Directing · b. 1912 · Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Samuel Fuller

Biography

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...

Directed
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction 2005 The Madonna and the Dragon 1990 The Day of Reckoning 1990 Street of No Return 1989 Thieves After Dark 1984 White Dog 1982 The Big Red One 1980 The Meanest Men in the West 1978 Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street 1972 Shark 1969 The Naked Kiss 1964 Shock Corridor 1963 Merrill's Marauders 1962 Underworld U.S.A. 1961 The Crimson Kimono 1959 Verboten! 1959 Dogface 1959 Run of the Arrow 1957 Forty Guns 1957 China Gate 1957 House of Bamboo 1955 Hell and High Water 1954 Pickup on South Street 1953 Park Row 1952 Fixed Bayonets! 1951 The Steel Helmet 1951 The Baron of Arizona 1950 I Shot Jesse James 1949 V-E +1 1945
Acting
Films to Die For (archive footage) (uncredited) 2025 Scene Missing Self 2012 Nuits transparentes 2011 Sodankylä Forever Self 2010 Carmel 2009 Filmmakers in Action Self (archive footage) 2006 The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One' Himself (archive footage) 2005 Necro not(to b)e Sé stesso 2003 The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller Self 2002 The End of Violence Louis 1997 The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera Self 1996 Un Américain en Normandie Himself 1994 Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made Self 1994 Somebody to Love Sam Silverman 1994 Anything for John Self 1993 Golem: The Petrified Garden Sam 1993 La Vie de Bohème Gassot 1992 Golem, the Spirit of Exile Elimelek 1992 Where Is Musette? Self 1992 Shock Corridor himself 1992 Sons Father 1990 Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders Self 1990 Tell me Sam - Encounters with Sam Fuller Himself 1989 Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire Le capitaine américain 1988 Falkenau, the Impossible Samuel Fuller 1988 A Return to Salem's Lot Van Meer 1987 Helsinki Napoli All Night Long Boss 1987 Midnight Sun Film Festival 1987 The Bleeding Star The Man in the Bar 1987 A Travelling is a Moral Affair Himself 1986
Other Credits
A Fuller Life Book 2013 Girls in Prison Writer 1994 Let's Get Harry Story 1986 The Klansman Screenplay 1974 The Deadly Trackers Story 1973 Targets Screenplay 1968 The Cape Town Affair Writer 1967 Made in U.S.A Thanks 1967 The Command Writer 1954 Scandal Sheet Novel 1952 The Tanks Are Coming Story 1951 Shockproof Writer 1949 Gangs of the Waterfront Story 1945 Margin for Error Screenplay 1943 Power of the Press Story 1943 Confirm or Deny Story 1941 Bowery Boy Original Story 1940 Gangs of Chicago Screenplay 1940 She Married a Cop Writer 1939 Federal Man-Hunt Story 1938
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