Directing
Russ Meyer
Born 1922-03-21
Oakland, California, USA
Department: Directing
Biography
Russell Albion 'Russ' Meyer was an American director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer, known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured campy humor, sly satire and large breasted women.
Known For
Prominent works featuring Russ Meyer
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Patton
1970
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
1965
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970
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Amazon Women on the Moon
1987
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Eurotrash
1993
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Supervixens
1975
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Vixen!
1968
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Up!
1976
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Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
1979
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Motorpsycho!
1965
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (156 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | TURA! | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2025 |
 | Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness | Self | Movie | 2020 |
| Bra Wars – Hollywood’s Affair With The Bra | Self | Movie | 2014 | |
 | That's Sexploitation! | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2013 |
 | Midnight Blue, Vol. 3: Celebrities Edition | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2006 |
 | Faster Pussycat Fuck! Fuck! | Idea | Movie | 2005 |
 | Pandora Peaks | Himself / Narrator | Movie | 2004 |
| Pandora Peaks | Editor | Movie | 2004 |
| Pandora Peaks | Producer | Movie | 2004 |
| Pandora Peaks | Screenplay | Movie | 2004 |
| Pandora Peaks | Director | Movie | 2004 |
| Pandora Peaks | Director of Photography | Movie | 2004 |
 | Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation | Self | Movie | 2004 |
 | Shooting War | himself | Movie | 2000 |
 | Playboy's Voluptuous Vixens II | Himself | Movie | 1998 |
 | Playboy: The Story of X | Self - Producer and Director | Movie | 1998 |
 | Hollywood Rated 'R' | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 1997 |
 | Playboy's Voluptuous Vixens | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1997 |
 | Liebe ist Geschmackssache | Thanks | Movie | 1997 |
 | Eurotrash | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1993 |
 | The Tip of the Iceberg | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1989 |
 | Cult People | Himself | Movie | 1989 |
 | The Incredibly Strange Film Show | Self | TV Series | 1988 |
 | Amazon Women on the Moon | Video Salesman (segment "Video Date") | Movie | 1987 |
 | All the Way In! | Wondering flyer | Movie | 1984 |
 | Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens | The Director (uncredited) | Movie | 1979 |
| Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens | Editor | Movie | 1979 |
| Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens | Director of Photography | Movie | 1979 |
| Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens | Producer | Movie | 1979 |
| Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens | Director | Movie | 1979 |
| Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens | Original Story | Movie | 1979 |
 | Up! | Hitchcock (uncredited) | Movie | 1976 |
| Up! | Editor | Movie | 1976 |
| Up! | Producer | Movie | 1976 |
| Up! | Director | Movie | 1976 |
| Up! | Director of Photography | Movie | 1976 |
| Up! | Screenplay | Movie | 1976 |
| Up! | Original Story | Movie | 1976 |
| Up! | Camera Operator | Movie | 1976 |
 | Supervixens | Motel Manager #2 (uncredited) | Movie | 1975 |
| Supervixens | Editor | Movie | 1975 |
| Supervixens | Director | Movie | 1975 |
| Supervixens | Screenplay | Movie | 1975 |
| Supervixens | Producer | Movie | 1975 |
| Supervixens | Director of Photography | Movie | 1975 |
 | Black Snake | Director | Movie | 1973 |
| Black Snake | Producer | Movie | 1973 |
| Black Snake | Screenplay | Movie | 1973 |
 | The Seven Minutes | Director | Movie | 1971 |
| The Seven Minutes | Producer | Movie | 1971 |
 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | TV Cameraman (uncredited) | Movie | 1970 |
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Producer | Movie | 1970 |
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Director | Movie | 1970 |
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Story | Movie | 1970 |
 | Patton | Additional Photography | Movie | 1970 |
 | Cherry, Harry & Raquel! | Producer | Movie | 1969 |
| Cherry, Harry & Raquel! | Director | Movie | 1969 |
| Cherry, Harry & Raquel! | Editor | Movie | 1969 |
| Cherry, Harry & Raquel! | Director of Photography | Movie | 1969 |
 | Vixen! | Tourist (uncredited) | Movie | 1968 |
| Vixen! | Director of Photography | Movie | 1968 |
| Vixen! | Director | Movie | 1968 |
| Vixen! | Editor | Movie | 1968 |
| Vixen! | Producer | Movie | 1968 |
