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Al Adamson

American filmmaker and actor (1929–1995)

Albert Victor Adamson Jr. (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was an American filmmaker and actor known as a prolific director of B movie horror and exploitation films throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The son of silent film veterans Victor Adamson and Dolores Booth, Adamson began his career in the film industry at a young age and began directing in the early 1960s, helming a total of 33 feature films.

Many of his films, such as Psycho A-Go-Go, Blood of Ghastly Horror, and Dracula vs. Frankenstein, went on to gain cult status. He cast his wife, actress and singer Regina Carrol, in many of his films. Adamson retired from filmmaking in the early 1980s to pursue a career in real estate. In 1995, he was murdered by a live-in contractor whom he had hired to work on his house, and he was subsequently buried beneath the floor in his bathroom. Adamson's death and the subsequent trial led to renewed publicity, and was the subject of several documentaries. Albert Victor Adamson Jr. was born in Hollywood, California. His father was silent film star and producer Victor Adamson, also known as Art Mix and Denver Dixon, and his mother was actress Dolores Booth. Adamson was involved in the film industry from an early age, appearing in the low budget 1935 film Desert Mesa, directed by his father.

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