George Armitage, who labored intently with Roger Corman earlier than breaking out within the ’90s with Miami Blues and Grosse Pointe Clean, has died.
George Armitage, the director of Grosse Pointe Clean and Miami Blues, in addition to an in depth collaborator of Roger Corman’s, has died. He was 82.
George Armitage entered the enterprise within the ‘70s but it took a while to find his footing. That came with 1990’s Miami Blues, which starred Alec Baldwin as a prison recent out of jail posing as a cop with a stolen police badge. Armitage would develop his combination of crime and comedy later that decade with 1997’s Grosse Pointe Clean with John Cusack and Minnie Driver.
Despite the fact that he was a buddy of Corman’s, it does really feel like George Armitage is simply too not often talked about within the listing of notable administrators who acquired their begin working underneath him. However we are able to’t ignore the place he acquired his begin. George Armitage met Roger Corman at simply the proper time within the Sixties. In 1971, Corman employed him to put in writing Fuel-s-s, a low-budget film a couple of gasoline leak that targets individuals over the age of 25. That Armitage was on the cusp of 30 on the time of its launch but simply getting his profession going added some enjoyable irony to it. Corman subsequent gave Armitage a shot behind the lens with The Scholar Nurses sequel Personal Obligation Nurses. (He’d be relegated again to writing duties for the third film within the collection, Night time Name Nurses.)
George Armitage would deal with the style scene fairly properly all through the ‘70s, writing and directing the Bernie Casey- and Pam Grier-starring Hit Man (1972) and 1976’s Vigilante Drive with Kris Kristofferson and Jan-Michael Vincent. Whereas he would solely write it, I’d put 1975’s Darktown Strutters on the prime. He additionally had a small position in Caged Warmth, the Roger Corman manufacturing that gave Jonathan Demme his personal breakout.
On the TV entrance George Armitage wrote and directed the gorgeous snazzy Sizzling Rod (1979) whereas taking writing duties on The Late Shift, which traced the rivalry between David Letterman and Jay Leno. For that, he earned a Primetime Emmy nomination.
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