Russ Meyer

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

External link

• Russ Meyer Films' official site (http://www.rmfilms.com/)