
About
George Kuchar
Overview
George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011) and his twin brother Mike began making films as teenagers in the 1950s, with 8mm film being their weapon of choice. After shocking their local amateur filmmaking club with their over-the-top stories of lust and angst, they became stars of the NYC underground scene in the 1960s, befriending the likes of Jonas Mekas and Jack Smith. Always working with the constraints of minuscule budgets and nonprofessional actors, the Kuchar’s inspiration comes from classic Hollywood melodrama. Their cheaply made pictures, rather than being held back by lack of funds, blossomed in the shackles of poverty; the garish colors of the cheap makeup and sets were perfectly complemented by the bold color range afforded by Kodachrome reversal stock. The wild (and sometimes the inverse of wild) acting, use of stock music, lack of synch sound, hyperbolic narration, and primitive special effects all combined to make tiny gems unlike anything seen before or since. The Kuchars are cited as major influences by such filmmakers as John Waters, Todd Solondz, and David Lynch.
Known for
Acting |
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2018 | That Woman | Actor | Barbara Walters | N/A N/A |
2017 | Oh Hi Anne | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2013 | (ir)reverence | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2013 | Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2011 | The Butchered Beefcake | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | Eat My Makeup! | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | Delectable Destinations | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | Calorie Cottage | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | Tummy Ache Times | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | The Nutrient Express | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | Vintage Visits | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | Webtide | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2009 | It Came from Kuchar | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2009 | Maggots and Men | Actor | 59 Average |
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2009 | The Hairy Horror | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2009 | Vault of Vapors | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2008 | 3 Stories About Evil | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2008 | Portrait of Genie | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2008 | Coven of the Heathenites | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2007 | 365 Day Project | Actor | 58 Average |
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2007 | Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2007 | Water Sports | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2006 | Hitchcocked! | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2006 | Meet The Kuchar Brothers | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2005 | Song of the Whoopee Wind | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2005 | George Kuchar: An Interview | Actor | George Kuchar | N/A N/A |
2004 | Electrocute Your Stars | Actor | 59 Average |
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2004 | Supercell | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2003 | Visitation Rites | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2003 | Burnout | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2002 | The Kingdom By The Sea | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2001 | Arizona Byways | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2000 | Divine Trash | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2000 | Metropolitan Monologues | Actor | Himself | 58 Average |
1999 | Secrets of the Shadow World | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
1999 | All Smiles and Sadness | Actor | Monologue Narrator | N/A N/A |
1999 | Chigger Country | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1998 | Brakhage | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
1998 | Bongwater | Actor | Homeless Man | 57 Average |
1998 | Domain of the Pixel Pixies | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1997 | Law of Desire | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1997 | The Inmate | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1996 | Sunset After Dark | Actor | George Kilman | 59 Average |
1996 | Vermin of the Vortex | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1996 | Uncle Evil | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1996 | Season of Sorrow | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1994 | Cellar Sinema | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1994 | Urchins of Ungawa | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1992 | Award | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1992 | Going Nowhere | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1992 | Sherman Acres | Actor | Ira | N/A N/A |
1991 | Scarlet Droppings | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
1991 | Weather Watch | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1991 | Gastronomic Getaway | Actor | 59 Average |
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1991 | Foto Spread | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1991 | Indian Summer | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1990 | Kiss of the Veggie Vixen | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1990 | Swamp | Actor | Uncle George | N/A N/A |
1990 | The Warming of the Hell House | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1990 | Rocky Interlude | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1990 | Snap 'n Snatch | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1990 | A Passage to Wetness | Actor | 59 Average |
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1989 | Migration of the Blubberoids | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1989 | Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1989 | 500 Millibars to Ecstasy | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1989 | Chili Line Stops Here | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1989 | Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1989 | Point 'n Shoot | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1989 | Precious Products | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1988 | Xmas 1987 New Years | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1988 | Return to the House of Pain | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1988 | Weather Diary 3 | Actor | 58 Average |
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1987 | Rainy Season | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1987 | The Creeping Crimson | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1987 | Video Album 5: The Thursday People | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1987 | Cult of the Cubicles | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1986 | Xmas 1986 | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1986 | He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
1986 | Weather Diary 1 | Actor | Himself | 58 Average |
1985 | Christmas 85 | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1985 | Sparkle's Tavern | Actor | Mr. Pupik | 59 Average |
1984 | Screamplay | Actor | Martin | 58 Average |
1983 | George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
1980 | Taboo: The Single and the LP | Actor | 59 Average |
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1978 | The Mongreloid | Actor | Himself | 58 Average |
1977 | I, an Actress | Actor | Director | 58 Average |
1977 | Wild Night in El Reno | Actor | 58 Average |
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1977 | George and Mike Kuchar | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1976 | George | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1976 | The Shadow Glass | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1975 | Thundercrack! | Actor | Bing / Medusa | 58 Average |
1975 | Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1974 | Nudes: A Sketchbook | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1974 | A Night with Gilda Peck | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1974 | Beaver Fever | Actor | Hunk | 59 Average |
1974 | True Blue and Dreamy | Actor | 59 Average |
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1973 | Boggy Depot | Actor | Damon | 58 Average |
1972 | Wieners and Buns Musical | Actor | Forrest | N/A N/A |
1972 | Confessions | Actor | 58 Average |
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1972 | Peed Into the Wind | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1971 | Portrait of Ramona | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1969 | Chronicles | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1968 | Underground New York | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1968 | Encyclopedia of the Blessed | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1967 | The Craven Sluck | Actor | Morton | 59 Average |
