Robert Aldrich

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-08-09 (65 years old)

Deathday

1983-12-05

Place of Birth

Cranston, Rhode Island, USA

Robert Aldrich

Biography

Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Dirty Dozen (1967). Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, the son of Lora Lawson and newspaper publisher Edward Burgess Aldrich. He was a grandson of U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and a cousin of Nelson Rockefeller. He studied economics at the University of Virginia. In 1941, he dropped out of college for a $50-a-week job at RKO Radio Pictures. In doing so, he was also dropped by his family, losing a potential stake in Chase Bank he would have inherited. It's been s...

Acting

1951

The Big Night

as Ringsider at Fight

2020

Production

1967

The Dirty Dozen

as Director

1974

The Longest Yard

as Director

1975

Hustle

as Producer

1975

Hustle

as Director

1981

1970

1970

Too Late the Hero

as Screenplay

1970

1973

1959

1959

Ten Seconds to Hell

as Screenplay

1956

Attack

as Director

1956

Attack

as Producer

1954

Vera Cruz

as Director

1954

World for Ransom

as Director

1954

World for Ransom

as Producer

1972

Ulzana's Raid

as Director

1962

1956

Autumn Leaves

as Director

1954

Apache

as Director

1979

The Frisco Kid

as Director

1961

The Last Sunset

as Director

1963

4 for Texas

as Director

1963

4 for Texas

as Screenplay

1955

The Big Knife

as Director

1955

The Big Knife

as Producer

1955

Kiss Me Deadly

as Director

1977

The Choirboys

as Director

1949

The Red Pony

as Assistant Director

1971

The Grissom Gang

as Director

1959

The Angry Hills

as Director

1953

Big Leaguer

as Director

1952

The Steel Trap

as Production Supervisor

1948

So This Is New York

as Assistant Director

1942

Joan of Paris

as Second Assistant Director

1943

Bombardier

as Second Assistant Director

1950

Force of Evil

as Assistant Director

1959

1951

New Mexico

as Assistant Director

1957

The Ride Back

as Producer

1970

1971

The Grissom Gang

as Producer

1947

Body and Soul

as Assistant Director

1955

Kiss Me Deadly

as Producer

1943

Gangway for Tomorrow

as Second Assistant Director

1949

Caught

as Assistant Director

1963

4 for Texas

as Producer

1947

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

as Assistant Director

1945

Pardon My Past

as Assistant Director

1948

No Minor Vices

as Assistant Director

1952

Limelight

as Assistant Director

1951

The Prowler

as Assistant Director

1951

M

as Assistant Director

1945

The Southerner

as Assistant Director

1942

The Falcon Takes Over

as Second Assistant Director

1942

The Big Street

as Second Assistant Director

1949

Red Light

as Second Unit First Assistant Director

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