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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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The Bushwhackers
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60% Where Does It Hurt?
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Swimsuit
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40% Lovelines
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39% High School U.S.A.
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Swimsuit Producer - 1989
0% 27% The Garbage Pail Kids Movie Director,
Writer,
Producer 		$661.5K 1987
No Score Yet 40% Lovelines Director - 1984
No Score Yet 39% High School U.S.A. Director - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Uncommon Valor Director - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hitler's Son Director - 1978
No Score Yet 0% The Seniors Director - 1977
No Score Yet 53% Drive-In Director - 1976
No Score Yet 60% Where Does It Hurt? Director,
Producer,
Screenwriter 		- 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Statue Director - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1970
No Score Yet 38% Hook, Line & Sinker Screenwriter - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Monsoon Director - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bushwackers Director - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bushwhackers Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1951

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dukes of Hazzard Manny (Guest Star),
Director 		1979-1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Mother the Car Director,
Producer 		1965-1966
90% 74% Gilligan's Island Director 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dobie Gillis Director,
Producer,
Writer 		1959-1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet The George Burns Show Director,
Producer 		1958-1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Burns and Allen Show Director 1956-1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lassie Director 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet G.E. Theater Director 1954