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Rodney Amateau is a Director, Scriptwriter, Other and Stunts American born on 20 december 1923 at New York City (USA)
Rodney "Rod" Amateau (December 20, 1923 – June 29, 2003) 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, Mister Ed, The Bob Cummings Show, starring Robert Cummings, and The New Phil Silvers Show, an unsuccessful attempt by comedian Phil Silvers to return to a regular series.
He was producer of TV shows such as My Mother the Car and Supertrain, and wrote the story for the 1988 film Sunset.
Rod also directed a few episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard. He even appeared in a few of them.
He is perhaps most infamous for directing 1987's critically panned The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
From 1945–1949, he was married to actress Coleen Gray, who sued him for child support in 1955.
(1955)
(Stunt Double)
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Nationality USA
Birth 20 december 1923 at New York City (USA)
Death 29 june 2003 (at 79 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 20 december 1923 at New York City (USA)
Death 29 june 2003 (at 79 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Among programs that he directed were NBC's The Dennis Day Show, CBS's sitcoms The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, starring Dwayne Hickman, Mister Ed, The Bob Cummings Show, starring Robert Cummings, and The New Phil Silvers Show, an unsuccessful attempt by comedian Phil Silvers to return to a regular series.
He was producer of TV shows such as My Mother the Car and Supertrain, and wrote the story for the 1988 film Sunset.
Rod also directed a few episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard. He even appeared in a few of them.
He is perhaps most infamous for directing 1987's critically panned The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
From 1945–1949, he was married to actress Coleen Gray, who sued him for child support in 1955.
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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
, 1h37Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Musical films
Actors Mackenzie Astin, Anthony Newley, Phil Fondacaro, Katie Barberi, Jim Cummings, Debbie Lee Carrington
Rating27%
A garbage can spaceship is seen flying near Earth. The same garbage can is then shown inside an antique shop owned by Captain Manzini. A boy named Dodger is being assaulted by four bullies in a park. Juice, the leader, steals Dodger's money and drops him in a puddle. Dodger goes to Manzini's antique shop where he works. Manzini takes Dodger's clothes and cleans them while warning him to stay away from the garbage can. Later, Dodger sees Tangerine, Juice's girlfriend, who seems to be the most compassionate one towards Dodger, and tries to persuade her to buy something. Dodger is attracted to Tangerine and covertly smells her hair while she is distracted. The other bullies enter the shop and attempt to rough up Dodger again, but he manages to outwit them. However, amidst the tussle, the garbage can is knocked over. The bullies then bring Dodger into a sewer, handcuff him to a rail, and open a sewage pipe on him. Dodger is saved by little mysterious people named the Garbage Pail Kids.
Lovelines (1984)
, 1h33Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mary Beth Evans, Michael Winslow, Don Michael Paul, Todd Bryant, Frank Zagarino, Jonna Lee
Rating51%
The annual battle of the bands is raging. Two rival high schools, Malibu High School and Coldwater Canyon High, have two hot bands; The Firecats and Racer. When the lead singers of both bands, Piper (Evans) and Rick (Bradford), meet, they fall in love with each other and have to fight realities such as peer pressure, the fact they attend rival high schools and even Piper's older brother, Godzilla (Zagarino), try to stop their love from getting stronger. The telephone service called Lovelines, run by J.D. Prescott (Winslow), is right in the middle to help the two stay in love with each other and is also sponsoring the annual battle of the bands where their bands are competing with each other. It all comes down to a masquerade party where everyone from both schools learn that true love does indeed conquer all.
The Osterman Weekend (1983)
, 1h43Directed by Sam Peckinpah, Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Dennis Hopper, Craig T. Nelson, Meg Foster, Burt Lancaster
Rating57%
CIA director Maxwell Danforth (Lancaster) watches a filmed recording of agent Laurence Fassett (Hurt) and his wife making love. When Fassett goes into the bathroom to take a shower, two assassins enter the bedroom and kill his wife (Merete Van Kamp) by holding her down and injecting poison into her nostril with a syringe. It is suggested that the woman was an innocent bystander sacrificed by Danforth as collateral damage. Fassett, unaware of his employer's involvement, goes almost insane with grief and rage and begins to hunt down the assassins, eventually uncovering a Soviet spy network known as Omega.
High School U.S.A. (1983)
, 1h32Directed by Rodney Amateau, Jack Bender, Rod Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Michael J. Fox, Crispin Glover, Melody Anderson, Nancy McKeon, Todd Bridges, Frank Bank
Rating55%
The film focuses on the intrigue inside Excelsior Union High School. Michael J. Fox plays J.J. Manners, who becomes enamored with Beth Franklin (Nancy McKeon), the girlfriend of Beau Middleton (Edwards), the class president and quarterback. Middleton is also the richest student and drives around in a brand-new convertible.
The Seniors (1978)
, 1h27Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jeffrey Byron, Dennis Quaid, Gary Imhoff, Priscilla Barnes, Lou Richards, Alan Reed
Rating43%
Ben (Gary Imhoff), Larry (Jeffrey Byron), Alan (Dennis Quaid), and Steve (Lou Richards) are college seniors who are terrified at the prospect of working for a living. They create a plan to support themselves as graduate research students by getting a foundation grant to study sexuality in college-age women.
