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George A. Romero
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Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Executive Producer, Actor, Editor, Short Story Author Born: February 4, 1940 in Bronx, New York, NY Biography:American director "George A. Romero" was making films from the age of 14 -- like most teen movie enthusiasts, with an 8 mm camera. Matriculating into the industrial-film business in Pittsburgh, Romero accrued enough capital to make his first feature-length film in 1968, a graphically gruesome zombie picture entitled "Night of the Living Dead". Barely making back its cost on its initial release, the movie received some welcome, if adverse, publicity when Reader's Digest devoted an article to it. The magazine was appalled at the scenes of cannibalism and similar horrors, going so far as to insist that a movement be started to have the picture banned. Naturally, this made the movie more popular than ever, much more so than if Reader's Digest had simply ignored it. And the subsequent profits of "Night of the Living Dead" enabled Romero to finance several more low-budget scare pictures before he broke into... Full Biography
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