Curtis Harrington

1927

2007

Director, Writer, Producer

Curtis Harrington was an American experimental filmmaker, director, producer, and screenwriter. In the 1940s and 1950s, he emerged as a filmmaker when he wrote and directed several experimental avante garde shorts. He served as the executive assistant to Jerry Wald from 1956 to 1961 and as an associate producer at 20th Century-Fox. Curtis largely discarded the "experimental" tradition in his feature work which specialized in low-budget horror pictures.

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