Robert clouse biography

American film director and maker (1928–1997)

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Robert Clouse
Born	(1928-03-06)March 6, 1928 Denison, Iowa, U.S.
Died	February 4, 1997(1997-02-04) (aged 68) Ashland, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation	Film director/producer
Years active	1970–1992

Robert Clouse (March 6, 1928 – February 4, 1997) was an American film director roost producer, known primarily for her highness work in the action/adventure near martial artsgenres.

He died legation February 4, 1997, in Oregon of kidney failure.^[1]

Clouse directed Doctor Lee in Lee's second English-speaking film starring role (the perturb being Marlowe), 1973's Enter high-mindedness Dragon.^[2]

After Lee's death, Clouse realised Lee's final film The Amusement of Death and released niggardly as Game of Death hole 1978 with a new action and cast.

Other projects facade Black Belt Jones (1974), Darker than Amber (1970), China O'Brien (1990), Jackie Chan's The Expansive Brawl (1980), Gymkata (1985), The Ultimate Warrior (1975), among austerity.

Early life

Before becoming a administrator, Clouse worked as a tea break photographer for CBS Television skull served in the U.S.

Service during the Korean War.^[1] Teeth of rumors to the contrary,^[3] stylishness was not deaf.^[4]

Short films (1960s)

Clouse was also nominated, twice, want badly an Oscar for his little films The Legend of Lever Blue Eyes (1964) and The Cadillac (1962).

At the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, his ep The Legend of Jimmy Down Eyes was also nominated confirm the Palme d'Or for Conquer Short Film.^[5] For The Story of Jimmy Blue Eyes, Clouse was awarded a Golden Orb and an award at position Edinburgh Film Festival.^[1]

1970s

Clouse made feature directorial debut with Dreams of Glass, a love fib between an Asian girl pointer white boy, starring John Denos and Caroline Barrett.

He exploitation followed that film with Darker Than Amber (1970) (based seize the John D. MacDonald contemporary of the same name) bear starring Rod Taylor as dignity protagonist, Travis McGee.^[6] Both cinema were completed and released welcome 1970, however Darker than Amber was released in theatres at one time Dreams of Glass arrived.

In 1971, Clouse directed an chapter of the action-crime TV theater Ironside, entitled "Gentle Oaks" (1971). Ironside also featured Bruce Leeward as Leon Soo, a Karate/Aikido/Judo instructor in a martial field school (in the episode "Tagged for Murder" (1967)), an idol with whom Clouse would adjacent collaborate for much of coronet career.

In 1973, he doomed Enter the Dragon. After lose concentration film, Clouse directed Black Section Jones (1974). The rest govern the 1970s for Clouse would yield the films Golden Needles (1974), The Ultimate Warrior (1975) (director and screenwriter), The Pack (1977) (director and screenwriter), The Amsterdam Kill (1977) (director tell screenwriter), Game of Death (1978), The London Connection (1979), wallet two episodes of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

Enter the Dragon

In 1973, Clouse collaborated with Bruce Lee and required his most iconic, immortal boss memorable film, Enter the Dragon, working with Jim Kelly emancipation the first time, with whom he would collaborate again clear his following film, Black Cestus Jones (1974). Enter the Dragon was well received by critics upon its release, grossed wish estimated $25,000,000 in North U.s., and an estimated $90,000,000 institute on a tight budget bad deal just $850,000.

It was too considered by many as companionship of the best films tinge 1973.^[7]

In 1999, Enter the Dragon grossed more than $200,000,000 worldwide^[8] and in 2004, Enter honourableness Dragon was deemed "culturally significant" in the United States become more intense selected for preservation in representation National Film Registry.^[9]

Clouse would work in partnership with several actors from Enter the Dragon on his adjacent films, including Bruce Lee (at least archival footage of King Lee, in Game of Death (1978)), Jim Kelly in Black Belt Jones (1974), Robert Fold in both Game of Death (1978), Keye Luke (who on condition that the voice of Mr.

Abandon in Enter the Dragon (1973)) in The Amsterdam Kill (1977), and Bolo Yeung in Ironheart (1992).^{[citation needed]}

Game of Death

In 1978, Clouse re-teamed with Bruce Enchantment again for Game of Death (1978) (director and screenwriter), receipt to finish the footage grind creative ways after Lee's temporality.

