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Feb 25, 2024 · William Girdler´s career was short, lasting just six years but even by the standards of those who toil away in the exploitation arena, he was extremely prolific, making nine features between 1972 and 1978, when he was killed in a helicopter crash in the jungle outside Manila, aged only thirty.
Born in Kentucky 1947, William Girdler served a stint in the Air Force before forming the production company "Studio One" (later Mid America Pictures). At the admirably young age of twenty-five, Girdler saw his film debut with the offbeat mental shocker Asylum of Satan. The following year, Gridler finished up the gritty slasher Three on a Meathook.
William Girdler (October 22, 1947 - Januay 21,1978) is an American directed films an Abby 1974 and Grizzly 1976.
Motion Picture Director, Producer, Screenwriter. He turned out a series of independently produced, commercially successful B films in the 1970s. His best known release is Grizzly (1976), a Jaws knock-off that became a mainstream box office hit. A movie buff from childhood, Girdler served in the US Air Force after...
Jun 3, 2021 · Film director William Girdler was an ambitious young man in the 1970s. While not exactly in the Spielberg wunderkind bracket, he had directed his first feature film in 1972 at the age of 25 – which back then was very young for a film director – and had carved out a solid, if not especially remarkable career making low budget exploitation movies, each slightly bigger and more ambitious than the last.
Without a doubt, The Zebra Killer ranks as Girdler's most elusive movie project. It's also one of his most interesting efforts. Filmed sometime in 1973, its history is sketchy at best. Until recently, some of Bill's closest friends and colleagues weren't sure if Zebra Killer saw release. Pat Kelly says Zebra Killer was shot as a midnight movie ...
William Brent Girdler (October 24, 1947 - January 21, 1978) was an American filmmaker who specialized mainly in exploitation genre films. Between 1972 and 1978, he directed nine feature films in such genres as horror and action. Girdler also wrote and produced three of his features, Abby, Sheba Baby and The Manitou.
