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Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur [1] working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed mainly films noir, war movies, westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones.
Robert Aldrich. Director: Emperor of the North. Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an associate producer.
Robert Aldrich, American director who earned his reputation with realistic and socially conscious films that were often marked by violence. His notable movies included the classics What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). Learn more about Aldrich’s life and career.
Robert Aldrich. Director: Emperor of the North. Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an associate producer.
Aug 9, 2018 · From Kiss Me Deadly to “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”, Robert Aldrich was behind some of Hollywood’s most sardonic classics. We celebrate 10 of the best.
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May 21, 2002 · As early as 1957, Aldrich became No. 7 of the “Les Grands Créateurs du Cinéma” series of director monographs published by the Belgian Club du Livre du Cinéma, which followed studies of Robert Bresson, John Huston, Jean Renoir, Vittorio De Sica, Luis Buñuel, and Marcel Carné.
Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Dirty Dozen (1967).
Robert Aldrich, (born Aug. 9, 1918, Cranston, R.I., U.S.—died Dec. 5, 1983, Los Angeles, Calif.), U.S. film director and producer. He held various jobs at RKO from 1941, working under such directors as Jean Renoir and Charlie Chaplin.
Robert Burgess Aldrich was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed mainly films noir, war movies, westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones.
Robert Aldrich’s masterful noir hits you with a hysterical bang that sets its frenzied tone with such balls-out experimental élan; you can’t believe the film was released in 1955: Before any credit sequence, the film begins with a pair of naked feet running down the middle of a highway in the black of the night.
