‘Grosse Pointe Clean’ Director Was 82
George Armitage, the director recognized 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 loss of life 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 trade, working within the mail room at twentieth Century Fox whereas ready for his actual property license to return by way of.
Inside a 12 months, Armitage was an affiliate producer on the ABC cleaning soap Peyton Place. “It was an unimaginable expertise,” he recalled in 2015.
“There was a producer there named Everett Chambers who would work on a variety of movies with John Cassavetes, he was often useful,” stated Armitage. “This was simply on the time when the fortysomething producers who had been form of hip and jazz-oriented had been coming in… I used to be 21, 22, one thing like that, and in the event you had been younger, in the event you had an opinion, had been form of hip, knew what was occurring with your personal era, you had been very precious. So I went from producer to producer all around the lot pitching concepts, I created collection, I wrote a few issues for tv and, about that point, began writing screenplays.”
In 1971, he wrote and directed his characteristic debut Personal Responsibility Nurses, adopted by the 1972 blaxploitation-themed movie Hit Man, starring Pam Grier and Bernie Casey.
Armitage additionally directed the movies Vigilante Power (1976), Sizzling Rod (1979) and The Massive Bounce (2004). After assembly him throughout his early days at Fox, Armitage steadily labored with Roger Corman.
