Samuel Fuller
Directing
Born August 12, 1912 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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 age 17, working for the New York Evening Graphic. He broke the story of Jeanne Eagels' death. He wrote pulp novels and screenplays from the mid-1930s onwards. Fuller also became a screenplay ghostwriter but would never tell interviewers which screenplays that he ghost-wrote explaining "that's what a ghost writer is for".
Filmography
Films to Die For
(archive footage) (uncredited)
A Fuller Life
Self
Scene Missing
Self
Nuits transparentes
Sodankylä Forever
Self
Carmel
Filmmakers in Action
Self (archive footage)
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
War Correspondent (uncredited)
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
Himself (archive footage)
Necro not(to b)e
Sé stesso
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Self
The End of Violence
Louis
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
Self
Somebody to Love
Sam Silverman
Girls in Prison
Rebel Highway
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
Self
Anything for John
Self
Golem: The Petrified Garden
Sam
Golem, the Spirit of Exile
Elimelek
La Vie de Bohème
Gassot
Where Is Musette?
Self
Shock Corridor
himself
The Madonna and the Dragon
Chef de bureau Newsweek
The Day of Reckoning
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Self
Chillers
Sons
Father
Street of No Return
Police Commissioner
David Lansky
Falkenau, the Impossible
Samuel Fuller
Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
Le capitaine américain
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Boss
A Return to Salem's Lot
Van Meer
The Bleeding Star
The Man in the Bar
Let's Get Harry
Thieves After Dark
Zoltan
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
Self
Slapstick of Another Kind
Colonel Sharp
White Dog
Charlie Felton
Hammett
Old Man in Pool Hall
The State of Things
Joe
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Himself
The Big Red One
War Correspondent (uncredited)
1941
Interceptor Commander
Cinématon
N°602
The Meanest Men in the West
The American Friend
The American
Scott Joplin
Impresario
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
The Klansman
The Deadly Trackers
The Young Nurses
Doc Haskell
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
The Last Movie
Sam
Scene of the Crime
Shark
Targets
The Cape Town Affair
Made in U.S.A
Brigitte and Brigitte
Self
Pierrot le Fou
Samuel Fuller (uncredited)
The Naked Kiss
Shock Corridor
The Virginian
Merrill's Marauders
The Dick Powell Show
Underworld U.S.A.
The Crimson Kimono
Verboten!
Dogface
Forty Guns
Run of the Arrow
China Gate
House of Bamboo
Japanese policeman (uncredited)
The Command
Hell and High Water
Pickup on South Street
Park Row
Scandal Sheet
Fixed Bayonets!
The Tanks Are Coming
The Steel Helmet
The Baron of Arizona
I Shot Jesse James
Shockproof
Gangs of the Waterfront
V-E +1
Margin for Error
Power of the Press
Confirm or Deny
Bowery Boy
Gangs of Chicago
She Married a Cop
Federal Man-Hunt
Adventure in Sahara
Gangs of New York
It Happened in Hollywood
Hats Off