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-'''Samuel Michael Fuller''' ([[August 12]] [[1912]] – [[October 30]] [[1997]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[film director]], noted for films such as ''[[Shock Corridor]]'' and ''[[The Naked Kiss]]''.+'''Samuel Michael Fuller''' (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American [[screenwriter]], [[novelist]], and [[film director]] known for low-budget, understated [[B movie|genre movies]] with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. Fuller wrote his first screenplay for ''[[Hats Off (1936 film)|Hats Off]]'' in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western ''[[I Shot Jesse James]]'' (1949). He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s.
-Born in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], the son of Benjamin Rabinovitch (a [[Jewish]] [[immigrant]] from [[Russia]]) and Rebecca Baum (a [[Jewish]] [[immigrant]] from [[Poland]]). At the time of Samuel's birth, the family had already changed their [[surname]] to "Fuller". Fuller began, at the age of 12, in the field of [[journalism]]. His first [[newspaper]] job was as a copyboy. He became a crime [[reporter]] in [[New York City]] at age 17, working for the ''[[New York Evening Graphic]]''. His biggest [[scoop]] came when he broke the story of the death of [[Jeanne Eagels]]. He wrote [[Pulp magazine|pulp]] [[novels]] and [[screenplays]] from the mid-30s onwards.{{GFDL}}+Fuller shifted from Westerns and war thrillers in the 1960s with his low-budget thriller ''[[Shock Corridor]]'' in 1963, followed by the [[neo-noir]] ''[[The Naked Kiss]]'' (1964). He was inactive in filmmaking for most of the 1970s, before writing and directing the war epic ''[[The Big Red One]]'' (1980), and the experimental ''[[White Dog]]'' (1982), whose screenplay he co-wrote with [[Curtis Hanson]].
 + 
 +== Filmography ==
 +{| class="wikitable sortable"
 +!Year
 +!Name
 +![[Film director|Director]]
 +![[Screenwriter]]
 +!class="unsortable" | Notes
 +|-
 +| 1936
 +|''[[Hats Off (1936 film)|Hats Off]]''
 +|
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Co-written with Edmund Joseph with additional dialogue by Thiele Lawrence. Directed by Boris Petroff.
 +|-
 +| 1937
 +|''[[It Happened in Hollywood]]''
 +|
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Co-written with [[Ethel Hill]], [[Harvey Fergusson]] and Myles Connolly. Directed by [[Harry Lachman]].
 +|-
 +| rowspan="3"|1938
 +|''[[Adventure in Sahara]]''
 +|
 +|
 +|Story credit; screenplay by [[Maxwell Shane]].
 +|-
 +|''[[Federal Man-Hunt]]''
 +|
 +|
 +|Story credit with William Lively; screenplay by [[Maxwell Shane]].
 +|-
 +|''[[Gangs of New York (1938 film)|Gangs of New York]]''
 +|
 +|
 +|Story credit; based on the book by [[Herbert Asbury]].
 +|-
 +| 1940
 +|''[[Bowery Boy]]''
 +|
 +|
 +|Story credit with [[Sid Sutherland]].
 +|-
 +| 1941
 +|''[[Confirm or Deny]]''
 +|
 +|
 +|Story credit with Henry Wales; screenplay by [[Jo Swerling]].
 +|-
 +| rowspan="2"|1943
 +|''[[Margin for Error]]''
 +|
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Uncredited; screenplay by [[Lillie Hayward]] based on the play by [[Clare Boothe Luce]].
 +|-
 +|''[[Power of the Press (film)|Power of the Press]]''
 +|
 +|
 +|Story credit.
 +|-
 +| 1945
 +|''[[Gangs of the Waterfront]]''
 +|
 +|
 +|Story credit; screenplay by Albert Beich.
 +|-
 +| rowspan="2"|1949
 +|''[[I Shot Jesse James]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Based on the article by [[Homer Croy]].
 +|-
 +|''[[Shockproof]]''
 +|
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Co-written by Helen Deutsch; directed by [[Douglas Sirk]].
 +|-
 +| 1950
 +|''[[The Baron of Arizona]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +| rowspan="2"|1951
