George Armitage, the director known as Beats the man (1972), Miami Blues (1990) and Grosse Pointe is empty (1997), Matt. It was 82.
The writer, director and producer died last Saturday. The cause of death was not immediately revealed.
Born in December 13, 1942 in Hartford, Connecticut, Armitage moved to Beverly Hills with his family as a child. After specializing in political science and economics at the University of California in Los Angeles, he found himself storming the film industry, as he worked in the postal room in 20th Center Fox while waiting for his real estate license.
Within a year, ARMITAGE was a participating product in ABC soap Biton place. “It was an incredible experience,” it is Remember In 2015.
“There was a product called Evertt Chambers who would work on a number of films with John Cassavetes, and it was usually useful,” said Armitage. “This was at a time when the forty producers who were a kind of hip and directed towards jazz were coming … I was 21 and 22, something like that, and if you were young, if you had an opinion, it was a kind of thigh, I knew what It was running with your generation, I was very valuable. So I moved from the product to the product throughout Scenario.
In 1971, he wrote and directed his first appearance Nurses private dutyFollowed by the movie Blackloz in 1972 Beats the manStarring Bam Jarir and Bernie Casey.
Armitage also directed films Vigilance (1976), Hot cock (1979) and Great apostasy (2004). After meeting him during his early days in Fox, Armitage worked repeatedly with Roger Korman.
