- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- August 12, 1912
- Place of Birth
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Died
- October 30, 1997
Samuel Fuller
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. He was born Samuel Michael Fuller in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Benjamin Rabinovitch, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, and Rebecca Baum, a Jewish immigrant from Poland. After immigrating to America, the family's surname was changed from Rabinovitch to "Fuller" possibly by inspiration of a Doctor who arrived in America on the Mayflower. At the age of 12, he began working in journalism as a newspaper copyboy. He became a crime reporter in New York City at age 17, working for the New York Evening Graphic. He broke the story of Jeanne Eagels' death. He wrote pulp novels and screenplays from the mid-1930s onwards. Fuller also became a screenplay ghostwriter but would never tell interviewers which scr…
Filmography
movieFilms to Die For
2025 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieA Fuller Life
2013 · Self, Book
movieScene Missing
2012 · Self
movieNuits transparentes
2011
tvSodankylä Forever
2010 · Self
movieCarmel
2009
movieFilmmakers in Action
2006 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Big Red One: The Reconstruction
2005 · War Correspondent (uncredited), Director, Writer
movieThe Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
2005 · Himself (archive footage)
movieNecro not(to b)e
2003 · Sé stesso
movieThe Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002 · Self
movieThe End of Violence
1997 · Louis
movieThe Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
1996 · Self
movieSomebody to Love
1994 · Sam Silverman
movieGirls in Prison
1994 · Writer
tvRebel Highway
1994 · Writer
movieTigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
1994 · Self
Un Américain en Normandie
movieUn Américain en Normandie
1994 · Himself
movieAnything for John
1993 · Self
movieGolem: The Petrified Garden
1993 · Sam
movieGolem, the Spirit of Exile
1992 · Elimelek
movieLa Vie de Bohème
1992 · Gassot
movieWhere Is Musette?
1992 · Self
movieShock Corridor
1992 · himself
movieThe Madonna and the Dragon
1990 · Chef de bureau Newsweek, Director, Screenplay
movieThe Day of Reckoning
1990 · Director, Screenplay
movieMotion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990 · Self
tvChillers
1990 · Director, Writer
movieSons
1990 · Father
movieStreet of No Return
1989 · Police Commissioner, Director, Screenplay, Dialogue
tvDavid Lansky
1989
Tell me Sam - Encounters with Sam Fuller
movieTell me Sam - Encounters with Sam Fuller
1989 · Himself
movieFalkenau, the Impossible
1988 · Samuel Fuller
movieMer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
1988 · Le capitaine américain
movieHelsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987 · Boss
movieA Return to Salem's Lot
1987 · Van Meer
Midnight Sun Film Festival
movieMidnight Sun Film Festival
1987
movieThe Bleeding Star
1987 · The Man in the Bar
movieLet's Get Harry
1986 · Story
Hooray For Holyrood
movieHooray For Holyrood
1986 · Self
A Travelling is a Moral Affair
movieA Travelling is a Moral Affair
1986 · Himself
Report from Hollywood
movieReport from Hollywood
1985
movieThieves After Dark
1984 · Zoltan, Director, Writer
movieSam Fuller & the Big Red One
1984 · Self
movieSlapstick of Another Kind
1982 · Colonel Sharp
movieWhite Dog
1982 · Charlie Felton, Director, Screenplay
movieHammett
1982 · Old Man in Pool Hall
movieThe State of Things
1982 · Joe
movieSam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981 · Himself
movieThe Big Red One
1980 · War Correspondent (uncredited), Director, Writer
movie1941
1979 · Interceptor Commander
movieCinématon
1978 · N°602
movieThe Meanest Men in the West
1978 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe American Friend
1977 · The American
movieScott Joplin
1977 · Impresario
tvLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
movieThe Klansman
1974 · Screenplay
movieThe Deadly Trackers
1973 · Story
movieThe Young Nurses
1973 · Doc Haskell
movieDead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
1972 · Director, Writer
movieThe Last Movie
1971 · Sam
tvScene of the Crime
1970 · Director, Writer
movieShark
1969 · Director, Screenplay
movieTargets
1968 · Screenplay
Cinéastes de notre temps : Samuel Fuller
movieCinéastes de notre temps : Samuel Fuller
1967 · Interviewee
movieThe Cape Town Affair
1967 · Writer
movieMade in U.S.A
1967 · Thanks
movieBrigitte and Brigitte
1966 · Self
moviePierrot le Fou
1965 · Samuel Fuller (uncredited)
movieThe Naked Kiss
1964 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieShock Corridor
1963 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
tvThe Virginian
1962 · Writer, Director
movieMerrill's Marauders
1962 · Director, Screenplay
tvThe Dick Powell Show
1961 · Director
movieUnderworld U.S.A.
1961 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieThe Crimson Kimono
1959 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieVerboten!
1959 · Director, Writer
movieDogface
1959 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieForty Guns
1957 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
movieRun of the Arrow
1957 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieChina Gate
1957 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
movieHouse of Bamboo
1955 · Japanese policeman (uncredited), Director, Additional Dialogue
movieThe Command
1954 · Writer
movieHell and High Water
1954 · Director, Screenplay
moviePickup on South Street
1953 · Director, Screenplay
moviePark Row
1952 · Writer, Director, Producer
movieScandal Sheet
1952 · Novel
movieFixed Bayonets!
1951 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Tanks Are Coming
1951 · Story
movieThe Steel Helmet
1951 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieThe Baron of Arizona
1950 · Director, Writer
movieI Shot Jesse James
1949 · Director, Writer
movieShockproof
1949 · Writer
movieGangs of the Waterfront
1945 · Story
movieV-E +1
1945 · Director
movieMargin for Error
1943 · Screenplay
moviePower of the Press
1943 · Story
movieConfirm or Deny
1941 · Story
movieBowery Boy
1940 · Original Story
movieGangs of Chicago
1940 · Screenplay
movieShe Married a Cop
1939 · Writer
movieFederal Man-Hunt
1938 · Story
movieAdventure in Sahara
1938 · Story
movieGangs of New York
1938 · Story, Screenplay
movieIt Happened in Hollywood
1937 · Screenplay
movieHats Off
1936 · Screenplay, Story