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Rod Amateau

Highest Rated: 0% The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)

Birthday: Dec 20, 1923

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

After starting his career as a writer for CBS radio, Rod Amateau worked his way up the 20th Century Fox ladder from junior writer to test director to second-unit director to dialogue director before finally making his feature directorial debut with "The Bushwackers" (1952), a Western of interest mostly for the sermonizing in his (and Tom Gries') script, which offered parallels to the political climate in America during the post-Civil War and post-World War II eras. Though he directed another film that year ("Monsoon"), he would not return to features for 17 years, carving out instead a substantial career as a producer-director-writer of TV series, beginning with "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" (CBS, 1950-58).

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Highest-Rated Movies

0% 27% The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
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Hitler's Son
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53% Drive-In
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Monsoon
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The Statue
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60% Where Does It Hurt?
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Swimsuit
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The Bushwhackers
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40% Lovelines
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Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
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Filmography

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Swimsuit 1989 Producer The Garbage Pail Kids Movie 0% 27% 1987 Director, Writer, Producer Lovelines 40% 1984 Director High School U.S.A. 39% 1983 Director Uncommon Valor 1983 Director Hitler's Son 1978 Director The Seniors 0% 1977 Director Drive-In 53% 1976 Director Where Does It Hurt? 60% 1972 Director, Producer, Screenwriter The Statue 1971 Director Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You 1970 Director, Screenwriter Hook, Line & Sinker 38% 1969 Screenwriter Monsoon 1953 Director The Bushwackers 1952 Director The Bushwhackers 1951 Director, Screenwriter
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