Samuel Fuller
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA — Aug 12 1912• Died Oct 30 1997
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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 workin…
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Scene of the Crime
Directing
The Virginian
Writing
Rebel Highway
Writing
Chillers
Directing
1941
Interceptor Commander
The Big Red One
War Correspondent (uncredited)
The End of Violence
Louis
Pierrot le Fou
Samuel Fuller (uncredited)
Targets
Writing
Forty Guns
Writing
White Dog
Charlie Felton
The American Friend
The American
Sodankylä Forever
Self
The Baron of Arizona
Writing
Somebody to Love
Sam Silverman
Let's Get Harry
Writing
The Klansman
Writing
La Vie de Bohème
Gassot
Sons
Father
The Last Movie
Sam
Merrill's Marauders
Writing
Pickup on South Street
Writing
Girls in Prison
Writing
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
Self
Cinématon
N°602
China Gate
Directing
A Return to Salem's Lot
Van Meer
The Command
Writing
Verboten!
Writing
The Deadly Trackers
Writing
Hammett
Old Man in Pool Hall
Made in U.S.A
Crew
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
War Correspondent (uncredited)
Hell and High Water
Directing
A Fuller Life
Self
Shockproof
Writing
Slapstick of Another Kind
Colonel Sharp
Bowery Boy
Writing
The State of Things
Joe
Run of the Arrow
Writing
Federal Man-Hunt
Writing
Sodankylä Forever
Self
Scandal Sheet
Writing
Park Row
Writing
The Meanest Men in the West
Directing
House of Bamboo
Japanese policeman (uncredited)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Self
David Lansky
Confirm or Deny
Writing
I Shot Jesse James
Directing
The Naked Kiss
Directing
Gangs of New York
Writing
Shock Corridor
Directing
Hooray For Holyrood
Self
The Steel Helmet
Writing
Shark
Directing
Fixed Bayonets!
Directing
Filmmakers in Action
Self (archive footage)
Scene Missing
Self
The Young Nurses
Doc Haskell
Underworld U.S.A.
Production
Street of No Return
Police Commissioner
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
Himself (archive footage)
Scott Joplin
Impresario
Dogface
Directing
The Crimson Kimono
Production
Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
Le capitaine américain
Anything for John
Self
Hats Off
Writing
She Married a Cop
Writing
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Self
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Boss
Margin for Error
Writing
Midnight Sun Film Festival
Carmel
Power of the Press
Writing
It Happened in Hollywood
Writing
The Tanks Are Coming
Writing
Thieves After Dark
Zoltan
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Directing
The Madonna and the Dragon
Chef de bureau Newsweek
Golem, the Spirit of Exile
Elimelek
The Cape Town Affair
Writing
Films to Die For
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Golem: The Petrified Garden
Sam
Brigitte and Brigitte
Self
The Day of Reckoning
Directing
Report from Hollywood
Gangs of Chicago
Writing
Adventure in Sahara
Writing
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
Self
The Bleeding Star
The Man in the Bar
Where Is Musette?
Self
Falkenau, the Impossible
Samuel Fuller
Gangs of the Waterfront
Writing
Un Américain en Normandie
Himself
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
Self
Nuits transparentes
Shock Corridor
himself
Necro not(to b)e
Sé stesso
V-E +1
Directing
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Himself
Cinéastes de notre temps : Samuel Fuller
Interviewee
A Travelling is a Moral Affair
Himself
Tell me Sam - Encounters with Sam Fuller
Himself