Robert Aldrich
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American film director, screenwriter and producer (1918–1983)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1954
- Works
- 37
Top works
- France in world politics
- An economic and social history of Europe from 1939 to the present
- An economic and social history of Europe, 1890-1939
- Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History:From Antiquity to World War II
- The last colonies
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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
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cranston
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Virginia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film) 1962 - Production photo. Robert Aldrich, Bette Davis.jpg
- Work location
- United States
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- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- date of birth
- 1918-08-09
- date of death
- 1983-12-05
- Commons category
- Robert Aldrich
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- start of work period
- 1945-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Robert Aldrich
- different from
- Robert Andrich
- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Aldrich” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.