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Gene Curtis Harrington (September 17, 1926 –May 6, 2007) was an American film and television director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor. He emerged in the experimental film scene of the 1940s and ‘50s, notably as a collaborator of Kenneth Anger, before becoming a director of mainstream horror films and television series.[1]

Curtis Harrington

Harrington, c. 1950

Born

Gene Curtis Harrington

September 17, 1926

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

DiedMay 6, 2007 (aged 80)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Resting place

Hollywood Forever CemeteryOther nameJohn SebastianAlma mater

• Occidental College

• University of Southern California

• University of California, Los Angeles

OccupationsDirector, screenwriter, producer, actor

The Harvard Film Archive referred to Harrington as “among the most wholly original directors to work in the Hollywood studio system,”[2] and Screen Slate called him "a cinematic jack of all trades."[3] He is also considered one of the forerunners to New Queer Cinema

Horror films

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During the 1950s, Harrington began working as an assistant to producer Jerry Wald.[9] He wrote the story for Wald's 1958 production Mardi Gras, a musical starring Pat Boone. He subsequently worked as an associate producer under Wald on Hound-Dog Man (1959), Return to Peyton Place(1961), and The Stripper (1963).

After leaving Wald, Harrington was employed by Roger Corman, who assigned the burgeoning director two American films which used footage from Soviet science fiction films, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) and Queen of Blood(1966). The latter film has developed a cult following, and has been cited as an influence on Alien.[10]

In 1967, Harrington wrote and directed Games for Universal Pictures, a psychological thriller starring Simone Signoret, James Caan, and Katharine Ross. The film earned Signoret a BAFTA Awardnomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

He was originally going to direct the 1970 film Wuthering Heights, but he wound up making Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? and What's the Matter with Helen? with Shelley Winters.[11]

Throughout the decade, Harrington directed a string of made-for-television horror and thriller films, including Killer Bees (1974) with Gloria Swanson in one of her later roles. Harrington he made two television movies based on screenplays by Robert Bloch: The Cat Creature (1973) and The Dead Don't Die (1975).

Later works

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Harrington had a cameo in Orson Welles's long-unfinished The Other Side of the Wind. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Harrington directed episodes of television series such as Baretta, Dynasty, Wonder Woman, The Twilight Zone and Charlie's Angels.

The Killing Kind is a 1973 American psychological horror film directed by Curtis Harrington, and starring Ann Sothern, John Savage, Ruth Roman, Luana Anders, and Cindy Williams. It follows a young man who, after being released from prison for a sexual assault he did not commit, submits to his impulsive urge to seek revenge against those who wronged him. The film is based on a screenplay by Tony Crechales, whose screenplay was revised by producer George Edwards, an associate producer on Harrington's previous film, What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)