Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1929-07-12
Place of Birth
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Monte Hellman
Biography
Monte Hellman (born Monte Jay Himmelbaum; July 12, 1929 — April 20, 2021) was an American film director, producer, writer, and editor. He was born in New York City, where his parents were visiting, but he grew up in Los Angeles.Hellman began his career as an editor's apprentice at ABC TV, and made his directorial debut with the horror film "Beast from Haunted Cave" (1959), produced by Roger Corman. He would later gain critical recognition for the Westerns "The Shooting" and "Ride in the Whirlwind" (both 1966) starring Jack Nicholson, and the independent road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop" (1971) starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. His later directorial work included the slasher film "Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!" (1989) and the independent thriller "Road to Nowhere" (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Monte Hellman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
as Executive Producer
as Co-Director
as Second Unit Director
as Director
Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Self
as Director
as Director
as Editor
as Director
as Co-Director
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