Samuel Fuller

Samuel Fuller

1912-08-12 Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 106 Credits

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 ...

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A Fuller Life

A Fuller Life

2013

as Self

6.6
Acting

Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child...

A Fuller Life

A Fuller Life

2013

Book

6.6

Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child...

Scene Missing

Scene Missing

2012

as Self

6.3
Acting

The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).

Nuits transparentes

Nuits transparentes

2011

Acting

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).

Sodankylä Forever

Sodankylä Forever

2010

as Self

Acting

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by ...

Carmel

Carmel

2009

7.0
Acting

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Filmmakers in Action

Filmmakers in Action

2006

as Self (archive footage)

6.8
Acting

What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in...

Edge of Outside

Edge of Outside

2006

as Self (archive footage)

5.8
Acting

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and ...

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

2005

as War Correspondent (uncredited)

8.5
Acting

A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It incl...

The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'

The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'

2005

as Himself (archive footage)

6.0
Acting

Documentary about the efforts to reconstruct Sam Fuller's The Big Red One closer to the film Fuller had originally envisioned.

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

2005

Director, Writer

8.5
Directing Writing

A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It incl...

Necro not(to b)e

Necro not(to b)e

2003

as Sé stesso

Acting
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

2002

as Self

5.8
Acting

Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.

The End of Violence

The End of Violence

1997

as Louis

5.3
Acting

In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

1996

as Self

6.4
Acting

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into th...

Somebody to Love

Somebody to Love

1994

as Sam Silverman

5.2
Acting

Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in lo...

Girls in Prison

Girls in Prison

1994

Writer

4.2
Writing

Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries ...

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

1994

as Self

6.9
Acting

In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 ye...

Un Américain en Normandie

1994

as Himself

Acting

Filmmaker Samuel Fuller tells the story of Corporal Samuel Fuller's landing on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, and his subsequent campaign in Normandy (t...

Anything for John

Anything for John

1993

as Self

6.0
Acting

An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for studying and depicting the human character. In-de...

Golem: The Petrified Garden

Golem: The Petrified Garden

1993

as Sam

4.2
Acting

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birob...

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

1992

as Elimelek

4.7
Acting

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblica...

La Vie de Bohème

La Vie de Bohème

1992

as Gassot

7.5
Acting

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with n...

Where Is Musette?

Where Is Musette?

1992

as self

Acting

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"

Shock Corridor

Shock Corridor

1992

as himself

Acting

Short 35mm experimental film featuring Sam Fuller.

The Madonna and the Dragon

The Madonna and the Dragon

1990

as Chef de bureau Newsweek

6.0
Acting

Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.

The Madonna and the Dragon

The Madonna and the Dragon

1990

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.

The Day of Reckoning

The Day of Reckoning

1990

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

A young man begins to have terrifying nightmares after visiting his obsessive uncle's automated chicken farm.

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

1990

as Self

Acting

Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best o...

Sons

Sons

1990

as Father

5.0
Acting

A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.

Street of No Return

Street of No Return

1989

as Police Commissioner

5.1
Acting

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsore...

Street of No Return

Street of No Return

1989

Director, Screenplay, Dialogue

5.1
Directing Writing

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsore...

Tell me Sam - Encounters with Sam Fuller

1989

as Himself

Acting
Falkenau, the Impossible

Falkenau, the Impossible

1988

as Samuel Fuller

7.0
Acting

Documentary stems from 1945, when infantryman Sam Fuller, member of the U.S. Army's "Big Red One," helped liberate the Nazis' Falkenau death camp. Ful...

Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire

Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire

1988

as Le capitaine américain

Acting
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

1987

as Boss

5.7
Acting

Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately for A...

A Return to Salem's Lot

A Return to Salem's Lot

1987

as Van Meer

5.9
Acting

Joe Weber is an anthropologist who takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot unaware that it is populated by vampires. When the i...

Midnight Sun Film Festival

1987

Acting

The greatest film festival (anti)promotional short ever made which explains why Midnight Sun is a unique event for both film buffs in Finland and some...

The Bleeding Star

The Bleeding Star

1987

Acting

An Englishman arrives in a remote French town near the coast to collect his broken-down car. What he sees there will change his life forever.

Let's Get Harry

Let's Get Harry

1986

Story

6.2
Writing

Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take matters i...

Hooray For Holyrood

1986

as Self

Acting

Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and featuring...

A Travelling is a Moral Affair

1986

as Himself

Acting

Report from Hollywood

1985

Acting

“It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab while on the set of Wim Wenders’ The State of Thin...

Thieves After Dark

Thieves After Dark

1984

as Zoltan

4.7
Acting

A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.

Thieves After Dark

Thieves After Dark

1984

Director, Writer

4.7
Directing Writing

A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.

Sam Fuller & the Big Red One

Sam Fuller & the Big Red One

1984

as Self

Acting

A documentary shot during the production of Samuel Fuller's film The Big Red One.

Slapstick of Another Kind

Slapstick of Another Kind

1982

as Colonel Sharp

2.7
Acting

A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.

White Dog

White Dog

1982

as Charlie Felton

6.6
Acting

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.

White Dog

White Dog

1982

Director, Screenplay

6.6
Directing Writing

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.

Hammett

Hammett

1982

as Old Man in Pool Hall

6.2
Acting

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...

