Herschell Gordon Lewis

Herschell Gordon Lewis was born near Pittsburgh in 1926. He earned a master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University, taught English, worked in radio and television, then in 1953 took over an advertising film company in Chicago. With the producer David F. Friedman, he made nudie films for exploitation theatres in the early sixties, then turned to gory horror. After 1972 he devoted himself to direct marketing and published more than twenty books on advertising; he returned to the cinema in 2002 and died in Florida in 2016.

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• CinemaBlood FeastHerschell Gordon Lewis · 1963Cinema