Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1912, Samuel Fuller was a crime reporter at seventeen and a pulp novelist before serving as an infantryman in the First Infantry Division in the Second World War, where he filmed the liberation of Falkenau concentration camp. He made his debut with I Shot Jesse James (1949) and became known for low-budget, hard-hitting genre films with controversial themes. After Paramount shelved White Dog, he moved to France in 1982. His films influenced the French New Wave and Jean-Luc Godard gave him a cameo in Pierrot le Fou. He died in Los Angeles in 1997.
Filmography
- The Steel Helmet (1951)
- Pickup on South Street (1953)
- Shock Corridor (1963)
- The Naked Kiss (1964)
- The Big Red One (1980)
- White Dog (1982)