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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]
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]
Christa Lang-Fuller is a German-American film and television actress and screenwriter. Lang worked frequently with her husband, director Samuel Fuller and is known for such films as White Dog , Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street , What's Up, Doc? , Land of Plenty , No Fear, No Die , Alphaville , The Big Red One , Nickelodeon and Thieves After Dark .
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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.
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.
Samuel Augustus Fuller was August 8, 1837, in Vienna, Ohio, [1] one of five children [2] born to Augustus and Mary Ann (née Hutchins) Fuller. [3] [a] He was a direct descendant of Edward Fuller, a passenger on the Mayflower, the ship that transported the first English Puritans (known today as Pilgrims) from Plymouth, England, to the New World in 1620.