Al Adamson

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-07-25 (66 years old)

Deathday

1995-06-21

Place of Birth

Hollywood, California, USA

Al Adamson

Biography

Al Adamson (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was a prolific director of B-grade horror films throughout the 1960s and 1970s. After assisting his father, Victor Adamson, in making the 1963 movie Halfway to Hell, Adamson decided to work in the motion picture industry himself. Three years later, he and Sam Sherman founded Independent-International Pictures, which became the vehicle for the many movies he directed. Among them are Psycho-A-Go-Go (later worked into Blood of Ghastly Horror), Satan's Sadists, Horror of the Blood Monsters, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, and Five Bloody Graves. After Adamson was reported missing for five weeks in 1995, afte...

Acting

1960

1970

Horror of the Blood Monsters

as Earthly Vampire (uncredited)

1965

Psycho a Go-Go

as Travis (uncredited)

1976

Black Heat

as Uncredited

Production

1978

1978

Death Dimension

as Director

1971

The Female Bunch

as Director

1965

Psycho a Go-Go

as Producer

1965

Psycho a Go-Go

as Director

1970

1983

Carnival Magic

as Director

1970

1977

Cinderella 2000

as Producer

1974

Girls for Rent

as Director

1975

1977

Cinderella 2000

as Director

1960

Half Way to Hell

as Producer

1960

Half Way to Hell

as Screenstory

1971

Brain of Blood

as Producer

1971

Brain of Blood

as Director

1976

Black Heat

as Director

1969

Satan's Sadists

as Director

1976

Black Samurai

as Director

1974

1969

1969

1974

Mean Mother

as Director

1972

1972

1978

Doctor Dracula

as Director

1978

1978

Nurse Sherri

as Director

1973

Cry Rape

as Producer

1972

Hammer

as Producer

1969

Satan's Sadists

as Producer

1978

Sunset Cove

as Director

1971

1975

Jessi's Girls

as Director

1972

Lash of Lust

as Director

1983

Lost

as Director

1972

Doomsday Voyage

as Producer

1965

1960

Half Way to Hell

as Director

1971

Nurses for Sale

as Director

1976

Black Heat

as Producer

1976

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