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Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur [1] working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed mainly films noir, war movies, westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones.
Directed five different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Victor Buono, Bette Davis, Agnes Moorehead, Ian Bannen and John Cassavetes. Quotes A director is a ringmaster, a psychiatrist and a referee.
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Robert Aldrich, American director who earned his reputation with realistic and socially conscious films that were often marked by violence. His notable movies included the classics What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). Learn more about Aldrich’s life and career.
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Apr 2, 2017 · Pauline Jameson – the capable assistant to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? director Robert Aldrich who harbors ambitions to become a screenwriter and filmmaker herself – is not to be confused...
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Directed five different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Victor Buono , Bette Davis, Agnes Moorehead, Ian Bannen and John Cassavetes. Two of Aldrich's movies-- Vera Cruz (1954) and Kiss Me Deadly (1955) --are considered to be among the most influential films of the 1950s.
Apr 30, 2021 · In December 1951, Irving Allen and Albert Broccoli (the future producer of the James Bond franchise) formed Warwick Productions and announced that Aldrich would direct its first outing, The Gamma People, with Dick Powell.
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In 1967 Aldrich changed the very landscape of action filmmaking with his mega-hit THE DIRTY DOZEN. By this time Aldrich’s cynicism had become a mainstream commodity, so when his ‘heroes’ acted just as brutally as his Mike Hammer had in KISS ME DEADLY, no one took any unusual notice, except to cheer more loudly.
