Monte Hellman
Directing
Born July 12, 1929 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Monte Hellman (born Monte Jay Himmelbaum; July 12, 1929 — April 20, 2021) was an American film director, producer, writer, and editor. He was born in New York City, where his parents were visiting, but he grew up in Los Angeles.Hellman began his career as an editor's apprentice at ABC TV, and made his directorial debut with the horror film "Beast from Haunted Cave" (1959), produced by Roger Corman. He would later gain critical recognition for the Westerns "The Shooting" and "Ride in the Whirlwind" (both 1966) starring Jack Nicholson, and the independent road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop" (1971) starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. His later directorial work included the slasher film "Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!" (1989) and the independent thriller "Road to Nowhere" (2010).
Filmography
A Fuller Life
Self - Reader (segment "Vision of the Impossible")
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Strutter
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
Self
Godard Made in USA
Self
Road to Nowhere
Make it Three Yards: A Conversation with James Taylor
Self
Somewhere Near Salinas: A Conversation with Kris Kristofferson
On the Road Again: 'Two-Lane Blacktop' Revisited
Sure Did Talk to You: A Conversation with Walter Coblenz, Jared Hellman and Michael Laughlin
Trapped Ashes
Wanderlust
Himself
Reservoir Dogs Revisited
Self
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
L.A. Without a Map
Himself
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Self
To Have and to Hold
Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
Self
Love, Cheat & Steal
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Self
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Self
Grey Knight
Reservoir Dogs
Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!
Iguana
Someone to Love
Attendee / Richard
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Self
Plunging On Alone: Monte Hellman's Life in a Day
Himself
Room 666
Self
Inside the Coppola Personality
The Big Red One
Avalanche Express
An Almost Perfect Affair
Monte Hellman on Filmfestival in Cannes
China 9, Liberty 37
Sudden Death
The Killer Elite
Shatter
Cockfighter
The Christian Licorice Store
Joseph
Two-Lane Blacktop
Target: Harry
Head
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Ride in the Whirlwind
The Wild Angels
The Shooting
Bus Riley's Back in Town
Back Door to Hell
Cordillera
Flight to Fury
The Terror
The Wild Ride
Beast from Haunted Cave