American screenwriter, novelist and director (1912–1997)
For other people named Samuel Fuller, see Samuel Fuller (disambiguation).
Samuel Fuller
Fuller in Normandy, France in 1987
Born
Samuel Michael Fuller
(1912-08-12)August 12, 1912
Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
October 30, 1997(1997-10-30) (aged 85)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names
Sam Fuller
Occupations
Director
screenwriter
novelist
journalist
actor
Years active
1936–1994
Spouses
Martha Downes Fuller
(div. 1959)
Christa Lang
(m. 1967)
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.
Samuel Michael "Sam" Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, actor, and World War...
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and screenwriter. Lang worked frequently with her husband, director SamuelFuller and is known for such films as White Dog, Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street...
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Constance Towers, and Gene Evans. Written, directed and produced by SamuelFuller, it tells the story of a journalist who gets himself intentionally committed...
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written and directed by SamuelFuller and starring Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante and Virginia Grey. It was Fuller's second film for Allied...
one storm, William Butten, the young, indentured servant of physician SamuelFuller, died—the sole fatality of the voyage: 350 — and was buried at sea....
critically-acclaimed films. This included Daryl Duke's The Silent Partner (1978), SamuelFuller's White Dog (1982), and Carroll Ballard's Never Cry Wolf (1983). Moving...
Harris, Rod Taylor and Al Lettieri. It is based on the novel Riata by SamuelFuller. Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick (Harris) is a pacifist. He is compelled to...
Raoul Minot, a French gangster Nicholas Ray as "Derwatt", an artist SamuelFuller as The American, a gangster Peter Lilienthal as Marcangelo, the gangster...
themed crime Western. In 1963, Towers was cast in a supporting role in SamuelFuller's thriller Shock Corridor (1963), which tells the story of a journalist...
Stella Garcia, Don Gordon, Peter Fonda, Julie Adams, Sylvia Miles, SamuelFuller, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, Tomas Milian, Toni Basil, Severn Darden...
Forty Guns is a 1957 American Western film written and directed by SamuelFuller, filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope and released by the 20th Century...
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SamuelFuller, it featured several ahead-of-its-time ideas about race and society's perception of race, a thematic and stylistic trademark of Fuller.[citation...
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