George Armitage, director of the nineties of the last century, strikes Jerusi Point Blanc and Miami Blues, in addition to Man Hitz, Blaxploitation has been redesigned in the seventies of Get Carter, at the age of 82. I mentioned a variety He died on February 15 in Playa del Rey, California.
Armitage started on TV, where she worked on the famous Opera Peyton Place, then stormed the features through the World New World from Roger Corman in the late 1960s. Later specialized in crime films: Grosse Pointe Blank, starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver, was his largest commercial success, and his final score was Elmore Leonard Adaptation The Big Bound in 2004.
He was born in the state of Contecticut in 1942, Aramitage He moved to California with his family in 1956And I got a job in the postcard at 20th Century Fox. He moved quickly to production, and became a participating producer in Peyton Place in 1967.
Kormman then gave him the nurses of perfect nurses in the movie Sexploather to direct him, and a year later he was asked to write and direct a man, who later said Armitage that he was not initially told that he was reformulated to Michael Cain Thriller. Armitage also said he was hesitant to make the film as a black director who could have done it better, but he agreed to direct it after Korman felt that the main actor, Bernie Casey, was inexperienced in assuming the job.
In 1976, ARMITAGE and directed by Action Whiller Vigilante for Corman wrote; It was a group of mercenaries who took over a small town, and they starred Chris Christopson and Jean Michael Vincent. Regardless of the 1979 Hot Rod, inspired by his teenage experiences in California, Armitage focused on writing for the next contract; His next opportunity to guide came through former Koman Korman, Jonathan Demi, which Charles Welford Miami Blues has gone through. Alec Baldwin, Farid Ward and Jennifer Jasson Lee, Miami Blues was a separate success and led to John Kusak, who chose Gross Point Blanc from the writer Tom Yancovich, Ask from armitage guidance.
Released in 1997, Grosse Pointe Blank starred as a psychological, disturbed killer dating back to his hometown and attending his high school,; Armitage later said that he insisted on cutting the text, whose book was re -written and his collaborators Steve Pink and DV Devincentis, up to 100 pages, but the high guidance method allowed actors to restore many of them. This was followed by Armitage with Big Bound, who starred Owen Wilson and Sarah Foster; He said he was disappointed by the result after the post -production cuts were made – as Leonard was, who was It was called the fantastic movie. The great bounce was the final credit of Armitage; He later worked as an non -accredited teacher and a text doctor in the projects of others.
Armitage was survived by his son Brent Armitage, who is also a film maker.