Samuel Fuller

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 working in journalism as a newspaper copyboy. He became a crime reporter in New York City at age 17, working for the New York Evening Graphic. He broke the story of Jeanne Eagels' death. He wrote pulp novels and screenplays from the mid-1930s onwards. Fuller also became a screenplay ghostwriter but would never tell interviewers which screenplays that he ghost-wrote explaining "that's what a ghost writer is for". During World War II, Fuller joined the United States Army infantry. He was assigned to the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, and saw heavy fighting. He was involved in landings in Africa, Sicily, and Normandy and also saw action in Belgium and Czechoslovakia. In 1945 he was present at the liberation of the German concentration camp at Falkenau and shot 16 mm footage which was used later in the documentary Falkenau: The Impossible. For his service, he was awarded the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, and the Purple Heart. Fuller used his wartime experiences as material in his films, especially in The Big Red One (1980), a nickname of the 1st Infantry Division. After his controversial film "White Dog" was shelved by Paramount pictures, Fuller moved to France, and never directed another American film. Fuller eventually returned to America. He died of natural causes in his California home. In November 1997, the Directors Guild held a three hour memorial in his honor, hosted by Curtis Hanson, his long time friend and co-writer on White Dog. He was survived by his wife Christa and daughter Samantha.

Known For: Directing

Born: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 1912-08-12

Died: 1997-10-30

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	House of Bamboo	Japanese policeman (uncredited)	61
2	1965	Pierrot le Fou	Samuel Fuller (uncredited)	74
3	1966	Brigitte and Brigitte	Self	61
4	1967	Cinéastes de notre temps : Samuel Fuller	Interviewee	0
5	1971	The Last Movie	Sam	57
6	1973	The Young Nurses	Doc Haskell	39
7	1977	Scott Joplin	Impresario	61
8	1977	The American Friend	The American	71
9	1978	Cinématon	N°602	43
10	1979	1941	Interceptor Commander	58
11	1980	The Big Red One	War Correspondent (uncredited)	67
12	1982	The State of Things	Joe	65
13	1982	Hammett	Old Man in Pool Hall	62
14	1982	White Dog	Charlie Felton	66
15	1982	Slapstick of Another Kind	Colonel Sharp	27
16	1984	Sam Fuller & the Big Red One	Himself	0
17	1984	Thieves After Dark	Zoltan	47
18	1985	Report from Hollywood		0
19	1986	A Travelling is a Moral Affair	Himself	0
20	1986	Hooray For Holyrood	Self	0
21	1987	Midnight Sun Film Festival		0
22	1987	The Bleeding Star		0
23	1987	A Return to Salem's Lot	Van Meer	59
24	1987	Helsinki Napoli All Night Long	Boss	57
25	1988	Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire	Le capitaine américain	0
26	1988	Falkenau, the Impossible	Samuel Fuller	70
27	1989	Tell me Sam - Encounters with Sam Fuller	Himself	0
28	1989	Street of No Return	Police Commissioner	51
29	1990	Sons	Father	50
30	1990	Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders	Self	0
31	1990	The Madonna and the Dragon	Chef de bureau Newsweek	60
32	1992	Where Is Musette?	self	0
33	1992	Shock Corridor	himself	0
34	1992	La Vie de Bohème	Gassot	75
35	1992	Golem, the Spirit of Exile	Elimelek	47
36	1993	Golem: The Petrified Garden	Sam	42
37	1993	Anything for John	Self	60
38	1994	Un Américain en Normandie	Himself	0
39	1994	Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made	Self	69
40	1994	Somebody to Love	Sam Silverman	52
41	1996	The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera	Self	64
42	1997	The End of Violence	Louis	53
43	2002	The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller	Self	58
44	2003	Necro not(to b)e	Sé stesso	0
45	2005	The Big Red One : The Reconstruction	War Correspondent (uncredited)	85
46	2005	The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'	Himself (archive footage)	60
47	2006	Edge of Outside	Self (archive footage)	58
48	2006	Filmmakers in Action	Self (archive footage)	68
49	2009	Carmel		70
50	2010	Sodankylä Forever	Self	0
51	2011	Nuits transparentes		0
52	2012	Scene Missing	Self	63
53	2013	A Fuller Life	Self	66

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
2	1989	David Lansky		80

Samuel Fuller

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