Name
Monte Hellman
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1929-07-12
Deathday
2021-04-20 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Monte Hellman (born Monte Jay Himmelbaum; July 12, 1929 — April 20, 2021) was an American film director, producer, writer, and editor. He was born in New York City, where his parents were visiting, but he grew up in Los Angeles.Hellman began his career as an editor's apprentice at ABC TV, and made his directorial debut with the horror film "Beast from Haunted Cave" (1959), produced by Roger Corman.
He would later gain critical recognition for the Westerns "The Shooting" and "Ride in the Whirlwind" (both 1966) starring Jack Nicholson, and the independent road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop" (1971) starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. His later directorial work included the slasher film "Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!" (1989) and the independent thriller "Road to Nowhere" (2010).
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Known For
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Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film...
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A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of ...
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Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the...
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Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere,...
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Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse...
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A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a dri...
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Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of or...
- 1999 L.A. Without a Map as Himself
- 2003 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
- 1993 Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron as Self
- 1998 Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
- 1987 Someone to Love as Attendee / Richard
- 1986 Plunging On Alone: Monte Hellman's Life in a Day as Himself
- 2006 Wanderlust as Himself
- 1987 Out of the Blue and Into the Black as Self
- 1994 Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder as Self
- 1989 Hellman Rider as himself
- 1985 Room 666 as Self
- 1971 The Christian Licorice Store as Joseph
- 2007 Make it Three Yards: A Conversation with James Taylor as Self
- 2013 A Fuller Life as Self - Reader (segment "Vision of the Impossible")
- 2010 Godard Made in USA as Self
- 1993 Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self
- 2011 Produce Your Own Damn Movie! as Self
- 2003 A Decade Under the Influence as Self
- 1979 An Almost Perfect Affair as Monte Hellman on Filmfestival in Cannes
- 2005 Reservoir Dogs Revisited as Self
