George Andrew Romero (/rəˈmɛəroÊŠ/; February 4, 1940 â€" July 16,
2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer, and editor. He is
best known for his Night of the Living Dead series of gruesome and
satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, which
began with the 1968 film of the same name. It is often considered a
progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture. Other films in
the series include Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985).
Aside from this series, his works include The Crazies (1973), Martin
(1978), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), The Dark Half (1993)
and Bruiser (2000). He also created and executive-produced the
1983â€"88 television series Tales from the Darkside.Romero is often
noted as an influential pioneer of the horror film genre and has been
called an "icon" and the "Father of the Zombie Film."Romero was born
in the New York City borough of the Bronx, the son of Anne (Dvorsky)
and George Romero, a commercial artist. His mother was Lithuanian, and
his father moved from Spain to Cuba as a child. His father has been
reported as being born in A Coruña, with his family coming from the
Galician town of Neda, although Romero once described his father as of
Castilian descent.Raised in the Bronx, he would frequently ride the
subway into Manhattan to rent film reels to view at his house. He was
one of only two people who repeatedly rented the opera-based film The
Tales of Hoffmann; the other was future director Martin Scorsese.
Romero attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer, and editor. He is
best known for his Night of the Living Dead series of gruesome and
satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, which
began with the 1968 film of the same name. It is often considered a
progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture. Other films in
the series include Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985).
Aside from this series, his works include The Crazies (1973), Martin
(1978), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), The Dark Half (1993)
and Bruiser (2000). He also created and executive-produced the
1983â€"88 television series Tales from the Darkside.Romero is often
noted as an influential pioneer of the horror film genre and has been
called an "icon" and the "Father of the Zombie Film."Romero was born
in the New York City borough of the Bronx, the son of Anne (Dvorsky)
and George Romero, a commercial artist. His mother was Lithuanian, and
his father moved from Spain to Cuba as a child. His father has been
reported as being born in A Coruña, with his family coming from the
Galician town of Neda, although Romero once described his father as of
Castilian descent.Raised in the Bronx, he would frequently ride the
subway into Manhattan to rent film reels to view at his house. He was
one of only two people who repeatedly rented the opera-based film The
Tales of Hoffmann; the other was future director Martin Scorsese.
Romero attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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