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 along with his former company Gersh. A reason behind dying was not instantly disclosed.
Born Dec. 13, 1942 in Hartford, Connecticut, Armitage moved to Beverly Hills along with his household as a toddler. After majoring in political science and economics at UCLA, he discovered himself breaking into the movie business, working within the mail room at twentieth Century Fox whereas ready for his actual property license to come back by means of.
Inside a 12 months, 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 plenty of movies with John Cassavetes, he was often useful,” stated Armitage. “This was simply on the time when the fortysomething producers who have been form of hip and jazz-oriented have been coming in… I used to be 21, 22, one thing like that, and in the event you have been younger, in the event you had an opinion, have been form of hip, knew what was occurring with your personal technology, you have been very beneficial. So I went from producer to producer all around 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 characteristic 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 Drive (1976), Scorching Rod (1979) and The Large Bounce (2004). After assembly him throughout his early days at Fox, Armitage steadily labored with Roger Corman.
