Director

Al Adamson

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Directed movies: 29Directed series: 0All crew credits: 34

TMDB ID: 30678

IMDb ID: nm0011467

Known for: Directing

Born: July 25, 1929

Died: June 21, 1995

Age: 65

Place of birth: Hollywood, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1960 - 2019

Years active: 60

Average TMDB rating: 4.15

Wikidata: Q1995540

Also known as

Albert Adamson

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Director (29)Producer (4)Screenstory (1)

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Biography

Al Adamson (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was a prolific director of B-grade horror films throughout the 1960s and 1970s. After assisting his father, Victor Adamson, in making the 1963 movie Halfway to Hell, Adamson decided to work in the motion picture industry himself. Three years later, he and Sam Sherman founded Independent-International Pictures, which became the vehicle for the many movies he directed. Among them are Psycho-A-Go-Go (later worked into Blood of Ghastly Horror), Satan's Sadists, Horror of the Blood Monsters, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, and Five Bloody Graves. After Adamson was reported missing for five weeks in 1995, after which law enforcement officials discovered his murdered corpse beneath the concrete and tile-covered whirlpool bath in his newly remodeled bathroom. The perpetrator was his live-in contractor Fred Fulford who, after being apprehended at the Coral Reef hotel on St Pete Beach, Florida, was charged with and convicted of murder, and was sentenced to twenty-five-years in prison. Description above from the Wikipedia article Al Adamson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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