Samuel Fuller
Gender: Male
Born: 12th August 1912
Died: 30th October 1997
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: China Gate, Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street, Fixed Bayonets!, Forty Guns, Hell and High Water, House of Bamboo, I Shot Jesse James, Merrill's Marauders, Park Row, Pickup on South Street, Run of the Arrow, Shark!, Shock Corridor, Street of No Return, The Baron of Arizona, The Big Red One, The Crimson Kimono, The Deadly Trackers, The Meanest Men in the West, The Naked Kiss, The Steel Helmet, Thieves After Dark, Underworld U.S.A., Verboten!, White Dog
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 America on the Mayflower. At the age of 12, he began working in journalism as a newspaper copyboy. He became a crime reporter in New York City at age 17, working for the New York Evening Graphic. He broke the story of Jeanne Eagels' death. He wrote pulp novels, including The Dark Page (1944; reissued in 2007 with an introduction by Wim Wenders), and screenplays from the mid-1930s onwards. Fuller also became a screenplay ghostwriter but would never tell interviewers which screenplays he ghost-wrote explaining "that's what a ghost writer is for."
During World War II, Fuller joined the United States Army. He was assigned as an infantryman to the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, and
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