George A. Romero filmography

George A. Romero in 2007

George A. Romero is an American film director, writer, editor and cinematographer. He has contributed to many projects as either the writer, director, editor, cinematographer or a combination of the four.

Romero's first film was the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead, which he produced independently. Romero received a "based on" credit from the 2004 Dawn of the Dead and 2008 Day of the Dead remake films.

Romero was also a contributing producer for the horror television series Tales From the Darkside that ran in the 1980s.

Films

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Editor	Actor	Role	Critical Reception	Average Review
1968	Night of the Living Dead	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Washington reporter	96%	8.6
1971	There's Always Vanilla	Yes		Yes			n/a	n/a
1972	Season of the Witch	Yes	Yes	Yes			57%	5.9
1973	The Crazies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mayor	53%	5.3
1977	Martin	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Father Howard	96%	7.6
1978	Dawn of the Dead	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	TV Director	95%	8.5
1981	Knightriders	Yes	Yes	Yes			82%	6.4
1982	Creepshow	Yes		Yes			69%	6.2
1985	Day of the Dead	Yes	Yes		Yes	Zombie with scarf	82%	6.9
	Document of the Dead				Yes	Himself	n/a	n/a
1987	Creepshow 2		Yes				30%	3.9
	Drive-In Madness				Yes	Himself	n/a	n/a
1988	Monkey Shines	Yes	Yes				50%	5.4
1990	Tales from the Darkside: The Movie		Yes				31%	4.6
	Two Evil Eyes	Yes	Yes				50%	5.2
	Night of the Living Dead		Yes				68%	8.4
1991	The Silence of the Lambs				Yes	FBI Agent in Memphis	94%	6.3
1993	The Dark Half	Yes	Yes				61%	5.8
2000	Bruiser	Yes	Yes				67%	6.0
	The American Nightmare				Yes	Himself	67%	6.6
2004	Dawn of the Dead		Yes				75%	6.7
2005	Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream				Yes	Himself	89%	6.9
	Land of the Dead	Yes	Yes		Yes	Puppeteer	74%	6.6
2006	Night of the Living Dead 3D		Yes				18%	2.6
2007	Creepshow III		Yes				0%	2.7
	Diary of the Dead	Yes	Yes		Yes	Police Chief Arthur Katz	62%	6.1
2008	Day of the Dead		Yes				14%	2.7
	Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero				Yes	Himself	n/a	n/a
2009	Deadtime Stories				Yes	Himself	n/a	n/a
	Survival of the Dead	Yes	Yes				30%	4.9
2010	The Crazies		Yes				71%	6.4
2011	Deadtime Stories 2				Yes	Himself	n/a	n/a

^ I Credited as a producer
^ II Credited as a cinematographer
^ III % of critics who recommend the film
^ IIII Out of 10

Television

Romero was a contributing producer for the 1980s television series 'Tales From The Darkside" Romero made a brief appearance on episode 3 BBC's A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss, where he and Gatiss discussed his independently made film Night of the Living Dead.

Romero is given credit at the end of the zombie themed episode four of the Japanese animated series Space Dandy as having written and directed it, though this is a joke.

Romero made a cameo appearance on the 2014 Phineas and Ferb Halloween special, "Night of the Living Pharmacists", where he voiced a news reporter named "Don Adaded", in reference to his film Dawn of the Dead. The character design was also modeled after Romero.

Video Games

Romero was featured and voiced alongside Robert Englund, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Danny Trejo and Michael Rooker in a downloadable content pack in Call of Duty: Black Ops as a zombie boss in "Call of the Dead", the zombie map included in the content pack named "Escalation".

References

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External links

• George A. Romero at Allmovie
• George A. Romero at the Internet Movie Database
• George A. Romero at Rotten Tomatoes