Director Name: George Romero

Our next ‘Director Profile’ is brought to you by OBS staff-member Rose – she introduces us to a director who is best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse.

Director:
– Night of the Living Dead (1968)
– There’s Always Vanilla (1971)
– Hungry Wives (1972)
– The Crazies (1973)
– Willie Stargell: If I Didn’t Play Baseball (1974)
– O.J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose (1974)
– The Winners (1 episode, 1974)
– Martin (1977)
– Dawn of the Dead (1978)
– Knightriders (1981)
– Creepshow (1982)
– Day of the Dead (1985)
– Monkey Shines (1988)
– Due occhi diabolici (1990)
– The Dark Half (1993)
– Bruiser (2000)
– Land of the Dead (2005)
– Diary of the Dead (2007)
– Survival of the Dead (2009)

Producer:
– The Winners (1 episode, 1973)
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Nobody Roots for Goliath (1973)
– Tales from the Darkside (65 episodes, 1984-1988)
– Basher Malone (1988)
– Barter (1988)
– Hush (1988)
– Family Reunion (1988)
– Do Not Open This Box (1988)
– Night of the Living Dead (1990)
– The Dark Half (1993)
– Chill Factor: House Call (2004)
– One for the Fire: The Legacy of ‘Night of the Living Dead’ (2008)
– Deadtime Stories (2009)
– Deadtime Stories 2 (2009)
– Into the Dark: Exploring the Horror Film (2009)
– The Crazies (2010)

Writer:
– Night of the Living Dead (1968)
– Hungry Wives (1972)
– The Crazies (1973)
– Martin (1977)
– Dawn of the Dead (1978)
– Knightriders (1981)
– Trick or Treat (Pilot) (1983)
– Tales from the Darkside (4 episodes, 1983-1986)
– The Devil’s Advocate (1985)
– Day of the Dead (1985)
– Baker’s Dozen (1986)
– The Circus (1986)
– Creepshow 2 (1987)
– Monkey Shines (1988)
– Night of the Living Dead (1990)
– Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
– Due occhi diabolici (1990)
– The Dark Half (1993)
– Bruiser (2000)
– Dawn of the Dead (2004)
– Land of the Dead (2005)
– Night of the Living Dead Survivor’s Cut (2005)
– Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
– Diary of the Dead (2007)
– Il pianto della statua (2007)
– Day of the Dead (2008)
– Survival of the Dead (2009)
– The Crazies (2010)

Editor:
– Night of the Living Dead (1968) (uncredited)
– There’s Always Vanilla (1971)
– Hungry Wives (1972)
– The Crazies (1973)
– O.J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose (1974)
– Martin (1977)
– Dawn of the Dead (1978)
– Knightriders (1981)
– Creepshow (1982)

Cinematographer:
– Night of the Living Dead (1968) (uncredited)
– There’s Always Vanilla (1971)
– Hungry Wives (1972)

Actor:
– Night of the Living Dead (1968) (uncredited)
– There’s Always Vanilla (1971) (voice)
– The Crazies (1973) (uncredited)
– Martin (1977)
– Dawn of the Dead (1978) (uncredited)
– Day of the Dead (1985) (uncredited)
– Flight of the Spruce Goose (1986)
– The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (uncredited)
– Diary of the Dead (2007) (uncredited)
– The I Scream Man (2009)

Short Bio and Review:
After graduating from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie-Mellon University in 1960, he began his career shooting commercials and short films. In the late 1960’s Romero and some friends formed Image Ten Productions and in 1968 they went on to produce what became one of the most celebrated horror films of all time; Night of the Living Dead which became a cult classic horror film and was a defining moment for the modern zombie horror genre.

Romero, not only a filmmaker, has dabbled in many arenas, such as comics with DC Comics title Toe Tags with a six-issue miniseries titled The Death of Death; games, with the game companyHip Interactive in creating a game called City of the Dead, unfortunately the game was canceled midway due to the financial problems of Hip Interactive; novels; and webisodes called Zombisodes, a combination of a series of “Making of” shorts and story expansion detailing the work behind the film Diary of the Dead.

Today he is practically the godfather of zombie horror.

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