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William Castle
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American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (1914–1977)
Film & TV
New York City, New York, USA
William Castle (April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Castle was known for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Castle began directing films in the early 1940s, and later television, before moving on to the "gimmick films". Description above from the Wikipedia…
Known for
- Larger Than Life: The Making of "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story" — Self (archive)2011
- Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story — Self (archive)2007
- Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket' — Self (archive footage)2002
- Psychette: William Castle and "Homicidal" — Self (archive)2002
- Taking the Punishment Poll — Self (archive)2002
- Scream For Your Lives: William Castle and 'The Tingler' — Self (archive)1999
- Hollywood Rated 'R' — Self (archive footage)1997
- Shampoo — Sid Roth1975
- The Day of the Locust — Director1975
- Shanks — Grocer1974
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Key facts
- Born
- William Schloss Jr. , ( 1914-04-24 ) April 24, 1914, New York City , New York , U.S.
- Died
- May 31, 1977 (1977-05-31) (aged 63), Los Angeles , California , U.S.
- Occupations
- Director producer screenwriter actor
- Years active
- 1937–1975
- Spouse
- Ellen Falck ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1948 )
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Official website
William Castle: From the grave...the William Castle Blog
William Castle -yes I am William Castle, the producer and director who made his living scaring the daylights out of you. Now I'm back from the grave with the official William Castle website.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.williamcastle.com
- Image
- William-Castle-1946.jpg
- Height
- 170
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- United States
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- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1914-04-24
- date of death
- 1977-05-31
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- William Castle
- related category
- Category:Films directed by William Castle
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Encyclopedic overview
William Castle (born William Schloss Jr.; April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American filmmaker and actor. He was best known as a director of horror and thriller B-movies in the 1950s and '60s, for which he devised innovative and distinctive promotional gimmicks.
Born in New York City and orphaned at 11, Castle dropped out of high school at 15 to work in the theater. He came to the attention of Columbia Pictures for his talent for promotion and was hired. He learned the trade of filmmaking and became a director, acquiring a reputation for being able to churn out competent B-movies quickly and on budget. He eventually struck out on his own, producing and directing thrillers, which, despite their low budgets, he effectively promoted using gimmicks, a trademark for which he is best known.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Castle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.