Auteur

Robert Aldrich

1918–1983 · American film director

Robert Burgess Aldrich 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).

Robert Aldrich, in order

  1. 1947 The Private Affairs of Bel Ami: directed
  2. 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV series): directed
  3. 1952 The First Time: produced · directed by Frank Tashlin
  4. 1953 Big Leaguer: directed
  5. 1954 Apache: directed
  6. 1954 Vera Cruz: directed · critics 93%, audiences 68% · streaming on Prime Video, MGM+, YouTube (free)
  7. 1954 World for Ransom: directed
  8. 1955 Kiss Me Deadly: directed, produced
  9. 1955 The Big Knife: directed, produced
  10. 1956 Attack: directed, produced
  11. 1956 Autumn Leaves: directed
  12. 1956 The Gamma People: wrote · directed by John Gilling
  13. 1957 The Garment Jungle: directed
  14. 1959 Ten Seconds to Hell: directed, wrote
  15. 1959 The Angry Hills: directed
  16. 1961 The Last Sunset: directed
  17. 1962 Sodom and Gomorrah: directed
  18. 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?: directed, produced
  19. 1963 4 for Texas: directed, wrote, produced
  20. 1964 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte: directed, produced
  21. 1965 The Flight of the Phoenix: directed, produced · critics 90%, audiences 81% · streaming on fuboTV
  22. 1967 The Dirty Dozen: directed · critics 82%, audiences 90% · streaming on Prime Video
  23. 1968 The Killing of Sister George: directed, produced
  24. 1968 The Legend of Lylah Clare: directed, produced
  25. 1969 What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?: produced · directed by Lee H. Katzin · audiences 64%
  26. 1970 The Greatest Mother of Them All: directed
  27. 1970 Too Late the Hero: directed, wrote, produced
  28. 1971 The Grissom Gang: directed, produced
  29. 1972 Ulzana's Raid: directed
  30. 1973 Emperor of the North Pole: directed · critics 67%, audiences 84%
  31. 1974 The Longest Yard: directed
  32. 1975 Hustle: directed, produced · critics 50%, audiences 46% · streaming on Hoopla
  33. 1977 The Choirboys: directed
  34. 1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming: directed
  35. 1979 The Frisco Kid: directed · critics 54%, audiences 67%
  36. 1981 ...All the Marbles: directed