Drive-In (1976)
, 1h36Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Glenn Morshower, Trey Wilson, Ashley Cox
Rating61%
This script must be run from the command line
Where Does It Hurt? (1972)
, 1h27Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Peter Sellers, Jo Ann Pflug, Rick Lenz, Harold Gould, Hope Summers, Pat Morita
Rating54%
Pour garantir les profits de sa clinique privée, Albert P. Hopfnagel encourage la fraude à l'assurance et oblige ses chirurgiens à pratiquer des opérations coûteuses et surtout non nécessaires sur des patients. Après diverses péripéties, il finit par être découvert et condamné à la prison. À sa sortie, il revient à la clinique pour se faire opérer d'une appendicite par un chirurgien complice de ses anciennes malversations, dans le but d'attaquer par la suite la clinique. Sur la table d'opérations, il découvre que celui qui va l'opérer a été remplacé par son beau-frère, incompétent notoire qui ne sait même pas où se trouve l'appendice...
The Statue (1971)
, 1h24Directed by Rodney Amateau, Rod Amateau
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors David Niven, Virna Lisi, Robert Vaughn, Ann Bell, John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor
Rating48%
Professor Alex Bolt has developed a new universal language, Unispeak, which has made him internationally famous. His wife Rhonda has made a sculpture of her husband at the behest of the US State Department, commissioned by his friend, US Ambassador to England, Ray, for $50,000, in order to promote Unispeak. It is intended that the sculpture be unveiled in London's Grosvener Square.
, 1h39Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Ian McShane, John Gavin, Anna Calder-Marshall, Beba Loncar, Severn Darden, Leopoldo Trieste
Rating44%
The Bushwhackers (1952)
, 1h10Directed by Rodney Amateau, Rod Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Western
Actors John Ireland, Wayne Morris, Lawrence Tierney, Dorothy Malone, Lon Chaney, Jr., Jack Elam
Rating56%
Tired of killing, war veteran Jefferson Waring rides west, but in Missouri he sees "squatters" mowed down by men working for rich, ruthless Artemus Taylor.
Monsoon (1952)
, 1h19Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ursula Thiess, Diana Douglas, George Nader, Ellen Corby, Philip Stainton, Myron Daniel Healey
Rating46%
A well established gentleman falls in love with his fiancé's sister.
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Sunset (1988)
, 1h43Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Buddy films
Actors Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Denise Quinlan, M. Emmet Walsh
Roles Story
Rating57%
In Hollywood in the late 1920s during the waning days of the industry's transition to sound film, producer and studio head Alfie Alperin wants to produce a great Western movie about Wyatt Earp. Tom Mix is cast as the great United States Marshal and the real Earp is on set as a technical adviser. But while Earp and Mix are involved in their movie adventure, they also get caught up in a real case of murder, prostitution, and corruption. Together they try to straighten out the problems of the missing son of Earp's former girlfriend, Christina. She is now the wife of studio boss Alfie Alperin and he isn't amused by Earp's investigations. Alfie's sister Victoria Alperin is dating a notorious mobster and all three were at the scene of the murder of madam Candice Gerard. Soon Earp unveils the true sadistic character of Alfie Alperin. Mix and Earp get to fight a real gunfight at a real isolated ranch, with Mix telling Earp "I wish there was a camera here" before drawing a real gun.
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
, 1h37Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Musical films
Actors Mackenzie Astin, Anthony Newley, Phil Fondacaro, Katie Barberi, Jim Cummings, Debbie Lee Carrington
Roles Author
Rating27%
A garbage can spaceship is seen flying near Earth. The same garbage can is then shown inside an antique shop owned by Captain Manzini. A boy named Dodger is being assaulted by four bullies in a park. Juice, the leader, steals Dodger's money and drops him in a puddle. Dodger goes to Manzini's antique shop where he works. Manzini takes Dodger's clothes and cleans them while warning him to stay away from the garbage can. Later, Dodger sees Tangerine, Juice's girlfriend, who seems to be the most compassionate one towards Dodger, and tries to persuade her to buy something. Dodger is attracted to Tangerine and covertly smells her hair while she is distracted. The other bullies enter the shop and attempt to rough up Dodger again, but he manages to outwit them. However, amidst the tussle, the garbage can is knocked over. The bullies then bring Dodger into a sewer, handcuff him to a rail, and open a sewage pipe on him. Dodger is saved by little mysterious people named the Garbage Pail Kids.
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
, 1h45Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee, Rutger Hauer, Saeed Jaffrey
Rating63%
In apartheid-era South Africa, Shack Twala (played by Sidney Poitier), a black revolutionary who had served time on Robben Island, is freed by Rina van Niekerk (Prunella Gee), his Afrikaner defence attorney, because he would be a victim of retroactive legislation. Rina, estranged from her husband Blane (Rutger Hauer), is having a relationship with an English mining engineer, Jim Keogh (Michael Caine), who has attended Shack's trial. Surprised by the verdict, Rina, Jim and Shack go off to celebrate at her house. They are stopped by the South African Police who are conducting identity document checks and arresting everyone who does not have their papers on them. As Shack has only just been released from prison he will not receive his papers until the next day. The police Constable and Shack antagonise each other leading to Shack being handcuffed and arrested. When Rina attempts to pull the Constable off Shack, the policeman hits her, knocking her to the ground. Jim assaults and knocks out the Constable making all three fugitives.
Where Does It Hurt? (1972)
, 1h27Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Peter Sellers, Jo Ann Pflug, Rick Lenz, Harold Gould, Hope Summers, Pat Morita
Roles Novel
Rating54%
Pour garantir les profits de sa clinique privée, Albert P. Hopfnagel encourage la fraude à l'assurance et oblige ses chirurgiens à pratiquer des opérations coûteuses et surtout non nécessaires sur des patients. Après diverses péripéties, il finit par être découvert et condamné à la prison. À sa sortie, il revient à la clinique pour se faire opérer d'une appendicite par un chirurgien complice de ses anciennes malversations, dans le but d'attaquer par la suite la clinique. Sur la table d'opérations, il découvre que celui qui va l'opérer a été remplacé par son beau-frère, incompétent notoire qui ne sait même pas où se trouve l'appendice...