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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". During World War II, Fuller joined the United States Army infantry. He was assigned to the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, and saw heavy fighting. He was involved in landings in Africa, Sicily, and Normandy and also saw action in Belgium and Czechoslovakia. In 1945 he was present at the liberation of the German concentration camp at Falkenau and shot 16 mm footage which was used later in the documentary Falkenau: The Impossible. For his service, he was awarded the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, and the Purple Heart. Fuller used his wartime experiences as material in his films, especially in The Big Red One (1980), a nickname of the 1st Infantry Division. After his controversial film "White Dog" was shelved by Paramount pictures, Fuller moved to France, and never directed another American film. Fuller eventually returned to America. He died of natural causes in his California home. In November 1997, the Directors Guild held a three hour memorial in his honor, hosted by Curtis Hanson, his long time friend and co-writer on White Dog. He was survived by his wife Christa and daughter Samantha.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1912-08-12
- event Death Date 1997-10-30
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 5.8
- info Birth Place Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Samuel Fuller
7.4
Pierrot le Fou
1965-11-05
0
Un Américain en Normandie
1994-01-01
6.5
The State of Things
1982-03-22
7.2
The American Friend
1977-06-24
6
A Return to Salem's Lot
1987-09-11
7.5
La Vie de Bohème
1992-02-27
5.3
The End of Violence
1997-09-12
6.7
The Big Red One
1980-01-22
6.9
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
1994-03-25
6.2
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
1996-06-28
6
Anything for John
1993-09-06
0
Report from Hollywood
1985-01-01
8.6
The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
2005-05-03
6.1
Brigitte and Brigitte
1966-12-17
6.6
A Fuller Life
2013-08-28
6
The Madonna and the Dragon
1990-09-01
6.7
White Dog
1982-07-07
0
Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
1988-09-08
5.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002-07-02
6
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
2005-05-03
7
Falkenau, the Impossible
1988-10-05
5.7
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987-11-13
7.9
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
1995-05-21
5.8
Edge of Outside
2006-06-11
4.2
Golem: The Petrified Garden
1993-01-01
6.1
House of Bamboo
1955-07-01
4.7
Golem, l'esprit de l'exil
1992-09-24
4.2
The Young Nurses
1973-03-01
0
Where Is Musette?
1992-01-01
5.5
Street of No Return
1989-05-17
4.7
Thieves After Dark
1984-02-27
7
Carmel
2009-07-12
0
Shock Corridor
1992-01-01
6.2
Hammett
1982-06-09
5.6
The Last Movie
1971-09-29
0
A Travelling is a Moral Affair
1986-01-01
2.7
Slapstick of Another Kind
1982-12-09
0
Cinéastes de notre temps : Samuel Fuller
1967-09-30
8
Sons
1990-01-01
6.8
Filmmakers in Action
2006-09-15
0
Hooray For Holyrood
1986-08-13
0
Midnight Sun Film Festival
1987-01-01
0
Nuits transparentes
2011-04-14
6.3
Scene Missing
2012-01-01
0
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
1984-02-04
4.3
Cinématon
1978-12-20
0
Tell me Sam - Encounters with Sam Fuller
1989-01-09
0
The Bleeding Star
1987-01-01
0
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990-04-25
0
Sodankylä Forever
2010-08-05
5.8
1941
1979-12-14
6
Scott Joplin
1977-02-11
5.2
Somebody to Love
1994-09-27
6
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975-01-12
0
David Lansky
1989-04-30
movie_edit Directing
0
House of Bamboo
1955-07-01
0
Shark
1969-10-08
0
Hell and High Water
1954-02-06
0
Hell and High Water
1954-02-06
0
Gangs of New York
1938-05-23
0
Gangs of New York
1938-05-23
0
Shockproof
1949-01-25
0
Pickup on South Street
1953-05-27
0
Pickup on South Street
1953-05-27
0
Scandal Sheet
1952-01-16
0
The Naked Kiss
1964-10-29
0
The Naked Kiss
1964-10-29
0
The Naked Kiss
1964-10-29
0
Park Row
1952-09-01
0
Park Row
1952-09-01
0
Park Row
1952-09-01
0
The Crimson Kimono
1959-10-21
0
The Crimson Kimono
1959-10-21
0
The Crimson Kimono
1959-10-21
0
Shock Corridor
1963-09-25
0
Run of the Arrow
1957-09-05
0
Run of the Arrow
1957-09-05
0
Merrill's Marauders
1962-03-16
0
Merrill's Marauders
1962-03-16
0
Underworld U.S.A.
