Chuck Russell
Highest Rated: 87% Back to School (1986)
Lowest Rated: 4% Bless the Child (2000)
Birthday: May 9, 1958
Birthplace: Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
From a job sweeping soundstages, Charles 'Chuck' Russell worked his way up to line producer and assistant director on low-budget items for Sunn Classics and for producer Roger Corman (as on "Death Race 2000," 1975). He copped his first producing credit on the modestly made and rather routine horror flick "The Hearse" (1980) and moved to executive status for the similarly derivative "Hell Night" (1981) and "The Seduction" (1982). Russell's first produced screenplay, "Dreamscape" (1984), showed considerably more imagination, with Dennis Quaid discovering he has the ability to enter other people's dreams. For several years Russell continued making ordinary teen-oriented fare, reteaming with Corman for "Body Rock" (1984). His most notable film during this period was the popular and enjoyable Rodney Dangerfield comedy, "Back to School" (1986).
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Filmography
Movies
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14% | 23% | Paradise City |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2022 |
40% | 74% | Junglee |
Director, Screenwriter |
$46.0K | 2019 |
10% | 32% | I Am Wrath | Director | - | 2016 |
86% | 84% | Collateral | Executive Producer | $100.0M | 2004 |
41% | 37% | The Scorpion King | Director | $90.3M | 2002 |
4% | 43% | Bless the Child | Director | $29.4M | 2000 |
43% | 39% | Eraser | Director | $101.3M | 1996 |
80% | 68% | The Mask |
Director, Executive Producer |
$119.9M | 1994 |
68% | 58% | The Blob |
Director, Screenwriter |
$7.8M | 1988 |
67% | 68% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Director | $44.1M | 1987 |
87% | 68% | Back to School | Producer | $89.2M | 1986 |
40% | 77% | Girls Just Want to Have Fun | Producer | - | 1985 |
57% | 44% | Hell Night | Executive Producer | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | 25% | The Hearse | Producer | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Shot | Wilson (Character) | - | 1973 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Space Ghost: Coast to Coast | Guest | 1995 |