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AKA:
George Andrew Romero
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George A Romero
Birthplace:
New York, New York
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This Pittsburgh-based independent filmmaker was a pivotal figure in the development of the contemporary horror film. Beginning with his first feature, "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), Romero not only upped the ante on explicit screen violence and gore but also offered an often satirical critique of American society that reflected the cultural upheavals of the late 1960s and early 70s. Ethnically and sexually integrated, pro-feminist, gay-friendly, anti-macho and skeptical about capitalism, his work represents the progressive wing of a sometimes reactionary genre. In Romero's films, the
Borrowed an eight-millimeter Revere camera from a wealthy uncle
1954
Arrested at age 14 for throwing a flaming dummy off a Bronx rooftop while filming "The Man From the Meteor"
Won a Future Scientists of America Award for "Earthbottom"; documentary produced as a high school science project
1958
Spent the summer before college working as a grip on Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest"
1963
Founded Latent Image (commercial/industrial production company) in Pittsburgh
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