 +|''[[The Steel Helmet]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +|''[[Fixed Bayonets!]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Based on the novel by [[John Brophy (writer)|John Brophy]].
 +|-
 +| rowspan="2"|1952
 +|''[[Park Row (film)|Park Row]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +|''[[Scandal Sheet (1952 film)|Scandal Sheet]]''
 +|
 +|
 +|Based upon Fuller's novel ''[[The Dark Page]]''; co-written by Eugene Ling, James Poe and [[Ted Sherdeman]].
 +|-
 +| 1953
 +|''[[Pickup on South Street]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Story by Dwight Taylor.
 +|-
 +| 1954
 +|''[[Hell and High Water (1954 film)|Hell and High Water]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Co-written with [[David Hempstead]] and [[Jesse L. Lasky, Jr.]].
 +|-
 +| 1955
 +|''[[House of Bamboo]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Co-written with [[Harry Kleiner]]
 +|-
 +| rowspan="3"|1957
 +|''[[China Gate (1957 film)|China Gate]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +|''[[Run of the Arrow]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +|''[[Forty Guns]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +| rowspan="3"|1959
 +|''Dog Face''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Unaired TV pilot.
 +|-
 +|''[[Verboten!]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +|''[[The Crimson Kimono]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +| 1960
 +|''Burnett's Woman''
 +|
 +|
 +|Story credit; teleplay by Larry Welch.
 +|-
 +| 1961
 +|''[[Underworld U.S.A.]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Based on articles by [[Joseph F. Dinneen]].
 +|-
 +| 1962
 +|''[[Merrill's Marauders (film)|Merrill's Marauders]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Co-written with [[Milton Sperling]].
 +|-
 +| 1963
 +|''[[Shock Corridor]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +| 1964
 +|''[[The Naked Kiss]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +| 1967
 +|''[[The Cape Town Affair]]''
 +|
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Co-written with [[Dwight Taylor (writer)|Dwight Taylor]] and Harold Medford.
 +|-
 +| 1968
 +|''[[Targets]]''
 +|
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Uncredited; co-written with [[Polly Platt]] and [[Peter Bogdanovich]]. Directed by Bogdanovich and produced by [[Roger Corman]].
 +|-
 +| 1969
 +|''[[Shark!]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Co-written with John Kingsbridge.
 +|-
 +| 1973
 +|''[[Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Television film for the German crime series ''[[Tatort]]''.
 +|-
 +| 1973
 +|''[[The Deadly Trackers]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Uncredited; based on Fuller's story "Riata".
 +|-
 +| 1974
 +|''[[The Klansman]]''
 +|
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Co-written with [[Millard Kaufman]].
 +|-
 +| 1980
 +|''[[The Big Red One]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +| 1982
 +|''[[White Dog]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Co-written with [[Curtis Hanson]].
 +|-
 +| 1984
 +|''[[Thieves After Dark]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +| 1986
 +|''[[Let's Get Harry]]''
 +|
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Story credit with Mark Feldberg; screenplay by Charles Robert Carner.
 +|-
 +| 1989
 +|''[[Street of No Return]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +| 1990
 +|''[[The Madonna and the Dragon]]''
 +|{{yes}}
 +|{{yes}}
 +|
 +|-
 +| 1994
 +|''[[Girls in Prison (1994 film)|Girls in Prison]]''
 +|
 +|{{yes}}
 +|Directed by [[John McNaughton]]. Co-written with [[Christa Lang]].
 +|}
 + 
 +{{GFDL}}

