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Larry Buchanan
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor Born: 1924 Death: December 2, 2004 in Tucson, AZ Biography:After making documentaries for evangelist Oral Roberts in the early 1950s, Buchanan assisted "George Cukor" on "The Marrying Kind"; he also appeared in several '50s films in small roles, including "Henry King"'s The Gunfinghter. In the 1960s he began helming a series of low-budget films, exploiting race ("Free, White And 21", "High Yellow"), sex ("Under Age") and the Kennedy assassination ("Naughty Dallas", a striptease-fest filmed in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club; "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald"). He also made a series of even-cheaper remakes of 1950s AIP science-fictioners: "The Eye Creatures", "In The Year 2889", "Creature of Destruction", and "Zontar, the Thing from Venus". His other efforts include the crime film "A Bullet for Pretty Boy"; the "Marilyn Monroe" biopics "Goodbye, Norma Jean" and "Good Night, Sweet Marilyn"; and the tale of interplanetary sexual frustration, "Mars Needs... Full Biography
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