Director
Robert Aldrich
August 9, 1918 · Cranston, Rhode Island, USA
Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Dirty Dozen (1967).
Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, the son of Lora Lawson and newspaper publisher Edward Burgess Aldrich. He was a grandson of U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and a cousin of Nelson Rockefeller. He studied economics at the University of Virginia. In 1941, he dropped out of college for a $50-a-week job at RKO Radio Pictures. In doing so, he was also dropped by his family, losing a potential stake in Chase Bank he would have inherited. It's been said that "No American film director was born as wealthy as Aldrich—and then so thoroughly cut off from family money."
Notable work
Often works with
Richard Jaeckel
6 titles together
The Dirty Dozen, Ulzana's Raid, Attack
Wesley Addy
5 titles together
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Ernest Borgnine
4 titles together
The Dirty Dozen, The Flight of the Phoenix, Vera Cruz
Charles Bronson
4 titles together
The Dirty Dozen, Vera Cruz, Apache
Marjorie Bennett
4 titles together
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, 4 for Texas
Jack Elam
4 titles together
Kiss Me Deadly, Vera Cruz, The Last Sunset
Full filmography · 36
...All the Marbles
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19816.1
The Frisco Kid
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19796.1
The Choirboys
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19775.4
Twilight's Last Gleaming
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19776.5
The Longest Yard
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19746.7
Emperor of the North
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19736.8
Ulzana's Raid
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19726.9
The Grissom Gang
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19716.7
Too Late the Hero
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19706.4
The Greatest Mother of 'em All
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1969
The Killing of Sister George
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19686.2
The Legend of Lylah Clare
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19686