The State of Things

The State of Things

1982

as Joe

6.5
Acting

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is...

The Big Red One

The Big Red One

1980

as War Correspondent (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian P...

The Big Red One

The Big Red One

1980

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian P...

1941

1941

1979

as Interceptor Commander

5.8
Acting

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Cinématon

Cinématon

1978

as N°602

4.3
Acting

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 y...

The Meanest Men in the West

The Meanest Men in the West

1978

Director, Screenplay

4.1
Directing Writing

Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them...

The American Friend

The American Friend

1977

as The American

7.1
Acting

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by ga...

Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin

1977

as Impresario

6.1
Acting

The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.

The Klansman

The Klansman

1974

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the K...

The Deadly Trackers

The Deadly Trackers

1973

Story

5.6
Writing

Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against ev...

The Young Nurses

The Young Nurses

1973

as Doc Haskell

3.9
Acting

Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street

1972

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

A private detective (Glenn Corbett) infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians.

The Last Movie

The Last Movie

1971

as Sam

5.7
Acting

After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.

Shark

Shark

1969

Director, Screenplay

4.2
Directing Writing

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested...

Targets

Targets

1968

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.

Cinéastes de notre temps : Samuel Fuller

1967

as Interviewee

Acting

Episode of the French television series about the work of American film director Samuel Fuller. (A 23-minute edited version of this show appears on th...

The Cape Town Affair

The Cape Town Affair

1967

Writer

3.5
Writing

South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists. A color remake of the Sam Fuller film...

Made in U.S.A

Made in U.S.A

1967

Thanks

6.1

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, s...

Brigitte and Brigitte

Brigitte and Brigitte

1966

as Self

6.1
Acting

Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.

Pierrot le Fou

Pierrot le Fou

1965

as Samuel Fuller (uncredited)

7.4
Acting

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an ...

The Naked Kiss

The Naked Kiss

1964

Director, Writer, Producer

7.0
Directing Writing Producing

A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.

Shock Corridor

Shock Corridor

1963

Director, Screenplay, Producer

7.0
Directing Writing Producing

With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a...

Merrill's Marauders

Merrill's Marauders

1962

Director, Screenplay

6.1
Directing Writing

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind J...

Underworld U.S.A.

Underworld U.S.A.

1961

Director, Writer, Producer

7.0
Directing Writing Producing

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

The Crimson Kimono

The Crimson Kimono

1959

Director, Writer, Producer

6.7
Directing Writing Producing

Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.

Verboten!

Verboten!

1959

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.

Dogface

Dogface

1959

Director, Writer, Producer

6.0
Directing Writing Producing

This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a fascinating...

Forty Guns

Forty Guns

1957

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.5
Directing Writing Producing

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle ...

Run of the Arrow

Run of the Arrow

1957

Director, Writer, Producer

6.2
Directing Writing Producing

When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a ...

China Gate

China Gate

1957

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.0
Directing Writing Producing

Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.

House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

1955

as Japanese policeman (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen...

House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

1955

Director, Additional Dialogue

6.1
Directing

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen...

The Command

The Command

1954

Writer

6.2
Writing

Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.

Hell and High Water

Hell and High Water

1954

Director, Screenplay

6.1
Directing Writing

A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese...

Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street

1953

Director, Screenplay

7.4
Directing Writing

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wall...

Park Row

Park Row

1952

Writer, Director, Producer

6.7
Writing Directing Producing

In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opp...

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet

1952

Novel

7.0

A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

Fixed Bayonets!

Fixed Bayonets!

1951

Director, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing

The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take ...

The Tanks Are Coming

The Tanks Are Coming

1951

Story

8.3
Writing

An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.

The Steel Helmet

The Steel Helmet

1951

Director, Writer, Producer

7.0
Directing Writing Producing

A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

The Baron of Arizona

The Baron of Arizona

1950

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical eviden...

I Shot Jesse James

I Shot Jesse James

1949

Director, Writer

6.2
Directing Writing

Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford so...

Shockproof

Shockproof

1949

Writer

6.4
Writing

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her s...

Gangs of the Waterfront

Gangs of the Waterfront

1945

Story

6.0
Writing

Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang member...

V-E +1

V-E +1

1945

Director

6.5
Directing

The silent 16 mm footage that makes up "V-E +1" documents the burial of beaten and emaciated Holocaust victims found by Allied forces in the Nazi conc...

Margin for Error

Margin for Error

1943

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of ...

Power of the Press

Power of the Press

1943

Story

6.2
Writing

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war e...

Confirm or Deny

Confirm or Deny

1941

Story

3.8
Writing

Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz...

Bowery Boy

Bowery Boy

1940

Original Story

3.0
Writing

Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in movin...

Gangs of Chicago

Gangs of Chicago

1940

Screenplay

5.3
Writing

A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

She Married a Cop

She Married a Cop

1939

Writer

5.7
Writing

This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Polic...

Federal Man-Hunt

Federal Man-Hunt

1938

Story

6.2
Writing

By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies ...

Adventure in Sahara

Adventure in Sahara

1938

Story

5.5
Writing

Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own reques...

Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York

1938

Story, Screenplay

4.9
Writing

An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

It Happened in Hollywood

It Happened in Hollywood

1937

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

Hats Off

Hats Off

1936

Screenplay, Story

3.7
Writing

The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Al...