1961-02-22
0
Underworld U.S.A.
1961-02-22
0
Underworld U.S.A.
1961-02-22
0
I Shot Jesse James
1949-02-26
0
I Shot Jesse James
1949-02-26
0
Girls in Prison
1994-08-19
0
Margin for Error
1943-02-10
0
The Cape Town Affair
1967-09-19
0
Forty Guns
1957-09-10
0
Forty Guns
1957-09-10
0
The Baron of Arizona
1950-03-04
0
The Baron of Arizona
1950-03-04
0
The Big Red One
1980-01-22
0
The Big Red One
1980-01-22
0
The Steel Helmet
1951-01-24
0
The Steel Helmet
1951-01-24
0
Fixed Bayonets!
1951-11-21
0
The Steel Helmet
1951-01-24
0
Fixed Bayonets!
1951-11-21
0
White Dog
1982-07-07
0
White Dog
1982-07-07
0
Street of No Return
1989-05-17
0
Verboten!
1959-03-25
0
Verboten!
1959-03-25
0
The Klansman
1974-10-25
0
Power of the Press
1943-01-29
0
China Gate
1957-05-22
0
The Command
1954-02-13
0
Gangs of the Waterfront
1945-07-03
0
The Meanest Men in the West
1978-05-04
0
Thieves After Dark
1984-02-27
0
Thieves After Dark
1984-02-27
0
Bowery Boy
1940-12-28
0
The Madonna and the Dragon
1990-09-01
0
The Madonna and the Dragon
1990-09-01
0
Federal Man-Hunt
1938-12-27
0
Forty Guns
1957-09-10
0
Shock Corridor
1963-09-25
0
Shock Corridor
1963-09-25
0
V-E +1
1945-05-06
0
China Gate
1957-05-22
0
Adventure in Sahara
1938-11-15
0
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
1972-11-17
0
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
1972-11-17
0
Gangs of Chicago
1940-05-18
0
The Tanks Are Coming
1951-10-31
0
The Deadly Trackers
1973-12-21
0
Street of No Return
1989-05-17
0
Street of No Return
1989-05-17
0
Run of the Arrow
1957-09-05
0
Hats Off
1936-12-05
0
Hats Off
1936-12-05
0
She Married a Cop
1939-07-11
0
Confirm or Deny
1941-12-12
0
Made in U.S.A
1967-01-27
0
Shark
1969-10-08
0
It Happened in Hollywood
1937-09-07
0
Dogface
1959-01-01
0
Dogface
1959-01-01
0
Dogface
1959-01-01
0
The Meanest Men in the West
1978-05-04
0
The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
2005-05-03
0
The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
2005-05-03
0
China Gate
1957-05-22
0
House of Bamboo
1955-07-01
0
A Fuller Life
2013-08-28
0
Targets
1968-08-15
0
Let's Get Harry
1986-10-31
0
The Day of Reckoning
1990-05-04
0
The Day of Reckoning
1990-05-04
0
The Dick Powell Show
1961-09-26
0
The Virginian
1962-09-19
0
The Virginian
1962-09-19
0
Scene of the Crime
1970-11-29
0
Scene of the Crime
1970-11-29
0
Chillers
1990-04-14
0
Chillers
1990-04-14