Name
William Castle
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1914-04-25
Deathday
1977-06-01 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
William Castle (April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Castle was known for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Castle began directing films in the early 1940s, and later television, before moving on to the "gimmick films".
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Known For
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A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, know...
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Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them ...
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Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art directo...
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A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that hum...
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Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo...
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After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estrang...
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Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves invo...
- 1967 The Spirit Is Willing as Mr. Hymer
- 1966 Let's Kill Uncle as Russell Harrison (in car wreck) (uncredited)
- 1997 Hollywood Rated 'R' as Self (archive footage)
- 1961 Homicidal as Self, Prologue Host (Uncredited)
- 1974 Shanks as Grocer
- 1940 The Lady in Question as Angry Juror #1 (uncredited)
- 1974 The Sex Symbol as Jack P. Harper
- 1950 It's a Small World as Cop (uncredited)
- 1940 He Stayed for Breakfast as Policeman
- 1959 The Tingler as Prologue Host (uncredited)
- 1960 13 Ghosts as William Castle (uncredited)
- 1964 How to Plan a Movie Murder as Self
- 1975 Shampoo as Sid Roth
- 1962 Zotz! as William Castle (uncredited)
- 2007 Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story as Self (archive)
- 1975 The Day of the Locust as Director
- 1951 Hollywood Story as Himself (uncredited)
- 1944 When Strangers Marry as Man in Photograph Given to Police (uncredited)
- 1968 Rosemary's Baby as Phone Booth Man (uncredited)
- 2002 Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket' as Self (archive footage)
- 1961 Mr. Sardonicus as Self (uncredited)
- 2011 Larger Than Life: The Making of "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story" as Self (archive)
- 2002 Psychette: William Castle and "Homicidal" as Self (archive)
- 2002 Taking the Punishment Poll as Self (archive)
- Soon 13 Ghosts: The Magic of Illusion-O as Self (archive)
- 1999 Scream For Your Lives: William Castle and 'The Tingler' as Self (archive)
- 1972 Ghost Story ( 1 episode ) as J.B. Filmore
