Russ Meyer
Russ Meyer, (born March 21, 1922), is a American motion picture director.He made a number of amateur films at the age of 15, and worked during World War II as a newsreel cameraman. Upon returning to civilian life, he became a glamor photographer, and found himself working for Hugh Hefner's newly launched Playboy magazine.
From here, he became a director of nudie films. His films are more ribaldry than pornography, and seem unusually focused on women with large breasts. His later films are almost entirely devoted to this vision; his discoveries include Kitten Natividad and Uschi Digard. He co-wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with Roger Ebert. Faster, Pussycat. . . Kill! Kill! is usually considered to be his greatest, or at least his most idiosyncratic, picture.
Selected filmography
- 1950 - The French Peep Show
- 1959 - The Immoral Mr. Teas
- 1959 - This Is My Body
- 1960 - Eve and the Handyman
- 1960 - Naked Camera
- 1961 - Erotica
- 1962 - Wild Gals of the Naked West
- 1963 - Europe in the Raw
- 1963 - Heavenly Bodies!
- 1963 - Skyscrapers and Brassieres
- 1964 - Lorna
- 1964 - Fanny Hill
- 1965 - Mudhoney
- 1965 - Motorpsycho
- 1966 - Faster Pussycat... Kill! Kill
- 1966 - Mondo Topless
- 1967 - Common Law Cabin
- 1967 - Good Morning...and Goodbye!
- 1968 - Finders Keepers, Lovers weepers!
- 1968 - Vixen
- 1969 - Cherry, Harry and Raquel
- 1970 - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
- 1971 - The Seven Minutes
- 1972 - Blacksnake
- 1975 - SuperVixens
- 1976 - Up!
- 1978 - Who Killed Bambi? (unfinished)
- 1979 - Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens
