Rod Amateau

Scriptwriter + Comedian + Producer

Male

Born Dec 20, 1923

Hometown United States

Died Jun 29, 2003

Death Place Los Angeles, Cali...

Rodney "Rod" Amateau was an American screenwriter, film and television director. Among programs that he directed were NBC's The Dennis Day Show, CBS's sitcoms The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, starring Dwayne Hickman, and The New Phil Silvers Show, an unsuccessful… Read More

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Gloria Grahame
Dated 1947
Coleen Gray
Married 1944 - 1949

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The Scariest Creatures In Film Crave Online
Google News - Aug 15, 2011

Rod Amateau, 1987) We never actually said that the creatures on this list had to be from a “horror” movie, although The Garbage Pail Kids Movie qualifies in everything but intent. The last directorial effort of Rod Amateau – famous for directing such
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Rod Amateau, 79, A Creative Mainstay Of 50's Prime Time Series
NYTimes - Jul 03, 2003

Rod Amateau, a movie veteran who worked on classic early television comedies like ''Dobie Gillis'' and the Bob Cummings and Burns and Allen shows as a writer, director or producer, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 79. The cause was a cerebral hemorrhage, said his friend Jerry Pam. Born Rodney Amateau in New York, he started as a writer for CBS
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Review/Film; Tom Mix, In A Talkie In A Talkie
NYTimes - Apr 29, 1988

LEAD: ''Sunset,'' opening today at the Criterion and other theaters, is a Blake Edwards film that will keep dedicated film scholars busy for the next 50 years. ''Sunset,'' opening today at the Criterion and other theaters, is a Blake Edwards film that will keep dedicated film scholars busy for the next 50 years. With all of the lightness of touch
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Film: Anthony Newley In 'Garbage Pail Kids'
NYTimes - Aug 22, 1987

LEAD: Where is Miss Manners when you need her? If only she'd been there to break up the big fight scene, when some vile children go on a rampage - one clears the room with nearly fatal flatulence, another vomits on her enemies. Where is Miss Manners when you need her? If only she'd been there to break up the big fight scene, when some vile children
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1923 Birth Born on December 20, 1923.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1987 63 Years Old He is perhaps most infamous for directing 1987's critically panned The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.

1988 64 Years Old He was producer of such tv shows as My Mother the Car and Supertrain, and wrote the story for the 1988 film Sunset. … Read More

2003 80 Years Old Died on June 29, 2003.

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