William Castle

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    Name William Castle
    Date of Birth April 241914
    Star Sign Taurus
    Died May 311977 (Aged 63)
    Occupation Director
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  • Worked in radio with Orson Welles.
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  • He derived his professional name by simply translating his real family name Schloss to Castle.
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  • He emulated Alfred Hitchcock. This included the practice of appearing in the trailers, and even making cameo appearances in his films. He went so far as to create a trademark silhouette that showed him in a director's chair and in profile with a cigar. Hitchcock noticed the big grosses for Castle's low-budget House on Haunted Hill (1959), which led him to return the "favor" by taking a page from Castle and creating his own low-budget thriller--Psycho (1960).
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  • He purchased the film rights to Ira Levin's novel "Rosemary's Baby", but Paramount Pictures would give him the green light for the project only if he didn't direct--the studio feared that his reputation as a director of low-budget gimmick horror films would harm the project. Roman Polanski was finally selected to direct while Castle, as producer, was allowed to make a significant cameo appearance.
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  • Worked as a dialogue director for Columbia in the 40s.
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  • John Goodman's character in Matinee (1993) was based on Castle.
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  • He began his directing career at the age of 18 with a stage production of "Dracula."
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  • His daughter Terry Castle co-produced and consulted on the remakes of two of his films to make the plot even more frightening: House on Haunted Hill (1999) and Thir13en Ghosts (2001).
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  • He began his career as an actor on Broadway at the age of 15. He reportedly got his first role by passing himself off as the nephew of Samuel Goldwyn.
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