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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
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.
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 .
The Baron of Arizona is a 1950 American Western film directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Vincent Price and Ellen Drew. [2]The film concerns a master forger's attempted use of false documents to lay claim to the territory of Arizona late in the 19th century.
When Sam Fuller joined the project, he rewrote the script and retitled it Caine. He shared writing credit with John Kingsbridge. [1] Fuller later said "I liked the idea of making a story where, for once, the hero is really the heavy, the heavy is the girl, there's another heavy, and you find out in the end they're all heavies." [5]
Verboten! was the first of Samuel Fuller's films to be set during World War II, of which he was a veteran. He had previously drawn on his war experience to make movies about the Korean War and the French Indochina War. Raymond Harvey was the film's technical adviser; he had previously worked with Fuller on his Fixed Bayonets! (1951).