Robert Aldrich - biography

“I don’t think violence on film breeds violence in life.  Violence in life breeds violence in films.”

“The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.”

Robert Aldrich directed the following films:
Big Leaguer (1953)
World for Ransom (1954)
Apache (1954)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Big Knife (1955)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
Attack (1956)
The Garment Jungle (1957)
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
The Angry Hills (1959)
The Last Sunset (1961)
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
4 for Texas (1963)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
The Killing of Sister George (1968)
The Greatest Mother of Them All (1969)
Too Late the Hero (1970)
The Grissom Gang (1971)
Ulzana’s Raid (1972)
Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Hustle (1975)
Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)
The Choirboys (1977)
The Frisco Kid (1979)
All the Marbles (1981)


Robert Aldrich contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Autumn Leaves (1956)
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
4 for Texas (1963)
Too Late the Hero (1970)
The Frisco Kid (1979)