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. A hardcore film buff from a very young age, Harrington worked as a movie theater usher, a messenger at Paramount and a stagehand during his younger days. He made his first 8mm effort at age 14 and attended UCLA. In the 1940s and 1950s Harrington made a string of experimental avant-garde underground shorts, such as _Picnic . Curtis Harrington died at age 80 from complications following a stroke on May 6th, 2007.
Made his first 8mm short movie at age fourteen.
Attended UCLA.
Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Directors Branch).
Responsible for getting Universal to find a print of their 1932 film "The Old Dark House", directed by James Whale and thought to have been a lost film.
