Samuel Fuller

ActorWriterDirectorCrewProducer Aug 12 (died age 85) Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 1936–2025 (89 year career)

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Biography

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 …

Known For

Film

Pierrot le Fou

Samuel Fuller (uncredited)

Film

The American Friend

The American

Film

Pickup on South Street

Director

Film

Shock Corridor

Director

Film

The Big Red One

War Correspondent (uncredited)

Film

Targets

Screenplay

Film

1941

Interceptor Commander

Film

White Dog

Charlie Felton

Filmography

Acting (57)

Movies (54)

Films to Die For

2025

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

A Fuller Life

as Self

Scene Missing

as Self

Nuits transparentes

Sodankylä Forever

as Self

Carmel

2009

7.0

Filmmakers in Action

2006

as Self (archive footage)

6.8

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

2005

as War Correspondent (uncredited)

8.4

The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'

2005

as Himself (archive footage)

6.0

Necro not(to b)e

2003

as Sé stesso

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as Self

The End of Violence

as Louis

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

1996

as Self

6.4

Un Américain en Normandie

1994

as Himself

Somebody to Love

1994

as Sam Silverman

5.0

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

as Self

Anything for John

as Self

Golem: The Petrified Garden

1993

as Sam

4.2

Shock Corridor

1992

as himself

La Vie de Bohème

1992

as Gassot

7.5

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

1992

as Elimelek

4.7

Where Is Musette?

1992

as Self

The Madonna and the Dragon

1990

as Chef de bureau Newsweek

6.0

Sons

1990

as Father

5.0

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

1990

as Self

Tell me Sam - Encounters with Sam Fuller

1989

as Himself

Street of No Return

1989

as Police Commissioner

4.9

Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire

1988

as Le capitaine américain

Falkenau, the Impossible

1988

as Samuel Fuller

7.0

A Return to Salem's Lot

1987

as Van Meer

5.9

Midnight Sun Film Festival

1987

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

1987

as Boss

5.7

The Bleeding Star

1987

as The Man in the Bar

Hooray For Holyrood

1986

as Self

A Travelling is a Moral Affair

1986

as Himself

Report from Hollywood

1985

Sam Fuller & the Big Red One

1984

as Self

Thieves After Dark

1984

as Zoltan

4.3

Hammett

1982

as Old Man in Pool Hall

6.2

The State of Things

1982

as Joe

6.4

Slapstick of Another Kind

as Colonel Sharp

White Dog

as Charlie Felton

Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera

1981

as Himself

The Big Red One

1980

as War Correspondent (uncredited)

6.7

1941

1979

as Interceptor Commander

Cinématon

as N°602

Scott Joplin

as Impresario

The American Friend

as The American

The Young Nurses

as Doc Haskell

The Last Movie

as Sam

Cinéastes de notre temps : Samuel Fuller

1967

as Interviewee

Brigitte and Brigitte

1966

as Self

6.1

Pierrot le Fou

1965

as Samuel Fuller (uncredited)

7.3

House of Bamboo

1955

as Japanese policeman (uncredited)

6.2

Television (3)

Sodankylä Forever

as Self

David Lansky

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

as Self

6.0

Crew (102)

Movies (94)

A Fuller Life

2013

Book

6.6

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

2005

Director

8.4

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

Writer

Girls in Prison

Writer

The Madonna and the Dragon

1990

Director

6.0

The Madonna and the Dragon

1990

Screenplay

6.0

The Day of Reckoning

1990

Director

The Day of Reckoning

1990

Screenplay

Street of No Return

Dialogue

Street of No Return

Director

Street of No Return

Screenplay

Let's Get Harry

Story

Thieves After Dark

Director

Thieves After Dark

Writer

White Dog

Director

White Dog

Screenplay

The Big Red One

Director

The Big Red One

Writer

The Meanest Men in the West

1978

Director

4.1

The Meanest Men in the West

Screenplay

The Klansman

Screenplay

The Deadly Trackers

Story

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street

1972

Director

5.0

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street

Writer

Shark

Director

Shark

Screenplay

Targets

Screenplay

Made in U.S.A

Thanks

The Cape Town Affair

Writer

The Naked Kiss

Director

The Naked Kiss

Producer

The Naked Kiss

Writer

Shock Corridor

Director

Shock Corridor

Producer

Shock Corridor

Screenplay

Merrill's Marauders

Director

Merrill's Marauders

Screenplay

Underworld U.S.A.

Director

Underworld U.S.A.

Producer

Underworld U.S.A.

Writer

Verboten!

Director

Verboten!

Writer

Dogface

Director

Dogface

Producer

Dogface

Writer

The Crimson Kimono

Director

The Crimson Kimono

Producer

The Crimson Kimono

Writer

Forty Guns

Director

Forty Guns

Producer

Forty Guns

Screenplay

China Gate

Director

China Gate

Producer

China Gate

Screenplay

Run of the Arrow

Director

Run of the Arrow

Producer

Run of the Arrow

Writer

House of Bamboo

Additional Dialogue

House of Bamboo

Director

Hell and High Water

Director

Hell and High Water

Screenplay

The Command

Writer

Pickup on South Street

1953

Director

7.4

Pickup on South Street

Screenplay

Park Row

Director

Park Row

Producer

Park Row

Writer

Scandal Sheet

Novel

The Steel Helmet

Director

The Steel Helmet

Producer

The Steel Helmet

Writer

Fixed Bayonets!

Director

Fixed Bayonets!

Screenplay

The Tanks Are Coming

Story

The Baron of Arizona

Director

The Baron of Arizona

Writer

Shockproof

Writer

I Shot Jesse James

Director

I Shot Jesse James

Writer

Gangs of the Waterfront

Story

V-E +1

Director

Power of the Press

Story

Margin for Error

Screenplay

Confirm or Deny

Story

Gangs of Chicago

Screenplay

Bowery Boy

Original Story

She Married a Cop

Writer

Adventure in Sahara

Story

Federal Man-Hunt

Story

Gangs of New York

Screenplay

Gangs of New York

Story

It Happened in Hollywood

Screenplay

Hats Off

Screenplay

Hats Off

Story

Television (8)

Rebel Highway

Writer

Chillers

Director

Chillers

Writer

Scene of the Crime

Director

Scene of the Crime

Writer

The Virginian

Director

The Virginian

Writer

The Dick Powell Show

Director