Robert Aldrich
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American film director, screenwriter and producer (1918–1983)
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It is catalogued under topics including 1918 births, 1983 deaths and 20th-century American businesspeople.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1954
- Works
- 37
Top works
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 93
- Total plays
- 221
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,697x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,496x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,766x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,726x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,428x
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Key facts
- Born
- Robert Burgess Aldrich , ( 1918-08-09 ) August 9, 1918, Cranston, Rhode Island , U.S.
- Died
- December 5, 1983 (1983-12-05) (aged 65), Los Angeles , California , U.S.
- Resting place
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
- Alma mater
- University of Virginia
- Occupations
- Film director producer screenwriter
- Years active
- 1945–1981
- Spouses
- Harriet Foster ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1965 ) Sibylle Siegfried ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1966 – 1983 )
- Children
- 4 (with Foster)
- Relatives
- Nelson W. Aldrich (grandfather) Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (aunt) John D. Rockefeller Jr. (uncle) Nelson Rockefeller (cousin)
- Awards
- See below
- Preceded by
- Robert Wise
- Succeeded by
- George Schaefer
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film) 1962 - Production photo. Robert Aldrich, Bette Davis.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1918-08-09
- date of death
- 1983-12-05
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- Robert Aldrich
- start of work period
- 1945-00-00
- birth name
- Robert Burgess Aldrich
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed mainly films noir, war movies, westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones. His most notable credits include Vera Cruz (1954), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), Autumn Leaves (1956), Attack (1956), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and The Longest Yard (1974).
Containing a "macho mise-en-scène and resonant reworkings of classic action genres," Aldrich's films were known for pushing the boundaries of violence in mainstream cinema, as well as for their psychologically complex interpretations of genre film tropes. The British Film Institute wrote that Aldrich's work displays "a subversive sensibility in thrall to the complexities of human behaviour." Several of his films later influenced the French New Wave.
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