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Samuel Michael Fuller was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, of Jewish parents, Rebecca (née Baum) and Benjamin Fuller. [4] His father died in 1923 when Samuel was 11. After immigrating to the United States, the family's surname was changed from Rabinovitch to Fuller, a name possibly inspired by Samuel Fuller (Pilgrim), a doctor who arrived in America on the Mayflow
Samantha Fuller (born January 28, 1975) is an American director and producer who is best known for making A Fuller Life, a documentary regarding the centenary of the birth of her father, Samuel Fuller. [1] Fuller is the only child of Samuel Fuller and his wife Christa Lang. [2]
Fuller was acquainted with a Nisei that worked for the LAPD as a detective, who became the basis of the Joe character. Columbia Studios head of production Sam Briskin went with the pitch for the film even after trying to get Fuller to make the "white guy a sonofabitch", which Fuller firmly disagreed with when it came to making a love story.
The film was conceived by Samantha Fuller, Samuel Fuller's only child, in 2011, as to celebrate her father's centenary. [1] It is based on Samuel Fuller's autobiography A Third Face, from which several excerpts are read throughout the film. [2] [3] It also features excerpts from Fuller's private 16mm films. [3]
Merrill's Marauders is a 1962 Technicolor war film, photographed in CinemaScope, and directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller.It is based on the exploits of the long-range penetration jungle warfare unit of the same name in the Burma campaign, culminating in the Siege of Myitkyina.
In 1976, Fuller, as a result of health problems, asked his top distributor, Joe Louis Dudley, Sr., to move to Chicago and become President of the Fuller Products Company. Dudley ran both Fuller Products Company and Dudley Products Company from 1976 until 1984. In 1984, Fuller Products Company was purchased by Dudley.
Pages in category "Films with screenplays by Samuel Fuller" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Run of the Arrow is a 1957 American Western film written, directed, and produced by Samuel Fuller and starring Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker, Jay C. Flippen, and Charles Bronson. Set at the end of the American Civil War, the movie was filmed in Technicolor.