Robert Aldrich

'Robert Aldrich' (qv) entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an associate producer. He began writing and directing for TV series in the early 1950s, and directed his first feature in 1953 (_Big Leaguer (1953)_ (qv)). Soon thereafter he established his own production company and produced most of his own films, collaborating in the writing of many of them. Among his best-known pictures are _Kiss Me Deadly (1955)_ (qv), _What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)_ (qv) and the muscular WW II mega-hit _The Dirty Dozen (1967)_ (qv).::[email protected]