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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, understated genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. Fuller wrote his first screenplay for Hats Off in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western I Shot Jesse James (1949). He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s.

Fuller shifted from Westerns and war thrillers in the 1960s with his low-budget thriller Shock Corridor in 1963, followed by the neo-noir The Naked Kiss (1964). He was inactive in filmmaking for most of the 1970s, before writing and directing the war epic The Big Red One (1980), and the experimental White Dog (1982), whose screenplay he co-wrote with Curtis Hanson.

Filmography

Year Name Director Screenwriter Notes
1936 Hats Off Template:Yes Co-written with Edmund Joseph with additional dialogue by Thiele Lawrence. Directed by Boris Petroff.
1937 It Happened in Hollywood Template:Yes Co-written with Ethel Hill, Harvey Fergusson and Myles Connolly. Directed by Harry Lachman.
1938 Adventure in Sahara Story credit; screenplay by Maxwell Shane.
Federal Man-Hunt Story credit with William Lively; screenplay by Maxwell Shane.
Gangs of New York Story credit; based on the book by Herbert Asbury.
1940 Bowery Boy Story credit with Sid Sutherland.
1941 Confirm or Deny Story credit with Henry Wales; screenplay by Jo Swerling.
1943 Margin for Error Template:Yes Uncredited; screenplay by Lillie Hayward based on the play by Clare Boothe Luce.
Power of the Press Story credit.
1945 Gangs of the Waterfront Story credit; screenplay by Albert Beich.
1949 I Shot Jesse James Template:Yes Template:Yes Based on the article by Homer Croy.
Shockproof Template:Yes Co-written by Helen Deutsch; directed by Douglas Sirk.
1950 The Baron of Arizona Template:Yes Template:Yes
1951 The Steel Helmet Template:Yes Template:Yes
Fixed Bayonets! Template:Yes Template:Yes Based on the novel by John Brophy.
1952 Park Row Template:Yes Template:Yes
Scandal Sheet Based upon Fuller's novel The Dark Page; co-written by Eugene Ling, James Poe and Ted Sherdeman.
1953 Pickup on South Street Template:Yes Template:Yes Story by Dwight Taylor.
1954 Hell and High Water Template:Yes Template:Yes Co-written with David Hempstead and Jesse L. Lasky, Jr..
1955 House of Bamboo Template:Yes Template:Yes Co-written with Harry Kleiner
1957 China Gate Template:Yes Template:Yes
Run of the Arrow Template:Yes Template:Yes
Forty Guns Template:Yes Template:Yes
1959 Dog Face Template:Yes Template:Yes Unaired TV pilot.
Verboten! Template:Yes Template:Yes
The Crimson Kimono Template:Yes Template:Yes
1960 Burnett's Woman Story credit; teleplay by Larry Welch.
1961 Underworld U.S.A. Template:Yes Template:Yes Based on articles by Joseph F. Dinneen.
1962 Merrill's Marauders Template:Yes Template:Yes Co-written with Milton Sperling.
1963 Shock Corridor Template:Yes Template:Yes
1964 The Naked Kiss Template:Yes Template:Yes
1967 The Cape Town Affair Template:Yes Co-written with Dwight Taylor and Harold Medford.
1968 Targets Template:Yes Uncredited; co-written with Polly Platt and Peter Bogdanovich. Directed by Bogdanovich and produced by Roger Corman.
1969 Shark! Template:Yes Template:Yes Co-written with John Kingsbridge.
1973 Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street Template:Yes Template:Yes Television film for the German crime series Tatort.
1973 The Deadly Trackers Template:Yes Template:Yes Uncredited; based on Fuller's story "Riata".
1974 The Klansman Template:Yes Co-written with Millard Kaufman.
1980 The Big Red One Template:Yes Template:Yes
1982 White Dog Template:Yes Template:Yes Co-written with Curtis Hanson.
1984 Thieves After Dark Template:Yes Template:Yes
1986 Let's Get Harry Template:Yes Story credit with Mark Feldberg; screenplay by Charles Robert Carner.
1989 Street of No Return Template:Yes Template:Yes
1990 The Madonna and the Dragon Template:Yes Template:Yes
1994 Girls in Prison Template:Yes Directed by John McNaughton. Co-written with Christa Lang.


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