Biography
Al Adamson (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was a prolific director of B-grade horror films throughout the 1960s and 1970s. After assisting his father, Victor Adamson, in making the 1963 movie Halfway to Hell, Adamson decided to work in the motion picture industry himself. Three years later, he and Sam Sherman founded Independent-International Pictures, which became the vehicle for the many movies he directed. Among them are Psycho-A-Go-Go (later worked into Blood of Ghastly Horror), Satan's Sadists, Horror of the Blood Monsters, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, and Five Bloody Graves. After Adamson was reported missing for five weeks in 1995, after which law enforcement officials discovered his murdered corpse beneath the concrete and tile-covered whirlpool bath in his newly remodeled bathroom. The perpetrator was his live-in contractor Fred Fulford who, after being apprehended at the Coral Reef hotel on St Pete Beach, Florida, was charged with and convicted of murder, and was sentenced to twenty-five-years in prison. Description above from the Wikipedia article Al Adamson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Directed
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) — Director
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Black Samurai (1976) — Director
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Carnival Magic (1983) — Director
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Satan's Sadists (1969) — Director
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Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970) — Director
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Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969) — Director
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Brain of Blood (1971) — Director
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Nurse Sherri (1978) — Director
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Death Dimension (1978) — Director
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Girls for Rent (1974) — Director
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Cinderella 2000 (1977) — Director
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The Female Bunch (1971) — Director
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Blood of Ghastly Horror (1967) — Director
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The Dynamite Brothers (1974) — Director
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Angels' Wild Women (1972) — Director
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Jessi's Girls (1975) — Director
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Psycho a Go Go (1965) — Director
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Five Bloody Graves (1969) — Director
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The Naughty Stewardesses (1973) — Director
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Blazing Stewardesses (1975) — Director
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Hell's Bloody Devils (1970) — Director
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Doctor Dracula (1978) — Director
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Sunset Cove (1978) — Director
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1976) — Director
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Black Heat (1976) — Director
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Mean Mother (1974) — Director
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Half Way to Hell (1960) — Director
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Lost (1983) — Director
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Lash of Lust (1972) — Director
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Bedroom Stewardesses (1978) — Director
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The Fiend with the Electronic Brain (1967) — Director
Also appeared in
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Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970) — Earthly Vampire (uncredited)
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Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019) — Himself (archive footage)
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Psycho a Go Go (1965) — Travis (uncredited)
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Black Heat (1976) — Uncredited
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Half Way to Hell (1960) — Slade
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The Fiend with the Electronic Brain (1967) — Travis