Biography
Robert Burgess Aldrich was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed mainly films noir, war movies, westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones. His most notable credits include Vera Cruz (1954), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), Autumn Leaves (1956), Attack (1956), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and The Longest Yard (1974).
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Awards & recognition
- Silver Bear — Best Director · 1956
Filmography38 titles
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Limelight
The Dirty Dozen
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Big Leaguer
The Flight of the Phoenix
Autumn Leaves
Ulzana's Raid
The Longest Yard
The Last Sunset
Attack
Four Star Playhouse
The Big Night
The Prowler
Vera Cruz
Body and Soul
The Steel Trap
Caught
Force of Evil
The Southerner
Joan of Paris
Twilight's Last Gleaming
The Ride Back
The Falcon Takes Over
Ten Seconds to Hell
...All the Marbles
The Frisco Kid
Apache
The Red Pony
The Big Knife
Red Light
The Big Street
Hustle
Bombardier
The Choirboys
Sodom and Gomorrah
4 for Texas
New Mexico