Rupert Hitzig

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Rupert Hitzig
Born (1938-08-15) August 15, 1938 (age 84)
Occupation(s) Director, producer, actor and screenwriter

Rupert Hitzig (born August 15, 1938) is an American director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He graduated from Harvard University. [1]

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Career

With executive producer Berry Gordy he produced The Last Dragon (1985), directed by Michael Schultz and written by Louis Venosta. [2] With Robert Boris he wrote the screenplay for Electra Glide in Blue (1973), directed by James William Guercio and starring Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush and Mitchell Ryan. [3] With Alan Landsburg he produced Jaws 3-D (1983), directed by Joe Alves and James Contner as director of photography. [4]

He was looking to direct his first film for under a million of dollars. Chris Black grabbed a copy of The Boy Who Cried Devil and passed it along. Thanks to Black, Richard Corey, Scott Hill and Hitzig, started Night Visitor (1989). [5]

Filmography

YearTitleDirectorAssistant directorProducerWriterActor
TBAThe Curse of Hezekiah
TBAStuff It
2009Dialogues
2006Four Weeks in May
T.E.A.M.W.O.R.K.
2003Static
Box Time: Playhouse
2002NASCAR Victory Lane: All Access
1998Nowhere Land
1994 Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1993 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
1990 Backstreet Dreams
1989 Night Visitor
1987 The Squeeze
1985 The Last Dragon
1983 Jaws 3-D
1981 Wolfen
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1980Thanksgiving Special
Happy Birthday, Gemini
1979Third Annual Final Warning!!
1978 How to Pick Up Girls!
Second Final Warning
1977Final Warning
1976 Ivan the Terrible
Return to Earth
The Second Annual Comedy Awards
1975 Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell
1974Energy Crisis
1973 Electra Glide in Blue
Much Ado About Nothing
Birds of Prey
1970 NBC Children's Theatre

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