Director
  2. Pickup on South Street (1953) — Director
  3. White Dog (1982) — Director
  4. Shock Corridor (1963) — Director
  5. The Naked Kiss (1964) — Director
  6. Forty Guns (1957) — Director
  7. Scene of the Crime (1970) — Director
  8. Underworld U.S.A. (1961) — Director
  9. The Steel Helmet (1951) — Director
  10. House of Bamboo (1955) — Director
  11. The Crimson Kimono (1959) — Director
  12. Hell and High Water (1954) — Director
  13. The Baron of Arizona (1950) — Director
  14. Merrill's Marauders (1962) — Director
  15. I Shot Jesse James (1949) — Director
  16. Run of the Arrow (1957) — Director
  17. Fixed Bayonets! (1951) — Director
  18. Park Row (1952) — Director
  19. The Virginian (1962) — Director
  20. Shark (1969) — Director
  21. China Gate (1957) — Director
  22. Verboten! (1959) — Director
  23. Street of No Return (1989) — Director
  24. The Meanest Men in the West (1978) — Director
  25. Thieves After Dark (1984) — Director
  26. The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (2005) — Director
  27. The Dick Powell Show (1961) — Director
  28. Chillers (1990) — Director
  29. The Madonna and the Dragon (1990) — Director
  30. V-E +1 (1945) — Director
  31. Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972) — Director
  32. Dogface (1959) — Director
  33. The Day of Reckoning (1990) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Pierrot le Fou (1965) — Samuel Fuller (uncredited)
  2. 1941 (1979) — Interceptor Commander
  3. The American Friend (1977) — The American
  4. The Big Red One (1980) — War Correspondent (uncredited)
  5. A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) — Van Meer
  6. White Dog (1982) — Charlie Felton
  7. La Vie de Bohème (1992) — Gassot
  8. The State of Things (1982) — Joe
  9. Hammett (1982) — Old Man in Pool Hall
  10. The End of Violence (1997) — Louis
  11. House of Bamboo (1955) — Japanese policeman (uncredited)
  12. The Last Movie (1971) — Sam
  13. Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) — Colonel Sharp
  14. Street of No Return (1989) — Police Commissioner
  15. Somebody to Love (1994) — Sam Silverman
  16. Brigitte and Brigitte (1966) — Self
  17. Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made (1994) — Self
  18. A Fuller Life (2013) — Self
  19. Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987) — Boss
  20. Scott Joplin (1977) — Impresario
  21. The Young Nurses (1973) — Doc Haskell
  22. The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996) — Self
  23. The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (2005) — War Correspondent (uncredited)
  24. Thieves After Dark (1984) — Zoltan
  25. Golem, the Spirit of Exile (1992) — Elimelek
  26. Falkenau, the Impossible (1988) — Samuel Fuller
  27. Cinématon (1978) — N°602
  28. Carmel (2009)
  29. Golem: The Petrified Garden (1993) — Sam
  30. Filmmakers in Action (2006) — Self (archive footage)
  31. Sodankylä Forever (2010) — Self
  32. The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002) — Self
  33. Sons (1990) — Father
  34. Anything for John (1993) — Self
  35. The Madonna and the Dragon (1990) — Chef de bureau Newsweek
  36. Scene Missing (2012) — Self
  37. The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One' (2005) — Himself (archive footage)
  38. David Lansky (1989)
  39. Report from Hollywood (1985)
  40. Where Is Musette? (1992) — Self