Known for Directing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rodney "Rod" Amateau (December 20, 1923 – June 29, 2003) was an American screenwriter, film and television director. Among programs that he directed were NBC's The Dennis Day Show, CBS's sitcoms The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, starring Dwayne Hickman, and The New Phil Silvers Show, an unsuccessful attempt by comedian Phil Silvers to return to a regular series. Rod also directed a few episodes of the Dukes of Hazzards. He even appeared in a few of them. He is perhaps most infamous for directing 1987's critically panned The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rod Amateau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
December 20, 1923
Died
June 29, 2003 (age 79)
Birthplace
New York, New York, United States
Filmography
32 films, 25 shows


The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
1987 · 1h 36m · US
Crude, grotesque, pint-sized aliens known as the Garbage Pail Kids® help a young boy exact revenge on his bullies and win the girl of his dreams.


Lovelines
1984 · 1h 33m · US
Greed, lust, dirty tricks and bloody fist fights... All those things that make life worth living. When Piper and Rick, the two hottest properties in the Battle of the Bands want to make it, only one thing stands in their way. They're from opposing High Schools. And Malibu High's 6'6" muscle-bound monster Godzilla is going to do everything and anything stop his sweet little sister getting it on with some jerk from the Coldwater Canyon High. When all else fails, only Lovelines answering service can keep them together.


High School U.S.A.
1983 · 1h 40m · US
Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie between the two rivals in this light comedy.


Uncommon Valor
1983 · 1h 40m
The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging conflagration at County General Hospital (a disaster enhanced by some pretty good special effects). They also have to battle the villain of the piece, discreetly described in the original network press release as a "deranged arsonist."
Highway Honeys
Highway Honeys
1982 · 1h · US
Daytona Shepherd (Will Bledsoe) and his sister, Carole Lee (Mary Davis), operators of Good Shepherd Tow Service, are pitted against a band of dishonest tow truck operators.


Son of Hitler
1979 · 1h 36m · UK
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.


The Seniors
1978 · 1h 27m · US
Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business.


Drive-In
1976 · 1h 36m · US
The adventures of a group of teenagers at a drive-in theatre in Texas one weekend night.


Where Does It Hurt?
1972 · 1h 25m · US
In this classic hospital farce, Peter Sellers plays Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel, a greedy, crooked hospital administrator who has perfected the art of bill padding, unnecessary surgery and kickbacks. Mistrusted by patients, and resented by other staffers, his assistant Alice can no longer endure his scams and plots to have him sent to prison - but not for long enough. Sellers again steals the show with an absurd and hilarious character study.


The Statue
1971 · 1h 24m · UK
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue. The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative image. Can art and love reconcile?


Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
1970 · 1h 40m · US
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.


The Road to Edinburgh
1954 · 30m · US
Feisty reporter Joan insists on driving to her next assignment in Edinburgh solo. Along the way she has a flat tire and a passerby lends a hand, she in kind offers him a lift. As she finds out more information about him she starts making assumptions and her fears rise.


Monsoon
1952 · 1h 19m · UK
A young woman named Julia brings her fiance and his mother to a village in India to meet her father and brother. Hospitality proves in short supply and things take a turn for the worse when Julia's seductive younger sister arrives.


The Bushwhackers
1951 · 1h 7m · US
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his henchmen are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.