• Date of Birth: March 21, 1922
  • Place of Birth: San Leandro, California, USA

Russ Meyer Biography


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Replace this image with an actor photoRuss Meyer mini-bio: His first feature, the nudist comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959), cost $24,000 to produce and eventually grossed more than $1,000,000 on the independent/exploitation circuit, ensconcing Meyer as "King of the Nudies." Over the next decade, he made nearly twenty movies with a trademark blend of warped humor, huge-breasted starlets and All-American sleaze, including classics Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) and Vixen (1968). Russ Meyer was a true auteur who wrote, directed, edited, photographed and distributed all his own films. He was able to finance each new film from the proceeds of the earlier ones, and became very wealthy in the process. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! starring Tura Satana, is usually considered to be his most well known film and it also routinely chosen as having some of the most powerful female characters ever seen on the big screen. It has a cult following all over the world and has inspired countless imitations, music videos and tributes.

Because his films were expertly photographed and unique he was able to eventually find mainstream success and press, even with an X rating. After the huge success of both Cherry, Harry & Raquel!(1966) and Vixen, Hollywood, which had initially rejected him, came calling and at the height of his independent career, Russ Meyer got the chance to make a big-budget Hollywood film for 20th Century Fox, producing the brilliant but not-exactly-what-Fox-expected Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970, co-written by Roger Ebert). After a second film for Fox (The Seven Minutes) Meyer returned to the independent film world and made four more films, including Supervixens (1974). Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, his final film proper (1979), is considered by many to be his funniest and it is also his most sexually explicit. It should be noted that Russ Meyer never did hardcore pornographic films and eventually retired because of how cynical and unprofessional the world of adult films had become by the late 1970s.

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