William Castle: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	William Schloss
Born	April 24, 1914 • New York City • New York
Died	May 31, 1977 (aged 63) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works	“13 Ghosts” • “Homicidal” • “House on Haunted Hill” • “I Saw What You Did” • “Macabre” • “Mr. Sardonicus” • “Shanks” • “Strait-Jacket” • “The Night Walker” • “The Tingler” • “Zotz!”

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Lobby card for House on Haunted Hill (1958) featuring Vincent Price seated in a suit, with eerie green illustrations of a skeleton, haunted house, and a man holding a candle.

lobby card for The Tingler

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Tod Browning

American director

Roger Corman smiling and wearing glasses, a blue shirt, and a dark jacket at the Los Angeles premiere of Flags of Our Fathers.

Roger Corman

American writer and director

Sam Raimi wearing a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, smiling at the Los Angeles premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Sam Raimi

American director, producer, and screenwriter

Portrait of film director George A. Romero smiling outdoors at the 66th Venice Film Festival, with greenery blurred in the background.

George A. Romero

American director, writer, and producer

Guillermo del Toro smiles on the red carpet in a black suit, black shirt, and black tie at the Venice International Film Festival.

Guillermo del Toro

Mexican director

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Jesse Lasky

American producer

Master of suspense

Alfred Hitchcock

English-born American director

Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Steven Spielberg

American film director and producer

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

American actor, director, and writer

Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.

Martin Scorsese

American filmmaker

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Huston

American director, writer, and actor

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Frank Capra

American film director

William Wyler

William Wyler

German-born American director

Howard Hawks stands at right, speaking with actors John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in cowboy costumes on the set of the western film Rio Bravo.

Howard Hawks

American director

Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.

Billy Wilder

Austrian-born American director and producer

Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background.

Francis Ford Coppola

American director and screenwriter

American director Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

American director

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Mervyn LeRoy

American director and producer

George Stevens

George Stevens

American director

Otto Preminger

Otto Preminger

American filmmaker