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- Aldrich died of kidney failure on December 5, 1983 in a Los Angeles hospital.
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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.
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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Robert Aldrich. Director: Emperor of the North. Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an associate producer.
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- World for Ransom (1954) Singapore. A kidnapped scientist – “One of the few men on earth with the secret of the atomic bomb” – on sale to the highest bidder, western or commie.
- Apache (1954) The first of many battles waged along ideological lines to be found in the Aldrich canon, Apache remains one of the most complex interrogations of Native American integration to be found in the western genre.
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) That opening. A woman in the middle of the road – hysterical, fresh out the “laughing house”. Her gasping for breath as the credits roll backwards.
- Autumn Leaves (1956) Women aren’t a common fixture in Aldrich’s cinema. When they do take centre-stage, as in his trio of 60s pictures, they’re characterised as grotesques.
Robert Aldrich. Director: Emperor of the North. Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an associate producer.
Apr 30, 2021 · Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich? In casting Joan Crawford in Autumn Leaves , Aldrich sought to prove that he was as capable of producing glossy melodramas with a simmering subtext as Douglas Sirk.
A sports injury led to a discharge from the U.S. Air Force at the start of World War II—a move that had a profound impact on Aldrich's Hollywood career, which began with a lowly production clerk job at RKO Studios where Orson Welles was making Citizen Kane (1941).