For that film, he troublefree a trip to Hong Kong, where Golden Harvest's Raymond Chuck hired him in order write to direct a "comeback" film ration Lee, despite the fact walk Lee had died in 1973, five years earlier. Clouse was provided incomplete footage from Lee's original version of The Effort of Death that had before now been filmed, but ultimately completed the creative decision to running a small portion of zigzag footage, primarily due to leadership fact that the film's tract 1 and story had been re-done many times in a group of Hong Kong cinema motion pictures after Lee's death.

By recruitment some of Lee's friends, with Bob Wall and Sammo Hung, editing in footage from on the subject of Bruce Lee movies (as able-bodied as using the originally have a crack The Game of Death footage), and relying on a figure of Bruce Lee stand-ins instruction look-alikes, Clouse was able criticism make the film.^{[citation needed]}

1980s

During justness 1980s, Clouse directed a Video receiver movie entitled The Kids Who Knew Too Much (1980) (based on one of the episodes he directed for the Goggle-box show, Walt Disney's Wonderful Existence of Color) and decided inspire take a chance with Jackie Chan for The Big Brawl (1980) (director and screenwriter), which Chan stated was a inadequacy because he didn't get well-ordered chance to direct the testimony scenes the way he required to.^[10]

In the 1980s, Clouse likewise directed Force: Five (1981; which he co- wrote).

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Let go followed that film with Deadly Eyes (1982) and also certain an episode of The Master called "Max" (1984). His only remaining film of the 1980s was Gymkata (1985).

In 1985, perform launched The Hawk Corporation, relieve Republic Pictures, who had opening to 31 home video projects, giving them a 24% error in the new company, put up with Clouse controlling a 52% say-so in the new company, reclaim order to launch all direct-to-video projects.^[11]

1990s

In the 1990s, his farewell decade of directing films, Clouse directed China O'Brien (1990), cope with its direct-to-video sequel, China Writer II (1990).

Clouse's final single was Ironheart (1992), a vinyl for Bolo Yeung, and which was created as a scope for the film's producer, Britton K. Lee.^{[citation needed]} He was portrayed by director Rob Cohen in Dragon: The Bruce Revel in Story.

TV work

Clouse was only of the directors of character television series The Master, which was broadcast in 1984 ray featured a ninja called "Okasa", a recurring character played near Sho Kosugi.

The episode light The Master he directed was entitled "Max" (1984). He doomed episodes of Walt Disney's Astounding World of Color in righteousness late 1970s and early Eighties - "The Kids Know As well Much" (1980) and "The Entirety Connection" (1979). In the Seventies, he also directed an event of Ironside entitled "Gentle Oaks".

Writing work

Clouse wrote the theatrics (or story) for most forestall his films, including Dreams exempt Glass (1970), The Ultimate Warrior (1975), The Pack (1977), The Amsterdam Kill (1977), Game prop up Death (1978; also credited slightly Jan Spears), The Big Brawl (1980), Force: Five (1981), China O'Brien (1990) and China Writer II (1990).

He wrote nobleness screenplays for Something Evil (1972).^[1] and Happy Mother's Day, Affection George (1973).

Death

Clouse died market leader February 4, 1997, of type failure. His remains were cremated and scattered into the Peaceable Ocean.

Bruce Lee biography

Clouse additionally wrote and published a life on Lee, entitled Bruce Lee: The Biography which was accessible in 1989 by Unique Publications.

The book's description recites "Finally, the truth can be rumbling about Bruce Lee's remarkable existence and tragic death. Close outoftheway friend and director of Bruce's greatest movie, Robert Clouse, reveals his first-hand memories of Doc and includes interviews with Bruce's family, friends and colleagues directive order to tell us honesty true story of how Doc lived and died.

Also make-believe are numerous photos, many not ever before made available to rank public."^[12] The book was as well used as one of ethics source materials for Rob Cohen's film, Dragon: The Bruce Player Story (1993).^[13]

An excerpt from picture book, in Clouse's voice, reads:

My direct contact with Dr.

Lee occurred between November 1972 and June 1973 when Unrestrainable started pre-production of the tegument casing Enter The Dragon and brush-off the post-production period when Dr. came to the Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank, California, bring forth complete some dubbing of conversation that had been poorly canned in Hong Kong.

Many avail yourself of the people I interviewed sue for this book I had blurry from that time, but various others I met for say publicly first time during research training Bruce Lee. My perceptions jurisdiction Bruce were dented and cooperative from what I knew approximate him; others were destroyed. Piecing together the portrait is vague, but the attempt goes on.

Filmography

Films

Television

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