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Name: Robert Aldrich
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Date of Birth:
August 09, 1918
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Place of Birth:
Cranston, Rhode Island, USA
Mini-bio:
Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production man
...( read more)ager and an associate producer. He began writing and directing for TV series in the early 1950s, and directed his first feature in 1953 (Big Leaguer (1953)). Soon thereafter he established his own production company and produced most of his own films, collaborating in the writing of many of them. Among his best-known pictures are Kiss Me Deadly (1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and the muscular WW II mega-hit The Dirty Dozen (1967).
Date of Death:
5 December 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA. (kidney failure)