Biography
Before enlisting in the army at the age of 29, Samuel Fuller earned a living as a journalist. He began his own directing career, lasting over forty years, with the western I Shot Jesse James (1949). The following decade was crucial for his career when, together with Robert Aldrich and Nicholas Ray, he was part of a new generation of filmmakers who retuned the classic melodrama more in the direction of film noir poetics, emphasising the darkly romantic side with a tendency towards the lyricism of violence (e.g. Pickup on South Street, 1953). In the sixties, Fuller became celebrated for the films Shock Corridor (1963) and The Naked Kiss (1964), which are more Hollywood B movies, yet still remarkable works for their time, particularly thanks to the unconventional treatment of popular stories from cheap magazines. This was also why Fuller was considered by European critics as one of the pure auteurs.
MFF Karlovy Vary
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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1989 |
Samuel Fuller's Street of No Return |
1984 |
Thieves After Dark |
1982 |
White Dog |
1980 |
The Big Red One |
1974 |
The Klansman |
The Meanest Men in the West (TV movie) |
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1969 |
Shark! |
1968 |
Targets |
1967 |
The Cape Town Affair |
1964 |
The Naked Kiss |
1963 |
Shock Corridor |
1962 |
Merrill's Marauders |
1961 |
Underworld U.S.A. |
1959 |
The Crimson Kimono |
Verboten! |
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1957 |
China Gate |
Forty Guns |
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Run of the Arrow |
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1954 |
Hell and High Water |
The Command |
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1953 |
Pickup on South Street |
1952 |
Park Row |
1951 |
Fixed Bayonets! |
The Steel Helmet |
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1950 |
The Baron of Arizona |
1949 |
I Shot Jesse James |
Shockproof |
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1938 |
Gangs of New York |
1937 |
It Happened in Hollywood |
1936 |
Hats Off |
Series | |
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1994 |
Rebel Highway |
Girls in Prison (E05) |
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1990 |
Chillers |
1973 |
Tatort |
Tote Taube in der Beethovenstraße (S04E01) |
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1966 |
Iron Horse |
1962 |
The Virginian |
It Tolls for Thee (S01E09) |
Director
Movies | |
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1990 |
The Day of Reckoning (TV movie) |
Tinikling ou 'La madonne et le dragon' (TV movie) |
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1989 |
Samuel Fuller's Street of No Return |
1984 |
Thieves After Dark |
1982 |
White Dog |
1980 |
The Big Red One |
1974 |
The Meanest Men in the West (TV movie) |
1973 |
The Deadly Trackers |
1969 |
Shark! |
1964 |
The Naked Kiss |
1963 |
Shock Corridor |
1962 |
Merrill's Marauders |
1961 |
Underworld U.S.A. |
1959 |
The Crimson Kimono |
Verboten! |
|
1957 |
China Gate |
Forty Guns |
|
Run of the Arrow |
|
1955 |
House of Bamboo |
1954 |
Hell and High Water |
1953 |
Pickup on South Street |
1952 |
Park Row |
1951 |
Fixed Bayonets! |
The Steel Helmet |
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1950 |
The Baron of Arizona |
1949 |
I Shot Jesse James |
Series | |
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1990 |
Patricia Highsmith's Tales |
1973 |
Tatort |
Tote Taube in der Beethovenstraße (S04E01) |
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1966 |
Iron Horse |
1962 |
The Virginian |
It Tolls for Thee (S01E09) |
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1961 |
The Dick Powell Show |
Actor
Movies | |
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2009 |
Carmel |
1997 |
The End of Violence |
1996 |
Milim |
1994 |
Somebody to Love |
1993 |
Golem: The Petrified Garden |
1992 |
Gibellina, Metamorphosis of a Melody |
Golem, the Spirit of the Exile |
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The Bohemian Life |
|
1990 |
Sons |
Tinikling ou 'La madonne et le dragon' (TV movie) |
|
1989 |
Samuel Fuller's Street of No Return |
1987 |
A Return to Salem's Lot |
Helsinki-Naples All Night Long |
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1984 |
The Blood of Others |
Thieves After Dark |
|
1982 |
Hammett |
Slapstick (Of Another Kind) |
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The State of Things |
|
White Dog |
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1980 |
The Big Red One |
1979 |
1941 |
1977 |
Scott Joplin (TV movie) |
The American Friend |
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1973 |
The Young Nurses |
1971 |
The Last Movie |
1966 |
Brigitte and Brigitte |
1965 |
Crazy Pete |
1961 |
Underworld U.S.A. |
1955 |
House of Bamboo |
Series | |
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2013 |
Suburgatory |
Chinese Chicken (S02E10) |
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1988 |
Médecins des hommes |
Documentaries | |
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2015 |
Mika Kaurismäki, elokuvaohjaaja (TV movie) - a.f. |
2010 |
Sodankylä ikuisesti (series) |
2006 |
Edge of Outside |
2005 |
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One' |
2002 |
The Making of 'Street of No Return' |
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (TV movie) |
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1999 |
Nina Hagen = Punk + Glory |
1996 |
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera |
1995 |
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (TV movie) |
Anything for John |
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1994 |
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made |
1991 |
Where is Musette? |
1990 |
Hollywood Mavericks |
1988 |
Falkenau, the Impossible |
1987 |
Scenes Under the Midnight Sun (TV movie) |
1984 |
Cinématon |
1981 |
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera |
1979 |
Sam Fuller and the Big Red One |
Short | |
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1991 |
Langlois monumental (TV movie) |
1989 |
Scorpion |
1968 |
Flash 28 |
Flash 29 |
Producer
Movies | |
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1964 |
The Naked Kiss |
1963 |
Shock Corridor |
1961 |
Underworld U.S.A. |
1959 |
The Crimson Kimono |
Verboten! |
|
1957 |
China Gate |
Forty Guns |
|
Run of the Arrow |
|
1952 |
Park Row |
1951 |
The Steel Helmet |
Author
Movies | |
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1973 |
The Deadly Trackers - short story |
1952 |
Scandal Sheet - book |
Documentaries | |
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2013 |
A Fuller Life - book |
Cinematographer
Documentaries | |
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1994 |
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made |
Performer
Shows | |
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1998 |
The 70th Annual Academy Awards |
1975 |
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche |
Fans
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