Samuel Fuller

★ Directing #1,053

1912 - 1997 (age 85) • Directing

Born: 8/12/1912 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Died: 10/30/1997 (age 85)

Known for: Directing

Samuel Fuller

★ Directing #1,053

Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.

Known For

The American Friend

71%

The American

1977

The Big Red One

67%

Director

1980

Pickup on South Street

74%

Screenplay

1953

A Return to Salem's Lot

59%

Van Meer

1987

White Dog

66%

Director

1982

Shock Corridor

70%

Director

1963

Targets

71%

Screenplay

1968

The Naked Kiss

70%

Director

1964

Films to Die For

(archive footage) (uncredited)

2025

A Fuller Life

66%

Self

2013

A Fuller Life

66%

Book

2013

Scene Missing

63%

Self

2012

Nuits transparentes

2011

Sodankylä Forever

64%

Self

2010

Carmel

70%

2009

Filmmakers in Action

72%

Self (archive footage)

2006

The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'

70%

Himself (archive footage)

2005

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

84%

War Correspondent (uncredited)

2005

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

84%

Director

2005

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

84%

Writer

2005

Necro not(to b)e

Sé stesso

2003

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

58%

Self

2002

The End of Violence

54%

Louis

1997

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

72%

Self

1996

Somebody to Love

52%

Sam Silverman

1994

Girls in Prison

46%

Writer

1994

Rebel Highway

80%

Writer

1994

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

68%

Self

1994

Un Américain en Normandie

Himself

1994

Anything for John

73%

Self

1993

Golem: The Petrified Garden

52%

Sam

1993

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

50%

Elimelek

1992

La Vie de Bohème

75%

Gassot

1992

Shock Corridor

himself

1992

Where Is Musette?

100%

Self

1992

The Madonna and the Dragon

67%

Chef de bureau Newsweek

1990