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Curtis Harrington
17 September 1926
Curtis Harrington played in 1 and created 9 movies in the Short, Music, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Musical genres.
Curtis Harrington got succeed with average imdb rating 6.
Curtis Harrington was an excellent and shamefully underrated essayist and director who specialized in marvelously way-out and atmospheric dejected-budget outside dismay pictures. Harrington was born on September 17th, 1926 in Los Angeles and grew up in Beaumont, California. A lifelong hardcore blear buff from a very young years, Harrington worked as a movie theater usher, a gofer at Paramount, and a stagehand during his younger days. He made his first 8mm work at age fourteen and attended UCLA. ... In the Unbelievable Wage war with II 40s and 50s Harrington made a bunch of theoretical avante garde nonconformist shorts which count "Torture," "Splinter of Seeking," "The Assignation," and "Wormwood Star." He was the cinematographer on Kenneth Anger's "Puce Moment" and acted in Indignation's "Inauguration of the Contentment Dome." Harrington also was involved with gink avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren. He began working inasmuch as Jerry Wald Productions at 20th Century Fox in 1957 and served as a producer's fellow-worker on not too big budget pictures that include "Peyton Locale" and "The Prolonged Horn-mad Summer." In 1961 Harrington made his indefatigable and powerful kisser length terror film appear with the nicely short and quirky "Gloaming Tide." His follow-up features were a pleasingly diverse, idiosyncratic and often engaging knot; said pictures embody the nifty sci-fi/distaste "Stranger" precursor "Queen of Blood," the delightfully campy Shelley Winters vehicles "Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?" and "What's the Matter With Helen?" (the latter was Harrington's personal favorite amongst all the movies he made), the perverse "The Killing Good-natured," and the immensely fun "Ruby." Into the bargain, Harrington directed a handful of solid and satisfying made-for-TV offerings: "How Shocking About Allan," "The Cat Living thing physical," "The Killer Bees," "The Dead Don't Give up the ghost," and the hilariously horrible "Rake Dog: The Hound of Erebus." In totting up, Harrington directed episodes of such popular TV shows as "E," "The Twilight Zone," "The Colbys," "Pension," "Wonder Moll," and "Charlie's Angels." Harrigton's final integument was the typically oddball interrupt "Usher." Curtis Harrington died at discretion 80 from complications following a stroke on May 6th, 2007.Read more Less
