Albert Band
Biography
Albert Band was an American filmmaker who worked as both a director and a producer. Born in Paris in 1924, he came to the United States from France before the wartime occupation and finished school in Hollywood. He took an apprenticeship at Warner Bros., where he built contacts and later worked as John Huston's assistant director for The Asphalt Jungle. He also adapted Stephen Crane's story for Huston's The Red Badge of Courage (1951). His debut as both producer and director came with The Young Guns (1956), a Western blended with a juvenile delinquent picture. Near the end of the 1950s, he relocated to Europe, making a series of films that began in Sweden with Face of Fire (1959), drawn from another Crane story, The Monster. He died in 2002.
78years old at death
- Born Paris
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
- Alfredo Antonini (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 42 years1951 to 1993
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First role
Albert Band got his start in film as an apprentice at Warner Bros., where he built the contacts that led to work as an assistant director on John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle.
First role
Band made his debut as both producer and director with The Young Guns in 1956, a film that mixed the Western and juvenile delinquent genres then in fashion.
A change of course
In the late 1950s Band moved to Europe and produced a run of films there, starting in Sweden with Face of Fire, drawn from Stephen Crane's story The Monster.
Albert Band movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Albert Band shares two films with Jon Van Ness, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Online
Official profiles and reference pages.