Rod Amateau
Рождение : 1923-12-20, New York, New York, United States
Смерть : 2003-06-29
История
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Rodney "Rod" Amateau (December 20, 1923 – June 29, 2003) was an American screenwriter, film and television director.
Among programs that he directed were NBC's The Dennis Day Show, CBS's sitcoms The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, starring Dwayne Hickman, and The New Phil Silvers Show, an unsuccessful attempt by comedian Phil Silvers to return to a regular series.
Rod also directed a few episodes of the Dukes of Hazzards. He even appeared in a few of them.
He is perhaps most infamous for directing 1987's critically panned The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
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Story
Трудно быть легендарным борцом с преступностью, если тебя решили сделать кинозвездой, и твою роль теперь исполняет самовлюбленный и заносчивый голливудский пижон. Знаменитый шериф дикого запада Уайетт Эрп раздваивается — на экране он — бравый молодец в исполнении популярного актера, а в реальной жизни — настоящий, но не очень знаменитый герой. Когда же Голливуд потрясает одно из самых шокирующих и таинственных убийств, два Уайетта Эрпа объединяются.
Producer
Подросток дружит со странным владельцем антикварного магазина. Он позволяет ему трогать и рассматривать в своей лавке все, кроме старого помойного бака, всегда закрытого крышкой. Что произойдет когда крышка откроется?
Author
Подросток дружит со странным владельцем антикварного магазина. Он позволяет ему трогать и рассматривать в своей лавке все, кроме старого помойного бака, всегда закрытого крышкой. Что произойдет когда крышка откроется?
Director
Подросток дружит со странным владельцем антикварного магазина. Он позволяет ему трогать и рассматривать в своей лавке все, кроме старого помойного бака, всегда закрытого крышкой. Что произойдет когда крышка откроется?
Director
Greed, lust, dirty tricks and bloody fist fights... All those things that make life worth living. When Piper and Rick, the two hottest properties in the Battle of the Bands want to make it, only one thing stands in their way. They're from opposing High Schools. And Malibu High's 6'6" muscle-bound monster Godzilla is going to do everything and anything stop his sweet little sister getting it on with some jerk from the Coldwater Canyon High. When all else fails, only Lovelines answering service can keep them together.
Director
Действие разворачивается в школе, где идет подготовка к балу, и сосредотачивается вокруг любви маленького и худенького Джей-Джея Мэннерса к самой хорошей и красивой девушке в школе, которая официально является подругой самого богатого, красивого и выпендрежного подлеца. Спор между ними решается гонками на автомобилях, и девушка достается Джей-Джею.
Director
The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging conflagration at County General Hospital (a disaster enhanced by some pretty good special effects). They also have to battle the villain of the piece, discreetly described in the original network press release as a "deranged arsonist."
Sweeper Operator
Daytona Shepherd (Will Bledsoe) and his sister, Carole Lee (Mary Davis), operators of Good Shepherd Tow Service, are pitted against a band of dishonest tow truck operators.
Writer
Daytona Shepherd (Will Bledsoe) and his sister, Carole Lee (Mary Davis), operators of Good Shepherd Tow Service, are pitted against a band of dishonest tow truck operators.
Director
Daytona Shepherd (Will Bledsoe) and his sister, Carole Lee (Mary Davis), operators of Good Shepherd Tow Service, are pitted against a band of dishonest tow truck operators.
Director
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.
Director
Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business. Featuring a young Dennis Quaid in one of his earliest roles and Alan Reed (the original voice of Fred Flintstone) in his final film appearance.
Director
The adventures of a group of teenagers at a drive-in theatre in Texas one weekend night.
Screenplay
После десяти лет тюремного заключения Шэк Туала освобожден Верховным судом. Но Шэк один из тех обреченных людей, чье пребывание на свободе оказывается скоротечным: после стычки с полицией он вынужден пуститься в бега в компании британского инженера Джима Кеога. Единственный путь для товарищей по несчастью — бежать из страны. После разных ухищрений им удается заполучить самолет, чтобы перебраться через границу по воздуху. Но майор тайной полиции Хорн неумолимо идет по следу беглецов…
Producer
In this classic hospital farce, Peter Sellers plays Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel, a greedy, crooked hospital administrator who has perfected the art of bill padding, unnecessary surgery and kickbacks. Mistrusted by patients, and resented by other staffers, his assistant Alice can no longer endure his scams and plots to have him sent to prison - but not for long enough. Sellers again steals the show with an absurd and hilarious character study.
Novel
In this classic hospital farce, Peter Sellers plays Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel, a greedy, crooked hospital administrator who has perfected the art of bill padding, unnecessary surgery and kickbacks. Mistrusted by patients, and resented by other staffers, his assistant Alice can no longer endure his scams and plots to have him sent to prison - but not for long enough. Sellers again steals the show with an absurd and hilarious character study.
Director
In this classic hospital farce, Peter Sellers plays Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel, a greedy, crooked hospital administrator who has perfected the art of bill padding, unnecessary surgery and kickbacks. Mistrusted by patients, and resented by other staffers, his assistant Alice can no longer endure his scams and plots to have him sent to prison - but not for long enough. Sellers again steals the show with an absurd and hilarious character study.
Director
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue. The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative image. Can art and love reconcile?
Writer
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
Director
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
Story
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.
Screenplay
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.
Director
A young woman named Julia brings her fiance and his mother to a village in India to meet her father and brother. Hospitality proves in short supply and things take a turn for the worse when Julia's seductive younger sister arrives.
Screenplay
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his henchmen are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.
Director
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his henchmen are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.
Other
Диксон Стил, талантливый голливудский сценарист, сидит без работы из-за пьянства и язвительного характера. В один роковой вечер он пригласил к себе Милдред, чтобы поговорить о повести, предложенной ему для адаптации.
Через какое-то время алкоголь и болтовня девушки так утомили Стила, что он выгнал ее. А утром Милдред нашли мертвой и обезображенной… Все улики указывают на Стила, лишь начинающая старлетка Лорел Грей верит в его невиновность.
Stunts
В рождественский сочельник бывший вор Ник Бьянко вновь встает на скользкую тропу преступления. Поднявшись на верхний этаж небоскреба, он с двумя подельниками грабит ювелирный магазин и пробует скрыться, но в этот раз ему не везет. Раненый пулей Ник доставлен в участок. Помощник окружного прокурора Луи Д`Анжело пытается убедить Ника сдать своих скрывшихся с драгоценностями дружков в обмен на освобождение. Герой не соглашается и следует в тюрьму, надеясь, что заботу о его жене и дочерях возьмет на себя криминальный мир.
