Russ Meyer, (born March 21, 1922), is a American motion picture director.

He made a number of amateur films at the age of 15, and worked during World War II as a newsreel cameraman. Upon returning to civilian life, he became a glamor photographer, and found himself working for Hugh Hefner's newly launched Playboy magazine.

From here, he became a director of nudie films. His films are more ribaldry than pornography, and seem unusually focused on women with large breasts. His later films are almost entirely devoted to this vision; his discoveries include Kitten Natividad and Uschi Digard. He co-wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with Roger Ebert. Faster, Pussycat. . . Kill! Kill! is usually considered to be his greatest, or at least his most idiosyncratic, picture.

Selected filmography

  • 1950 - The French Peep Show
  • 1959 - The Immoral Mr. Teas
  • 1959 - This Is My Body
  • 1960 - Eve and the Handyman
  • 1960 - Naked Camera
  • 1961 - Erotica
  • 1962 - Wild Gals of the Naked West
  • 1963 - Europe in the Raw
  • 1963 - Heavenly Bodies!
  • 1963 - Skyscrapers and Brassieres
  • 1964 - Lorna
  • 1964 - Fanny Hill
  • 1965 - Mudhoney
  • 1965 - Motorpsycho
  • 1966 - Faster Pussycat... Kill! Kill
  • 1966 - Mondo Topless
  • 1967 - Common Law Cabin
  • 1967 - Good Morning...and Goodbye!
  • 1968 - Finders Keepers, Lovers weepers!
  • 1968 - Vixen
  • 1969 - Cherry, Harry and Raquel
  • 1970 - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  • 1971 - The Seven Minutes
  • 1972 - Blacksnake
  • 1975 - SuperVixens
  • 1976 - Up!
  • 1978 - Who Killed Bambi? (unfinished)
  • 1979 - Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens

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