Larry Buchanan

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Larry Buchanan (born Marcus Larry Seale Jr.) (January 31, 1923 – December 2, 2004) was a film director, producer and writer, who proclaimed himself a "schlockmeister". Many of his titles have landed on "worst movie" lists, but all at least broke even and many made a profit. Buchanan was born in Mexia, Texas. He was orphaned as a baby, and was raised in Dallas in an orphanage. It was while growing up there that he became fascinated with the movies which were shown in the orphanage's theater. He considered becoming a minister, but visited Hollywood and landed a job in the props department at 20th Century Fox. He made movies for the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II. In the early 1950s, Buchanan began producing, writing, editing and acting in his own movies. The first was The Cowboy in 1951. He is perhaps best known for exploitation, science fiction, and other genre films, including Free, White and 21, High Yellow, The Naked Witch, The Loch Ness Horror, and Mistress of the Apes. Among Buchanan's work, eight direct-to-television films he wrote, produced, and directed under his own Azalea Films production entity in the mid- and late-1960s, for American International Pictures, still generate a good degree of fan adoration. The titles — The Eye Creatures, Zontar, The Thing from Venus, Creature of Destruction, Mars Needs Women, In the Year 2889, Curse of the Swamp Creature, Hell Raiders, and It's Alive! — were largely remakes of AIP films from a decade earlier. Buchanan's instructions from AIP were We want cheap color pictures, we want half-assed names in them, we want them eighty minutes long and we want them now. In 1964, Buchanan created The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, which presented an alternate history in which John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald both survived Kennedy's assassination. In 1984 he produced Down on Us, which charged that the United States government was responsible for the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. Buchanan's autobiography is entitled It Came from Hunger: Tales of a Cinema Schlockmeister. After he died in 2004 in Tucson, a long obituary in the New York Times  summarized his work thus: "One quality united Mr. Buchanan's diverse output: It was not so much that his films were bad; they were deeply, dazzlingly, unrepentantly bad. His work called to mind a famous line from H. L. Mencken, who, describing President Warren G. Harding's prose, said, 'It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.'" Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Buchanan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1921-01-31
  • event Death Date 2004-12-02
  • school Known for: Directing
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  • info Birth Place Lost Prairie, Texas, USA
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A Bullet for Pretty Boy

1970-07-15

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Mars Needs Women

1968-08-24

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Mars Needs Women

1968-08-24

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Mars Needs Women

1968-08-24

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Mars Needs Women

1968-08-24

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Zontar: The Thing from Venus

1967-12-01

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The Eye Creatures

1967-10-20

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The Eye Creatures

1967-10-20

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The Naked Witch

1960-01-01

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The Naked Witch

1960-01-01

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The Naked Witch

1960-01-01

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In the Year 2889

1969-01-19

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In the Year 2889

1969-01-19

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In the Year 2889

1969-01-19

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Curse of the Swamp Creature

1968-02-01

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Curse of the Swamp Creature

1968-02-01

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Down on Us

1984-09-07

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Down on Us

1984-09-07

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It's Alive

1969-10-30

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Creature of Destruction

1967-01-01

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Creature of Destruction

1967-01-01

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It's Alive

1969-10-30

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It's Alive

1969-10-30

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It's Alive

1969-10-30

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Free, White and 21

1963-04-24

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Free, White and 21

1963-04-24

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Free, White and 21

1963-04-24

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Free, White and 21

1963-04-24

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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

1964-04-22

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Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

1989-12-01

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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

1964-04-22

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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

1964-04-22

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Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

1989-12-01

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Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

1989-12-01

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Goodbye, Norma Jean

1976-02-01

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Goodbye, Norma Jean

1976-02-01

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Goodbye, Norma Jean

1976-02-01

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Mistress of the Apes

1979-11-12

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Mistress of the Apes

1979-11-12

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The Loch Ness Horror

1981-01-01

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The Loch Ness Horror

1981-01-01

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The Loch Ness Horror

1981-01-01

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Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

1978-01-01

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Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

1978-01-01

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Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

1978-01-01

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Strawberries Need Rain

1971-04-01

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Hell Raiders

1969-06-01

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Strawberries Need Rain

1971-04-01

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Hell Raiders

1969-06-01

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Strawberries Need Rain

1971-04-01

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Strawberries Need Rain

1971-04-01

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High Yellow

1965-08-04

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High Yellow

1965-08-04

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The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

1968-08-22

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Sex and the Animals

1969-12-17

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Sex and the Animals

1969-12-17

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The Eye Creatures

1967-10-20

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Zontar: The Thing from Venus

1967-12-01

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Zontar: The Thing from Venus

1967-12-01

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Grubstake

1952-01-01

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Grubstake

1952-01-01

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Common Law Wife

1961-07-20

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A Bullet for Pretty Boy

1970-07-15

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A Bullet for Pretty Boy

1970-07-15

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Under Age

1964-03-01

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Under Age

1964-03-01

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Under Age

1964-03-01

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The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

1968-08-22

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Down on Us

1984-09-07

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The Cowboy

1951-12-01

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Comanche Crossing

1968-01-01

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Sam

1967-01-01

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The Cowboy

1951-12-01

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Comanche Crossing

1968-01-01

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Sam

1967-01-01

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Comanche Crossing

1968-01-01

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Comanche Crossing

1968-01-01

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The Cowboy

1951-12-01

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Sam

1967-01-01

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The Cowboy

1951-12-01

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The Cowboy

1951-12-01

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Sam

1967-01-01

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Naughty Dallas

1964-02-19

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Naughty Dallas

1964-02-19

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Naughty Dallas

1964-02-19

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Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

1989-12-01