Samuel Fuller
Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, 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 woul...
Filmography
Titles and credit roles
Director credits
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The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
The Madonna and the Dragon
Street of No Return
Thieves After Dark
White Dog
The Big Red One
The Meanest Men in the West
Shark
The Naked Kiss
Shock Corridor
Merrill's Marauders
Underworld U.S.A.
The Crimson Kimono
Verboten!
Forty Guns
Run of the Arrow
China Gate
House of Bamboo
Hell and High Water
Pickup on South Street
Park Row
Fixed Bayonets!
The Steel Helmet
The Baron of Arizona
I Shot Jesse James
Actor credits
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Films to Die For
Sodankylä Forever
Carmel
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
Somebody to Love
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
Anything for John
Golem, le jardin pétrifié
La Vie de Bohème
Golem, the Spirit of the Exile
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Sons
Falkenau, the Impossible
A Return to Salem's Lot
Helsinki-Naples All Night Long- HOHooray For Holyrood
- REReport from Hollywood
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
The State of Things
Slapstick of Another Kind
The American Friend
Brigitte and Brigitte
Pierrot le Fou
Other credits
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A Fuller Life
Girls in Prison
Let's Get Harry
The Klansman
The Deadly Trackers
Targets
The Cape Town Affair
The Command
The Tanks Are Coming
Shockproof
Gangs of the Waterfront
Margin for Error
Power of the Press
Confirm or Deny
Gangs of Chicago
She Married a Cop
Federal Man-Hunt
Gangs of New York
Adventure in Sahara
It Happened in Hollywood
Hats Off