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Monte Hellman was born on July 12, 1929, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to Gertrude (née Edelstein) and Fred Himmelbaum, who were vacationing in New York at the time of his birth. The family ended up settling in Albany, New York, before relocating to Los Angeles, California, when Hellman was 5 years old.. Hellman graduated from Los Angeles High School, and attended Stanford University, graduating ...
Monte Hellman. Director: Iguana. Monte Hellman was born on July 12, 1929, in New York City, where his parents were visiting, but he grew up in Los Angeles. He studied drama at Stanford University--on an NBC scholarship--and film at UCLA. After a few years directing in summer theater, Hellman hooked up with legendary "B" movie producer Roger Corman in the late 1950s.
Apr 20, 2021 · Monte Hellman, director of spare, existential genre films such as 'The Shooting' and 'Two-Lane Blacktop' and executive producer of Quentin Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs,' is dead at 91.
Apr 21, 2021 · Monte Hellman, whose terse action films, epitomized by the 1971 road movie “Two-Lane Blacktop,” made him a cult hero of the American independent film movement, died on Tuesday in Palm Desert ...
Apr 20, 2021 · Monte Hellman, the maverick director of such films as “Two-Lane Blacktop,” “The Shooting” and “Road to Nowhere,” died April 20 at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Desert, Calif ...
Monte Hellman. Director: Iguana. Monte Hellman was born on July 12, 1929, in New York City, where his parents were visiting, but he grew up in Los Angeles. He studied drama at Stanford University--on an NBC scholarship--and film at UCLA. After a few years directing in summer theater, Hellman hooked up with legendary "B" movie producer Roger Corman in the late 1950s. Corman helped finance ...
Apr 21, 2021 · Monte Hellman made his directorial debut with the horror film 'Beast from Haunted Cave' (1959). Lionel FLUSIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. Hellman was best known for directing the 1971 cult ...
Apr 22, 2021 · On the release of what was to be the late Monte Hellman’s final feature film in 2011, critic Steve Erickson noted “Monte Hellman is the ultimate outlaw filmmaker.”. A decade earlier ...
Apr 21, 2021 · Influential director Monte Hellman, whose 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop starring musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson became a counterculture cult classic, died Tuesday. He was 91. His death at ...
Apr 20, 2021 · Monte Hellman, the film director who earned a cult following with movies like Two-Lane Blacktop and Ride in the Whirlwind, died Tuesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Springs, California ...
