Matt Cimber

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-12-01 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

-

Matt Cimber

Biography

Writer, director and producer Matt Cimber was born as Matteo Ottaviano in 1936 and began his career in the early 60s directing off-Broadway plays including works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams and the US premieres of the Jean Cocteau trilogy. During his theater years, Cimber rewrote Burning Bright with John Steinbeck which introduced Sandy Dennis who went on to win an Academy Award for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) . Cimber then directed the Broadway revival of Bus Stop, where he met future wife Jayne Mansfield. Matt made his cinematic directorial debut with the offbeat Single Room Furnished (1966), which was also Mansfie...

Acting

1982

Fake-Out

as Hit Man #2

1975

Lady Cocoa

as Arthur (as Gary Harper)

2016

Production

1982

Butterfly

as Adaptation

1982

Butterfly

as Director

1982

Butterfly

as Screenplay

1972

Mondo Hunt

as Director

1983

Hundra

as Director

1975

Lady Cocoa

as Director

1973

The Black Six

as Director

1982

Butterfly

as Producer

1982

Fake-Out

as Director

2006

Miriam

as Director

1983

Hundra

as Writer

1983

Hundra

as Story

1982

A Time to Die

as Screenplay

1972

He & She

as Co-Producer

1982

Fake-Out

as Screenplay

1971

Calliope

as Director

1971

Sex & Astrology

as Producer

1982

A Time to Die

as Director

1973

1968

1972

He & She

as Director

1975

Gemini Affair

as Director

1975

Lady Cocoa

as Producer

1978

Tiger Man

as Director

1978

Tiger Man

as Screenplay

1968

1971

Sex & Astrology

as Director

1975

Alias Big Cherry

as Director

1990

1975

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