Robert Clouse
Robert Clouse ( March 6, 1928 in Wisconsin; † February 4, 1997 in Ashland, Oregon) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Life
Robert Clouse 1973 was director of the film "The Man with the Dragon ". Here Bruce Lee acted for the first time in a full-length film, which was filmed for a Western audience in English.
Because of the large and sustained effect of this strip he got as a result many similar contracts, although there was doubt that Robert Clouse really like turned with martial artists. He looked the same in the following year as director of a film called " Black Belt Jones ", who presented the from "The Man with the Dragon " known karateka Jim Kelly in the lead role.
For the producer Raymond Chow he also took care of the present material for Bruce Lee's unfinished posthumous film " Bruce Lee - My last fight " to. The result was the 1978 way into theaters after Robert Clouse had reshot with various Lee - Doubles complement scenes. The film was shot ambivalent, however, makes it possible for fans to see many authentic recordings of the late Bruce Lee for the first time on the screen.
For Jackie Chan Robert Clouse was the first director with whom he made a western film. The screenplay for The Great Brawl (1980 ) also came from Robert Clouse. It already had the typical Jackie Chan mixture of acrobatics and humor, then finally in 1994 (according to the proportionate humorless " The Protector " in 1985 ) is actually a breakthrough brought him with Rumble in the Bronx in the West.
In 1984 he was one of the directors of the television series " The Master Ninja " with Lee Van Cleef. The title character was on the run from a ninja named " Okasa " which was played by Sho Kosugi. Sho Kosugi became famous in the West as Ninja performer and had then also here with his ninja movies great success.
After this excursion to television Robert Clouse returned to the cinema. Twice he let Cynthia Rothrock "China O'Brien " play, where he was instrumental in these scenarios.
In the year of his death, he first has directed a movie called "Iron Heart" ( with Bolo Yeung and Richard Norton ). He no longer carried out this work but at the end.
Filmography (selection)
Awards
The Short Films The Cadillac and The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes in 1963 and 1965, nominated for Best Short Film Oscar. The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes was also nominated in 1965 for Best Short Film at the International Film Festival of Cannes.