A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Hollywood, California, USA
Born:
July 25, 1929
Died:
June 21, 1995
Al Adamson (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was a prolific director of B-grade horror films throughout the 1960s and 1970s. After assisting his father, Victor Adamson, in making the 1963 movie Halfway to Hell, Adamson decided to work in the motion picture industry himself. Three years later, he and Sam Sherman founded Independent-International Pictures, which became the vehicle for the many movies he directed. Among them are Psycho-A-Go-Go (later worked into Blood of Ghastly Horror), Satan's Sadists, Horror of the Blood Monsters, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, and Five Bloody Graves. After Adamson was reported missing for five weeks in 1995, after which law enforcement officials discovered his murdered corpse beneath the concrete and tile-covered whirlpool bath in his newly remodeled bathroom. The perpetrator was his live-in contractor Fred Fulford who, after being apprehended at the Coral Reef hotel on St Pete Beach, Florida, was charged with and convicted of murder, and was sentenced to twenty-five-years in prison. Description above from the Wikipedia article Al Adamson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Director:
1960 Half Way to Hell
1965 Psycho a Go-Go
1967 Blood Of Ghastly Horror
1967 The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1969 Blood of Dracula's Castle
1969 Five Bloody Graves
1969 Satan's Sadists
1970 Hell's Bloody Devils
1970 Horror of the Blood Monsters
1971 Brain of Blood
1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971 Nurses for Sale
1971 The Female Bunch
1972 Angel's Wild Women
1972 Lash of Lust
1974 Girls for Rent
1974 Mean Mother
1974 The Dynamite Brothers
1975 Blazing Stewardesses
1975 Jessi's Girls
1975 The Naughty Stewardesses
1976 Black Heat
1976 Black Samurai
1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1977 Cinderella 2000
1978 Bedroom Stewardesses
1978 Death Dimension
1978 Doctor Dracula
1978 Nurse Sherri
1978 Sunset Cove
1983 Carnival Magic
1983 Lost
Idea:
1960 Half Way to Hell
1965 Psycho a Go-Go
1967 Blood Of Ghastly Horror
1967 The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1969 Blood of Dracula's Castle
1969 Five Bloody Graves
1969 Satan's Sadists
1970 Hell's Bloody Devils
1970 Horror of the Blood Monsters
1971 Brain of Blood
1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971 Nurses for Sale
1971 The Female Bunch
1972 Angel's Wild Women
1972 Lash of Lust
1974 Girls for Rent
1974 Mean Mother
1974 The Dynamite Brothers
1975 Blazing Stewardesses
1975 Jessi's Girls
1975 The Naughty Stewardesses
1976 Black Heat
1976 Black Samurai
1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1977 Cinderella 2000
1978 Bedroom Stewardesses
1978 Death Dimension
1978 Doctor Dracula
1978 Nurse Sherri
1978 Sunset Cove
1983 Carnival Magic
1983 Lost
Original Story:
1960 Half Way to Hell
1965 Psycho a Go-Go
1967 Blood Of Ghastly Horror
1967 The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1969 Blood of Dracula's Castle
1969 Five Bloody Graves
1969 Satan's Sadists
1970 Hell's Bloody Devils
1970 Horror of the Blood Monsters
1971 Brain of Blood
1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971 Nurses for Sale
1971 The Female Bunch
1972 Angel's Wild Women
1972 Lash of Lust
1974 Girls for Rent
1974 Mean Mother
1974 The Dynamite Brothers
1975 Blazing Stewardesses
1975 Jessi's Girls
1975 The Naughty Stewardesses
1976 Black Heat
1976 Black Samurai
1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1977 Cinderella 2000
1978 Bedroom Stewardesses
1978 Death Dimension
1978 Doctor Dracula
1978 Nurse Sherri
1978 Sunset Cove
1983 Carnival Magic
1983 Lost
Producer:
1960 Half Way to Hell
1965 Psycho a Go-Go
1967 Blood Of Ghastly Horror
1967 The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1969 Blood of Dracula's Castle
1969 Five Bloody Graves
1969 Satan's Sadists
1970 Hell's Bloody Devils
1970 Horror of the Blood Monsters
1971 Brain of Blood
