Samuel Fuller | |
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 Fuller in Normandy, France in 1987 | |
| Born | Samuel Michael Fuller August 12, 1912 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | October 30, 1997 (aged 85) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Sam Fuller |
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| Years active | 1936–1994 |
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Samuel Michael "Sam" Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997)[1] was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, actor, and World War II veteran known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. Fuller wrote his first screenplay for Hats Off in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western I Shot Jesse James (1949). He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s.
Fuller shifted from Westerns and war movies in the 1960s with his low-budget thriller Shock Corridor in 1963, followed by the neo-noir The Naked Kiss (1964). He was inactive in filmmaking for most of the 1970s, before writing and directing the semi-autobiographical war epic The Big Red One (1980), and the drama White Dog (1982), whose screenplay he co-wrote with Curtis Hanson. Several of his films would prove influential to French New Wave filmmakers, notably Jean-Luc Godard, who gave him a cameo appearance in Pierrot le Fou (1965).[2][3]
- ^ Samuel Fuller, with Christa Fuller and Jerome Rudes, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002) p7
- ^ "Director's Cut". The New Yorker. November 18, 2002. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- ^ "10 essential films from the French New Wave". March 14, 2021. Retrieved November 16, 2021.