Joe Dante

Joseph James Dante Jr. (born November 28, 1946) is an American filmmaker, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)—often mix the 1950s-style B movie genre with 1960s radicalism and cartoon comedy. Dante's output includes the films Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1989), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998), and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). His work for television and cable include the social satire The Second Civil War (1997), episodes of the anthology series Masters of Horror ("Homecoming" and "The Screwfly Solution") and Amazing Stories, as well as Police Squad! and Hawaii Five-0. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Dante, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Directing

Born: Morristown, New Jersey, USA, 1946-11-28

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1976	Hollywood Boulevard	Party Waiter (uncredited)	57
2	1976	Cannonball	Kid	55
3	1978	Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel	Self	74
4	1978	Piranha	Scuba Diver #2 (uncredited)	59
5	1981	Making a Monster Movie: Inside 'the Howling'	Self	0
6	1986	The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal	Self	75
7	1987	Innerspace	Vectorscope Employee (uncredited)	68
8	1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Grandpa Fred Director (uncredited)	65
9	1992	Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion	Himself	69
10	1992	The Magical World of Chuck Jones	Self	80
11	1994	The Silence of the Hams	Dying Man	49
12	1994	Beverly Hills Cop III	Jailer	59
13	1994	Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror	Self	74
14	1997	Hollywood Rated 'R'	Self	51
15	1999	She's Alive! Creating 'The Bride of Frankenstein'	Self / Host	75
16	1999	Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs	Self	70
17	2001	It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures	Self	68
18	2001	Making The Earth Stand Still	Self	0
19	2002	Cinerama Adventure	Self	76
20	2004	Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen	Self	68
21	2004	Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz	Self	0
22	2005	Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy		94
23	2005	RKO Production 601: The Making of 'Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World'	Self	100
24	2006	Hitchcocked!	Self	0
25	2006	Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon	Self	70
26	2007	Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman	Self	90
27	2007	The Return of the Living Dead: The Decade of Darkness	Self	60
28	2008	Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX	Self	70
29	2009	Monsterland	Self	65
30	2009	Direct Your Own Damn Movie!	Self	50
31	2009	Nightmares in Red, White and Blue	Self	66
32	2010	The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth	Self	70
33	2010	Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.	Self	70
34	2011	American Grindhouse	Himself	67
35	2012	The Butterfly Room	Cab Driver	58
36	2012	The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie	Self	0
37	2012	Trailer War	Himself	74
38	2013	Blast Vegas	Salesman #2	36
39	2014	That Guy Dick Miller	Self	70
40	2014	We Come In Pieces: The Rebirth of the Horror Anthology Film	Self	0
41	2014	Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror	Self - Director	60
42	2014	Out of Print	Self	57
43	2014	There Goes the Neighborhood: The Making of The 'Burbs	Self	41
44	2015	42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street	Himself	78
45	2015	Tales of Halloween	Prof. Milo Gottlieb	58
46	2016	24×36	Self	70
47	2017	Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur	Self	0
48	2018	The Fear is Real	Self	0
49	2020	Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!	Himself (archive footage)	80
50	2021	Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema	Self	60
51	2021	Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida	Self [archival]	70
52	2022	Soylent Green and Red Alert: When Reality Catches Up with Fiction	Self	72
53	2022	Razzennest	Joe Dante	58
54	2022	Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story	Self - Interviewee	100
55	2022	In Search of Darkness: Part III	Self	75
56	2024	The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee	Self	77
57	2024	Sharksploitation	Self	0
58		The Creeps		0
59		Mary Woronov: Cult Queen		0
60		The Reality Trip	self	0
61	1975	Tidal Wave		0
62	1982	Eating Raoul	Busboy (uncredited)	65
63	1991	Oscar	Face on the Cutting Room Floor	63
64	1992	Sleepwalkers	Lab Assistant	60
65	1994	A Century of Cinema	Self	80
66	2000	Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre	Self	59
67	2000	Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation	Self	68
68	2003	Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’		0
69	2004	Welcome to Werewolfland		0
70	2004	Mario Bava: Operazione paura	Self	60
71	2005	Behind the Tunes: Tish Tash - The Animated World of Frank Tashlin	Himself	0
72	2005	Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go to War!	Himself	70
73	2005	Behind the Tunes: Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and White	Himself	70
74	2005	The Perfect Scary Movie	Self	75
75	2006	Karloff: The Gentle Monster	Self	80
76	2006	Lugosi: The Dark Prince	Self	80
77	2006	Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet	Self	45
78	2007	The Hatching of Spider Baby	Himself	0
79	2007	Spider Stravinsky: The Cinema Sounds of Ronald Stein	Himself	95
80	2007	Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story	Self	78
81	2009	Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer	Self	65
82	2009	Fulci in the House: The Italian Master of Splatter	Himself	0
83	2010	The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry	Self	60
84	2010	Machete Maidens Unleashed!	Self	68
85	2010	The Bloodiest Show on Earth: Making Vampire Circus	Self	0
86	2011	Produce Your Own Damn Movie!	Self	0
87	2011	The Future of Fear	Self	0
88	2011	A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!	Self - Interviewee	81
89	2011	Corman's World	Self - Filmmaker	71
90	2012	To Be... A Film Favorite		0
91	2012	The Flesh and the Fury: X-posing Twins of Evil		43
92	2012	Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan	Self	75
93	2013	A Fuller Life	Self - Reader (segment "Sicily Black and Blue")	66
94	2013	House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!	Self	0
95	2014	From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures	Self	70
96	2014	Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins	Self	70
97	2015	Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film		73
98	2015	Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex	Self	72
99	2016	Unspeakable Horrors: The Plan 9 Conspiracy	Himself	0
100	2016	Long Live the King	himself	52
101	2018	Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years	Self	74
102	2018	King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen	Self	66
103	2018	Sad Hill Unearthed	Self - Filmmaker	69
104	2019	Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film	Self	68
105	2019	In Search of Darkness	Self	78
106	2019	Love, Antosha	Self	73
107	2019	Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters	Self	74
108	2019	Mark of The Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf	Self	0
109	2019	Class of '79: 40 Years of Rock 'N' Roll High School		0
110	2020	Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness	Host	68
111	2020	Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi	Host	64
112	2020	Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp	Host	68
113	2020	Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies	Self	66
114	2020	In Search of Darkness: Part II	Self	78
115	2020	Tales of the Uncanny	Self	71
116	2021	Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster	Self	80
117	2022	In Search of Tomorrow	Self - Interviewee	65
118	2024	Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters	Self	0
119		Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director	Himself	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Great Performances	Self	54
2	1991	Eerie, Indiana	Director	75
3	2004	Leçon de Cinéma	Self	70
4	2004	100 Scariest Movie Moments	Self	80
5	2014	The Real History of Science Fiction	Himself	69
6	2018	Eli Roth's History of Horror	Self	65
7	2022	Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow		60
8	2022	The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time	Self	68