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AKA:
Charles Rusell
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Charles Russell
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois
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From a job sweeping soundstages, Charles 'Chuck' Russell worked his way up to line producer and assistant director on low-budget items for Sunn Classics and for producer Roger Corman (as on "Death Race 2000," 1975). He copped his first producing credit on the modestly made and rather routine horror flick "The Hearse" (1980) and moved to executive status for the similarly derivative "Hell Night" (1981) and "The Seduction" (1982). Russell's first produced screenplay, "Dreamscape" (1984), showed considerably more imagination, with Dennis Quaid discovering he has the ability to enter other
Raised in the Chicago, Illinois area
Worked as an assistant director and a line producer for low-budget production companies including Sunn Classics and Roger Corman's New World Pictures
Worked for a time as an assistant director at American International Pictures (dates approximate)
1980
First producing credit, "The Hearse"
1981
First executive producer credit, "Hell Night"
1984
First screenplay credit, "Dreamscape" (written with David Loughery and director Joseph Ruben); also served as an associate producer
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