1967 | The Unclean | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1967 | Bill's Hat | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1966 | Galaxie | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1966 | The Secret of Wendel Samson | Actor | 59 Average |
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1966 | Hold Me While I'm Naked | Actor | 57 Average |
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1966 | River Windows | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1965 | Sins of the Fleshapoids | Actor | Prince Gianbeno | 58 Average |
1964 | Anita Needs Me | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1964 | Born of the Wind | Actor | 58 Average |
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1964 | Lust for Ecstasy | Actor | Father Nelson | N/A N/A |
1963 | Tootsies in Autumn | Actor | 59 Average |
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1963 | Confessions of Babette | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1962 | Night of the Bomb | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1958 | The Slasher | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Web of Fire | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Tropical Vulture | Actor | Dean | N/A N/A |
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East by Southwest | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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2024 | Kuchar-esque | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | The Butchered Beefcake | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | Empire of Evil | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | HotSpell | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Nibbles | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Zealots of the Zinc Zone | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Calorie Cottage | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Vintage Visits | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Delectable Destinations | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Webtide | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | The Nutrient Express | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Jewel of Jeopardy | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Lingo of the Lost | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Tummy Ache Times | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Room 666 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Zombies of Zanzibar | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | The Unmentionables | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Acid Redux | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Art Space | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Jamboree Journey | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Solstice | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Burrito Bay | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Vault of Vapors | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Celebrity Casino | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | The Hairy Horror | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Mellow Magic | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Libido Lagoon | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Seaside Show | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2008 | FlashBulb Alley | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | January Jubilee | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Eye on the Sky | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Spectral Delivery | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Pictographic Piles | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Portrait of Genie | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Coven of the Heathenites | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Orphans of the Cosmos | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | The Crypt of Frankenstein | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | X MASS | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Atrium of the Omni-Orb | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Water Sports | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | The Ghost of Dr Foo | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Garden of Goodies | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | I, of the Cyclops | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Faulty Fathoms | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2005 | The Fury of Frau Frankenstein | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2005 | George Kuchar: An Interview | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2005 | Dynasty of Depravity | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2005 | Song of the Whoopee Wind | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2004 | A Fatal Desire | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2004 | Temple of Torment | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2004 | Kaponga Island | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2004 | Supercell | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2003 | Butter Balls | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2003 | The Passion Pot | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2003 | Kiss of Frankenstein | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2003 | Visitation Rites | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2003 | Burnout | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2002 | The Gates of Gomorrah | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2002 | The Kingdom By The Sea | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2001 | Arizona Byways | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2001 | Honey Bunnies on Ice | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2000 | Metropolitan Monologues | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2000 | Cyclone Alley Ceramics | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2000 | Aquatica | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2000 | Planet of the Vamps | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1999 | Secrets of the Shadow World | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1999 | Chigger Country | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1998 | Phantom of the Pine Barrens | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1998 | Domain of the Pixel Pixies | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1997 | Oasis of the Pharaohs | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1997 | The Inmate | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1996 | Vermin of the Vortex | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1996 | Season of Sorrow | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1996 | Uncle Evil | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1995 | Society Slut | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1995 | Grotto of the Gorgons | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | Holidaze, 1994 | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1994 | Route 666 | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1994 | The Cage of Nicholas | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | The Tower of the Astro-Cyclops | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | Dingleberry Jingles | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | Nirvana of the Nebbishites | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | Tales of the Twilight Typist | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | Urchins of Ungawa | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | Cellar Sinema | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1993 | Andy's House of Gary | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1993 | Billion Dollar Bimbo: A Musical | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1993 | ID CAME FROM INNER SPACE | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1993 | Glacier Park Video Views | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1992 | Impaction of the Igneous | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1992 | Pilgrimage | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1992 | Sherman Acres | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1992 | Going Nowhere | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1992 | Award | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1991 | Scarlet Droppings | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1991 | The Fall of the House of Yasmin | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1991 | Weather Watch | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1991 | Indian Summer | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1991 | Foto Spread | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1991 | Dialogue of the Devil Dolls | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1991 | Gastronomic Getaway | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1990 | Kiss of the Veggie Vixen | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1990 | Snap 'n Snatch | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1990 | Weather Diary 6 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1990 | Rocky Interlude | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1990 | A Passage to Wetness | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1989 | Weather Diary 5 | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1989 | Migration of the Blubberoids | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Love Me True | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | 500 Millibars to Ecstasy | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Chili Line Stops Here | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Precious Products | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Point 'n Shoot | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | The Web of Doctor Satan | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Vile Cargo | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | La Verbotene Voyage | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1988 | Return to the House of Pain | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1988 | Weather Diary 3 | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1988 | We, the Normal | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1988 | Weather Diary 4 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1988 | Evangelust | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1988 | Low Light Life | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1988 | Summer of No Return | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1988 | Xmas 1987 New Years | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1987 | Rainy Season | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1987 | The Creeping Crimson | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1987 | Video Album 5: The Thursday People | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1987 | 1980 Seven | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1987 | Cult of the Cubicles | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1987 | Weather Diary 2 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1987 | Insanitorium | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1986 | Xmas 1986 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1986 | The Last Hello | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1986 | Weather Diary 1 | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1986 | Greetings from Boulder | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1986 | Video Album 3 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1985 | Christmas 85 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1985 | Motel Capri | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1985 | Ascension of the Demonoids | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1984 | The X-People | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1984 | Club Vatican | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1983 | Mom | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1983 | Cattle Mutilation | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1981 | Yolanda | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1980 | The Woman And The Dress | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1980 | The Nocturnal Immaculation | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1979 | The Power of the Press | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1979 | Blips | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1978 | Prescrition in Blue | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1978 | Symphony for a Sinner | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1978 | The Mongreloid | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1978 | Forever and Always | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1978 | One Night a Week | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1977 | I, an Actress | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1977 | Wild Night in El Reno | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1977 | The Asphalt Ribbon | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1976 | A Reason to Live | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1976 | Back to Nature | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1975 | The Devil's Cleavage | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1975 | The Desperate and The Deep | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1972 | The Sunshine Sisters | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1971 | Portrait of Ramona | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1970 | Pagan Rhapsody | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1968 | Unstrap Me | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1968 | The Mammal Palace | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1968 | Encyclopedia of the Blessed | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1968 | House of the White People | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1968 | Knocturne | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1967 | Color Me Shameless | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1967 | The Lady From Sands Point | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1967 | Eclipse of the Sun Virgin | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1967 | Mosholu Holiday | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1966 | Hold Me While I'm Naked | Directing | Director | 57 Average |
1966 | Color Me Lurid | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1966 | Leisure | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1965 | Corruption of the Damned | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1964 | Anita Needs Me | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1964 | Lust for Ecstasy | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1964 | Lovers of Eternity | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1963 | Tootsies in Autumn | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1963 | A Town Called Tempest | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1962 | A WOMAN DISTRESSED | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1962 | Sylvia’s Promise | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1962 | Night of the Bomb | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1961 | A Reel of Home Movies | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1961 | Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1960 | I Was a Teenage Rumpot | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1959 | The Thief and the Stripper | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1958 | The Slasher | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1957 | The Naked and the Nude | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1956 | A Tub Named Desire | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
East by Southwest | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Saga of Magda | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Tropical Vulture | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Writing |
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2024 | Kuchar-esque | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1994 | Holidaze, 1994 | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
1994 | Route 666 | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1989 | Weather Diary 5 | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1978 | Symphony for a Sinner | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
1978 | The Mongreloid | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1976 | Back to Nature | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1975 | Thundercrack! | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
1975 | The Devil's Cleavage | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
1966 | Hold Me While I'm Naked | Writing | Writer | 57 Average |
Production |
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1975 | The Devil's Cleavage | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
Art |
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1976 | The Apparition | Art | Set Designer | N/A N/A |
Camera |
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1996 | Vermin of the Vortex | Camera | Camera Operator | N/A N/A |
1994 | Holidaze, 1994 | Camera | Camera Operator | 59 Average |
1990 | The Warming of the Hell House | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
Crew |
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1993 | I Was a Teenage Serial Killer | Crew | Other | 58 Average |
1975 | The Devil's Cleavage | Crew | Cinematography | 58 Average |
Editing |
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1996 | Vermin of the Vortex | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
1994 | Holidaze, 1994 | Editing | Editor | 59 Average |
1987 | 1980 Seven | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
1986 | Video Album 3 | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
1986 | The Last Hello | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
1975 | The Devil's Cleavage | Editing | Editor | 58 Average |