Samuel Fuller

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-08-12 (85 years old)

Deathday

1997-10-30

Place of Birth

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Samuel Fuller

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1965

Pierrot le Fou

as Samuel Fuller (uncredited)

1977

The American Friend

as The American

1992

1980

The Big Red One

as War Correspondent (uncredited)

2005

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

as War Correspondent (uncredited)

2013

1990

The Madonna and the Dragon

as Chef de bureau Newsweek

1982

White Dog

as Charlie Felton

1988

Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire

as Le capitaine américain

2005

1988

Falkenau, the Impossible

as Samuel Fuller

2006

Edge of Outside

as Self (archive footage)

1955

House of Bamboo

as Japanese policeman (uncredited)

1973

The Young Nurses

as Doc Haskell

1984

1989

Street of No Return

as Police Commissioner

2009

1992

Shock Corridor

as himself

1982

Hammett

as Old Man in Pool Hall

1971

1982

1990

Sons

as Father

2006

Filmmakers in Action

as Self (archive footage)

2012

1978

Cinématon

as N°602

1979

1941

as Interceptor Commander

1977

Scott Joplin

as Impresario

1994

Somebody to Love

as Sam Silverman

2003

Necro not(to b)e

as Sé stesso

Production

1955

House of Bamboo

as Director

1969

Shark

as Director

1954

1954

Hell and High Water

as Screenplay

1938

1938

Gangs of New York

as Screenplay

1949

Shockproof

as Writer

1953

1953

1952

1964

The Naked Kiss

as Director

1964

1964

The Naked Kiss

as Producer

1952

Park Row

as Writer

1952

Park Row

as Director

1952

Park Row

as Producer

1959

1959

1959

1963

Shock Corridor

as Director

1957

Run of the Arrow

as Director

1957

1962

1962

Merrill's Marauders

as Screenplay

1961

1961

1961

1949

1949

1994

1943

Margin for Error

as Screenplay

1957

Forty Guns

as Director

1957

Forty Guns

as Screenplay

1950

1980

The Big Red One

as Director

1980

1951

The Steel Helmet

as Director

1951

1951

The Steel Helmet

as Producer

1951

Fixed Bayonets!

as Director

1951

Fixed Bayonets!

as Screenplay

1982

White Dog

as Director

1982

White Dog

as Screenplay

1989

1959

Verboten!

as Director

1959

Verboten!

as Writer

1974

The Klansman

as Screenplay

1943

1957

China Gate

as Director

1954

The Command

as Writer

1984

1984

1940

Bowery Boy

as Original Story

1938

1957

Forty Guns

as Producer

1963

Shock Corridor

as Screenplay

1963

Shock Corridor

as Producer

1945

V-E +1

as Director

1957

China Gate

as Screenplay

1940

Gangs of Chicago

as Screenplay

1989

Street of No Return

as Screenplay

1989

1957

Run of the Arrow

as Producer

1936

Hats Off

as Screenplay

1936

Hats Off

as Story

1939

1941

1967

Made in U.S.A

as Thanks

1969

Shark

as Screenplay

1937

1959

Dogface

as Director

1959

Dogface

as Writer

1959

Dogface

as Producer

1957

China Gate

as Producer

1955

House of Bamboo

as Additional Dialogue

2013

1968

Targets

as Screenplay

1986

1990

1990

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