| Vixen! | Original Story | Movie | 1968 |
 | Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! | o.A. | Movie | 1968 |
| Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! | Director of Photography | Movie | 1968 |
| Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! | Director | Movie | 1968 |
| Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! | Producer | Movie | 1968 |
| Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! | Editor | Movie | 1968 |
 | Good Morning... and Goodbye! | Producer | Movie | 1967 |
| Good Morning... and Goodbye! | Director | Movie | 1967 |
| Good Morning... and Goodbye! | Editor | Movie | 1967 |
| Good Morning... and Goodbye! | Director of Photography | Movie | 1967 |
 | Common Law Cabin | Director | Movie | 1967 |
| Common Law Cabin | Producer | Movie | 1967 |
| Common Law Cabin | Editor | Movie | 1967 |
 | Mondo Topless | Director | Movie | 1966 |
| Mondo Topless | Screenplay | Movie | 1966 |
| Mondo Topless | Director of Photography | Movie | 1966 |
| Mondo Topless | Producer | Movie | 1966 |
| Mondo Topless | Editor | Movie | 1966 |
 | Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | Director | Movie | 1965 |
| Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | Producer | Movie | 1965 |
| Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | Editor | Movie | 1965 |
| Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | Original Story | Movie | 1965 |
 | Motorpsycho! | Sheriff | Movie | 1965 |
| Motorpsycho! | Director | Movie | 1965 |
| Motorpsycho! | Editor | Movie | 1965 |
| Motorpsycho! | Producer | Movie | 1965 |
| Motorpsycho! | Director of Photography | Movie | 1965 |
| Motorpsycho! | Original Story | Movie | 1965 |
| Motorpsycho! | Screenplay | Movie | 1965 |
 | Mudhoney! | Townsperson (uncredited) | Movie | 1965 |
| Mudhoney! | Director | Movie | 1965 |
| Mudhoney! | Editor | Movie | 1965 |
| Mudhoney! | Producer | Movie | 1965 |
 | Fanny Hill | Director | Movie | 1964 |
 | Lorna | Director | Movie | 1964 |
| Lorna | Producer | Movie | 1964 |
| Lorna | Director of Photography | Movie | 1964 |
| Lorna | Editor | Movie | 1964 |
| Lorna | Story | Movie | 1964 |
 | Skyscrapers and Brassieres | Himself | Movie | 1963 |
| Skyscrapers and Brassieres | Screenplay | Movie | 1963 |
| Skyscrapers and Brassieres | Editor | Movie | 1963 |
| Skyscrapers and Brassieres | Producer | Movie | 1963 |
| Skyscrapers and Brassieres | Director of Photography | Movie | 1963 |
| Skyscrapers and Brassieres | Director | Movie | 1963 |
 | Heavenly Bodies | Fetischist | Movie | 1963 |
| Heavenly Bodies | Director | Movie | 1963 |
| Heavenly Bodies | Producer | Movie | 1963 |
| Heavenly Bodies | Director of Photography | Movie | 1963 |
| Heavenly Bodies | Editor | Movie | 1963 |
| Heavenly Bodies | Screenplay | Movie | 1963 |
 | Europe in the Raw | Editor | Movie | 1963 |
| Europe in the Raw | Director | Movie | 1963 |
| Europe in the Raw | Cinematography | Movie | 1963 |
| Europe in the Raw | Writer | Movie | 1963 |
| Europe in the Raw | Producer | Movie | 1963 |
 | Wild Gals of the Naked West | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
| Wild Gals of the Naked West | Screenplay | Movie | 1962 |
| Wild Gals of the Naked West | Producer | Movie | 1962 |
| Wild Gals of the Naked West | Director of Photography | Movie | 1962 |
| Wild Gals of the Naked West | Director | Movie | 1962 |
| Wild Gals of the Naked West | Editor | Movie | 1962 |
 | Erotica | Cameraman | Movie | 1961 |
| Erotica | Editor | Movie | 1961 |
| Erotica | Director | Movie | 1961 |
| Erotica | Producer | Movie | 1961 |
| Erotica | Screenplay | Movie | 1961 |
| Erotica | Director of Photography | Movie | 1961 |
 | Eve and the Handyman | Screenplay | Movie | 1961 |
| Eve and the Handyman | Director of Photography | Movie | 1961 |
| Eve and the Handyman | Editor | Movie | 1961 |
| Eve and the Handyman | Producer | Movie | 1961 |
| Eve and the Handyman | Director | Movie | 1961 |
| The Naked Camera | Editor | Movie | 1961 | |
| The Naked Camera | Director | Movie | 1961 | |
| The Naked Camera | Screenplay | Movie | 1961 | |
| The Naked Camera | Director of Photography | Movie | 1961 | |
| The Naked Camera | Producer | Movie | 1961 | |
 | This Is My Body | Cinematography | Movie | 1960 |
| This Is My Body | Director | Movie | 1960 |
| This Is My Body | Writer | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Immoral Mr. Teas | Audience Member (uncredited) | Movie | 1959 |
| The Immoral Mr. Teas | Director of Photography | Movie | 1959 |
| The Immoral Mr. Teas | Director | Movie | 1959 |
| The Immoral Mr. Teas | Screenplay | Movie | 1959 |
| The Immoral Mr. Teas | Editor | Movie | 1959 |
| The Immoral Mr. Teas | Producer | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Desperate Women | Director of Photography | Movie | 1955 |
 | The French Peep Show | Director of Photography | Movie | 1954 |
| The French Peep Show | Director | Movie | 1954 |
| The French Peep Show | Editor | Movie | 1954 |
 | Afro Mood Burlesque | Director | Movie | 1947 |