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David F. Friedman

Highest Rated: 45% 2,000 Maniacs (1964)

Lowest Rated: 33% Blood Feast (1963)

Birthday: Dec 24, 1923

Birthplace: Birmingham, Alabama, USA

A legendary producer of sexploitation films and low-budget gore-fests, David F. Friedman trained at the knee of the legendary promoter Kroger Babb in the 1940s, and worked with the equally notorious director Herschell Gordon Lewis in the 1960s. The son of a newspaper editor father, Friedman was born on Dec. 24, 1923 in Birmingham, AL, the only child of a well-to-do Southern family. Enchanted with show business, he was selling tickets at a local fair by the age of 12 and later landed a job doing publicity and bookings for Paramount Pictures. Following a break for WWII service, he stayed with the studio through 1956, working his way up to head of advertising and PR for the Chicago, IL area.

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Highest rated movies

45% 50% 2,000 Maniacs
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36% 42% Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
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33% 44% Blood Feast
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60% Sore Losers
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Bell, Bare and Beautiful
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The Defilers
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The Adventures of Lucky Pierre
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12% Scum of the Earth
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40% The Acid Eaters
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50% Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Thought Exchange Unknown (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 50% Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat Executive Producer - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Southern Discomfort Director,
Producer 		- 2002
No Score Yet 60% Sore Losers The Elder (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 0% Search for the Beast Milton St. John (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 40% Bikini Drive-In J.B. Winston (Character) - 1994
36% 42% Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS Producer - 1974
No Score Yet 50% That's Sexploitation Producer - 1973
No Score Yet 17% Trader Hornee Barroom Bum (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thar She Blows! Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1968
No Score Yet 40% The Acid Eaters Producer,
Cinematographer 		- 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Pick-Up Charlie Rosa (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 7% She Freak Producer,
Writer,
Screenwriter 		- 1967
No Score Yet 78% A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Defilers Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1965
No Score Yet 37% Color Me Blood Red Producer - 1965
45% 50% 2,000 Maniacs Producer,
Production Design 		- 1964
No Score Yet 12% Scum of the Earth Producer - 1963
33% 44% Blood Feast Writer,
Producer 		- 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bell, Bare and Beautiful Barney (Character),
Producer 		- 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Daughter of the Sun Writer,
Producer,
Sound 		- 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nature's Playmates Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Adventures of Lucky Pierre Writer,
Producer 		- 1961
No Score Yet 31% The Manster Cinematographer - 1959

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No Score Yet 74% The Smurfs Unknown (Character) 2022