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Gene Curtis Harrington (September 17, 1926 – May 6, 2007) was an American film and television director whose work included experimental films and horror films. He is considered one of the forerunners of New Queer Cinema.
- May 6, 2007 (aged 80), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Gene Curtis Harrington, September 17, 1926, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Man of the Crowd (2008) 1 Video. 9 Photos. Curtis Harrington was an excellent and shamefully underrated writer and director who specialized in marvelously offbeat and atmospheric low-budget independent horror pictures. Harrington was born on September 17, 1926, in Los Angeles and grew up in Beaumont, California.
- Director, Writer, Actor
- September 17, 1926
- 44 sec
- May 6, 2007
Oct 11, 2013 · Curtis Harrington began making movies as a teenager in Los Angeles during World War II. His debut was a poignant rendition of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher.
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Apr 9, 2020 · Known today as a pioneer of New Queer Cinema, Harrington first gained recognition for his student films in the immediate post-WWII cultural shifts. He quickly became known for his gothic and surreal aesthetic, one that poetically balanced illusion and atmosphere.
May 10, 2007 · By Douglas Martin. May 10, 2007. Curtis Harrington, who dived under his seat while watching his first horror film as a child, then went on to be a filmmaker known for his elegant, edgy...
The Curtis Harrington collection holds about 40 items, including original 8mm, 16mm and 35mm prints and negatives. The collection includes an oral history conducted with Harrington by the Academy in 2003, as well his first experimental film "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1942).
Jul 9, 2013 · by Budd Wilkins. July 9, 2013. Desire and death dwell at the dark heart of Curtis Harrington’s short films in much the same way that implicitly incestuous twins predominate in the first and last of them, both variations on a theme set by Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Fall of the House of Usher.
