William Castle
Born: 1914-04-25 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1977-06-01
Known For: Directing
Biography
William Castle (April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Castle was known for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Castle began directing films in the early 1940s, and later television, before moving on to the "gimmick films". Description above from the Wikipedia article William Castle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
2021
- Elvira's 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special ... (Director)
2007
2002
- Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket' as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Hollywood Rated 'R' as Self (archive footage)
1975
- Bug ... (Screenplay)
- Shampoo as Sid Roth
- The Day of the Locust as Director
1974
- Shanks as Grocer
- The Sex Symbol as Jack P. Harper
1972
- Ghost Story as J.B. Filmore
1969
- Riot ... (Producer)
1968
- Rosemary's Baby as Phone Booth Man (uncredited)
- Project X ... (Director)
1967
- The Busy Body ... (Director)
- The Spirit Is Willing as Mr. Hymer (uncredited)
1966
- Let's Kill Uncle as Russell Harrison (in car wreck) (uncredited)
1965
- I Saw What You Did ... (Director)
1964
- Strait-Jacket ... (Producer)
- The Night Walker ... (Producer)
- How to Plan a Movie Murder as Self
1963
- The Old Dark House ... (Producer)
- 13 Frightened Girls ... (Director)
1962
- Zotz! as Himself (prologue)
1961
- Homicidal as Self, Prologue Host (Uncredited)
- Mr. Sardonicus as Self (uncredited)
1960
- 13 Ghosts as Himself (uncredited)
1959
- The Tingler as Prologue Host (uncredited)
- House on Haunted Hill ... (Director)
1958
- Macabre ... (Director)
- Man with a Camera ... (Director)
1957
- Meet McGraw ... (Producer)
1956
- Uranium Boom ... (Director)
- The Houston Story ... (Director)
- The Man Called X ... (Director)
1955
- The Americano ... (Director)
- Science Fiction Theatre ... (Director)
- Duel on the Mississippi ... (Director)
- The Gun That Won the West ... (Director)
- New Orleans Uncensored ... (Director)
1954
- Battle of Rogue River ... (Director)
- Masterson of Kansas ... (Director)
- The Saracen Blade ... (Director)
- Drums of Tahiti ... (Director)
- The Law vs. Billy the Kid ... (Director)
- The Iron Glove ... (Director)
- Charge of the Lancers ... (Director)
- Jesse James vs. the Daltons ... (Director)
1953
- Fort Ti ... (Director)
- Serpent of the Nile ... (Director)
- Conquest of Cochise ... (Director)
- Slaves of Babylon ... (Director)
1951
- Hollywood Story as Himself (uncredited)
- The Fat Man ... (Director)
- Cave of Outlaws ... (Director)
1950
- It's a Small World as Cop (uncredited)
1949
- Undertow ... (Director)
- Johnny Stool Pigeon ... (Director)
1948
- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven ... (Director)
- The Gentleman from Nowhere ... (Director)
1947
- The Lady from Shanghai ... (Associate Producer)
- The Crime Doctor's Gamble ... (Director)
1946
- Mysterious Intruder ... (Director)
- Just Before Dawn ... (Director)
- Crime Doctor's Man Hunt ... (Director)
- The Return of Rusty ... (Director)
1945
- Dillinger ... (Writer)
- Voice of the Whistler ... (Director)
- The Crime Doctor's Warning ... (Director)
1944
- The Whistler ... (Director)
- When Strangers Marry as Man in Photograph Given to Police (uncredited)
- The Mark of the Whistler ... (Director)
- She's a Soldier Too ... (Director)
1943
- The Chance of a Lifetime ... (Director)
- Klondike Kate ... (Director)
- Black Marketing ... (Director)
1942
- North to the Klondike ... (Story)
1940
- The Lady in Question as Angry Juror #1 (uncredited)
- He Stayed for Breakfast as Policeman