Meyer, Russ
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Birthname | Russell Elvan/Albion Meyer | ||||
born on | 21 March 1922 at 09:35 (= 09:35 AM ) | ||||
Place | Oakland, California, 37n48, 122w16 | ||||
Timezone | PST h8w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editor, actor, and photographer, known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful sexploitation films that featured campy humour, sly satire and large-breasted women, such as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) and Vixen! (1968).
His first feature, the naughty comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959), cost $24,000 to produce and eventually grossed more than $1 million on the independent/exploitation circuit, ensconcing Meyer as "King of the Nudies." Over the next decade, he made nearly 20 movies with a trademark blend of odd humour, huge-breasted starlets and All-American sleaze.
Starting in the mid-1990s Meyer had frequent fits and bouts of memory loss. By 2000, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. That same year, with no wife or children to claim his wealth, Meyer willed that the majority of his money and estate would be sent to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in honour of his late mother.
Russ Meyer died at his home in the Hollywood Hills, from complications of pneumonia, on 18 September 2004, aged 82.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Gavin, Erica (born 22 July 1947)
- associate relationship with Webber, Diane (born 29 July 1932)
- (has as) worker relationship with Capri, Alaina (born 11 June 1939)
Events
Source Notes
Frank C. Clifford quotes birth certificate on file (Russell Elvan Meyer, corrected by affidavit to Russell Albion Meyer on 30 September 1942).
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Alzheimer's/ Senility
- Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces (Two)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Three)
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Passions : Sexuality : Other Sexual (Liked large-breasted women)
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Pneumonia)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 82)
- Vocation : Art : Photography (Cinematographer)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Director (Film)
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Entertain Producer (Film)
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Production jobs (Film editor)
- Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script (Screenwriter)
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession ("King of the Nudies")
- 1922 births
- Birthday 21 March
- Birthplace Oakland, CA (US)
- Sun 0 Aries
- Moon 16 Capricorn
- Asc 9 Gemini
- 2004 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Alzheimer's/ Senility
- Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Passions : Sexuality : Other Sexual
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Art : Photography
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Director
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Entertain Producer
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Production jobs
- Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession