biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Film director and producer, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He made his film debut as a director in 1955 and went on to specialize in low-cost horror films, graduating to more expensive ventures such as The Masque of the Red Death (1964). Although long ignored by serious students of film, he later gained almost cult status with the recognition that his work anticipated various themes of ‘pop culture’ and had served as both a training ground and/or inspiration for a whole generation of Hollywood film-makers. |
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