George Armitage, the director identified for Hit Man (1972), Miami Blues (1990) and Grosse Pointe Clean (1997), has died. He was 82.
The author, director and producer died final Saturday, Deadline has confirmed together with his former company Gersh. A explanation for dying was not instantly disclosed.
Born Dec. 13, 1942 in Hartford, Connecticut, Armitage moved to Beverly Hills together with his household as a toddler. After majoring in political science and economics at UCLA, he discovered himself breaking into the movie trade, working within the mail room at twentieth Century Fox whereas ready for his actual property license to return by means of.
Inside a yr, Armitage was an affiliate producer on the ABC cleaning soap Peyton Place. “It was an unbelievable expertise,” he recalled in 2015.
“There was a producer there named Everett Chambers who would work on quite a lot of movies with John Cassavetes, he was normally useful,” stated Armitage. “This was simply on the time when the fortysomething producers who had been sort of hip and jazz-oriented had been coming in… I used to be 21, 22, one thing like that, and in case you had been younger, in case you had an opinion, had been sort of hip, knew what was happening with your individual era, you had been very precious. So I went from producer to producer everywhere in the lot pitching concepts, I created sequence, I wrote a few issues for tv and, about that point, began writing screenplays.”
In 1971, he wrote and directed his function debut Personal Obligation Nurses, adopted by the 1972 blaxploitation-themed movie Hit Man, starring Pam Grier and Bernie Casey.
Armitage additionally directed the movies Vigilante Pressure (1976), Sizzling Rod (1979) and The Large Bounce (2004). After assembly him throughout his early days at Fox, Armitage regularly labored with Roger Corman.
