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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, American director who earned his reputation with realistic and socially conscious films that were often marked by violence. His notable movies included the classics What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). Learn more about Aldrich’s life and career.
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Robert Aldrich was a prolific and versatile director who made films in various genres, often with a subversive undertone. He directed classics such as Kiss Me Deadly, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Dirty Dozen, and was a nephew of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
1. Kiss Me Deadly. 1955 1h 46m Approved. 7.5 (22K) Rate. A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit". Director Robert Aldrich Stars Ralph Meeker Albert Dekker Paul Stewart. 2. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 2h 14m Approved. 8.0 (62K) Rate. 75 Metascore.
Sep 22, 2022 · Robert Aldrich publicly acknowledged the influence of John Ford’s cavalry trilogy on his direction of Ulzana’s Raid, but his anti-war stance and brutal violence on film were a far cry from Ford’s popular John Wayne Westerns.
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World for Ransom is a 1954 American film noir drama directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Dan Duryea, Patric Knowles, Gene Lockhart, Reginald Denny, and Nigel Bruce (in his final film role). Many of the actors and sets used in the film were from the Dan Duryea television show China Smith.