1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971 Nurses for Sale
1971 The Female Bunch
1972 Angel's Wild Women
1972 Doomsday Voyage
1972 Hammer
1972 Lash of Lust
1973 Cry Rape
1974 Girls for Rent
1974 Mean Mother
1974 The Dynamite Brothers
1975 Blazing Stewardesses
1975 Jessi's Girls
1975 The Naughty Stewardesses
1976 Black Heat
1976 Black Samurai
1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1977 Cinderella 2000
1978 Bedroom Stewardesses
1978 Death Dimension
1978 Doctor Dracula
1978 Nurse Sherri
1978 Sunset Cove
1983 Carnival Magic
1983 Lost
Screenstory:
1960 Half Way to Hell
1965 Psycho a Go-Go
1967 Blood Of Ghastly Horror
1967 The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1969 Blood of Dracula's Castle
1969 Five Bloody Graves
1969 Satan's Sadists
1970 Hell's Bloody Devils
1970 Horror of the Blood Monsters
1971 Brain of Blood
1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971 Nurses for Sale
1971 The Female Bunch
1972 Angel's Wild Women
1972 Doomsday Voyage
1972 Hammer
1972 Lash of Lust
1973 Cry Rape
1974 Girls for Rent
1974 Mean Mother
1974 The Dynamite Brothers
1975 Blazing Stewardesses
1975 Jessi's Girls
1975 The Naughty Stewardesses
1976 Black Heat
1976 Black Samurai
1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1977 Cinderella 2000
1978 Bedroom Stewardesses
1978 Death Dimension
1978 Doctor Dracula
1978 Nurse Sherri
1978 Sunset Cove
1983 Carnival Magic
1983 Lost
Story:
1960 Half Way to Hell
1965 Psycho a Go-Go
1967 Blood Of Ghastly Horror
1967 The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1969 Blood of Dracula's Castle
1969 Five Bloody Graves
1969 Satan's Sadists
1970 Hell's Bloody Devils
1970 Horror of the Blood Monsters
1971 Brain of Blood
1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971 Nurses for Sale
1971 The Female Bunch
1972 Angel's Wild Women
1972 Doomsday Voyage
1972 Hammer
1972 Lash of Lust
1973 Cry Rape
1974 Girls for Rent
1974 Mean Mother
1974 The Dynamite Brothers
1975 Blazing Stewardesses
1975 Jessi's Girls
1975 The Naughty Stewardesses
1976 Black Heat
1976 Black Samurai
1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1977 Cinderella 2000
1978 Bedroom Stewardesses
1978 Death Dimension
1978 Doctor Dracula
1978 Nurse Sherri
1978 Sunset Cove
1983 Carnival Magic
1983 Lost
Stunt Double:
1960 Half Way to Hell
1965 Psycho a Go-Go
1967 Blood Of Ghastly Horror
1967 The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1969 Blood of Dracula's Castle
1969 Five Bloody Graves
1969 Satan's Sadists
1970 Hell's Bloody Devils
1970 Horror of the Blood Monsters
1971 Brain of Blood
1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971 Nurses for Sale
1971 The Female Bunch
1972 Angel's Wild Women
1972 Doomsday Voyage
1972 Hammer
1972 Lash of Lust
1973 Cry Rape
1974 Girls for Rent
1974 Mean Mother
1974 The Dynamite Brothers
1975 Blazing Stewardesses
1975 Jessi's Girls
1975 The Naughty Stewardesses
1976 Black Heat
1976 Black Samurai
1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1977 Cinderella 2000
1978 Bedroom Stewardesses
1978 Death Dimension
1978 Doctor Dracula
1978 Nurse Sherri
1978 Sunset Cove
1983 Carnival Magic
1983 Lost
Writer:
1960 Half Way to Hell
1965 Psycho a Go-Go
1967 Blood Of Ghastly Horror
1967 The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1969 Blood of Dracula's Castle
1969 Five Bloody Graves
1969 Satan's Sadists
1970 Hell's Bloody Devils
1970 Horror of the Blood Monsters
1971 Brain of Blood
1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971 Nurses for Sale
1971 The Female Bunch
1972 Angel's Wild Women
1972 Doomsday Voyage
1972 Hammer
1972 Lash of Lust
1973 Cry Rape
1974 Girls for Rent
1974 Mean Mother
1974 The Dynamite Brothers
1975 Blazing Stewardesses
1975 Jessi's Girls
1975 The Naughty Stewardesses
1976 Black Heat
1976 Black Samurai
1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1977 Cinderella 2000
1978 Bedroom Stewardesses
1978 Death Dimension
1978 Doctor Dracula
1978 Nurse Sherri
1978 Sunset Cove
1983 Carnival Magic
1983 Lost
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