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Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur [1] working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood , he directed mainly films noir , war movies , westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones.
Robert Aldrich. Director: Emperor of the North. Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an associate producer.
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Robert Aldrich (born August 9, 1918, Cranston, Rhode Island, U.S.—died December 5, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American director who earned his reputation with realistic and socially conscious films that were often marked by violence.
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Robert Aldrich. Director: Emperor of the North. Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an associate producer. He began writing and directing for TV series in the early 1950s, and directed his first feature in 1953 (Big ...
Jun 15, 2022 · Deep Cuts. Attack (1956): One of Aldrich’s most acidic anti-war films — the U.S. Army was incensed by the script and refused to participate in any way — tells the story of a cowardly ...
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Aug 9, 2018 · Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977) Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) Aldrich’s films – especially the 60s ones – sometimes suffer as a result of their expansive running times. Yet, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, one of his longest, makes its 146 minutes count, maintaining a relentless tension throughout.
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Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Dirty Dozen (1967). Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, the son of Lora Lawson and newspaper publisher Edward Burgess Aldrich. He was a grandson of U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and a cousin of Nelson Rockefeller. He ...
