Filmmakers

Ron Rice

Ron Rice

Birth:
1935 (New York City, New York)

Death:
1964

Official Website:
None

Major Works:
Chumlum (1964)
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963)
Senseless (1962)
The Flower Thief (1960)

Years Working:
1960 — 1964

Notes:
Died of pneumonia while on a trip to Mexico.

Allegedly would carry around a hatchet in which to intimidate people into doing what he wanted.

Online Resources:
IMDB: Profile
Hugh McCarney: Biography

Film Books About Ron Rice:
An Introduction to the American Underground Film by Sheldon Renan (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1967) (Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin and Company, Limited, Toronto and Vancouver) (pp. 175-178.)

Video: None

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Underground Film Feedback (5 Notes)

  1. [...] of the “Beat Cinema” movement of the ’60s, which includes films by Jonas Mekas, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, John Cassavetes, William S. Burroughs and more; and a two-night program of the work [...]

    Posted by 2008 Lausanne Underground Film Festival: Official Lineup | Bad Lit | April 11, 2009, 11:00 pm
  2. [...] as far as I know, this is the only photograph of ’60s underground filmmaker Ron Rice on the web, which I scanned from Sheldon Renan’s book An Introduction to the American [...]

    Posted by AFAIK, This Is The Only Photo Of Filmmaker Ron Rice On The Web | Bad Lit | April 16, 2010, 6:02 am
  3. [...] Ron Rice Born: 1935, New York, New York (pp. 175-178.) [...]

    Posted by Who Was Underground In ‘67? | Bad Lit | April 16, 2010, 10:22 pm
  4. [...] Ron Rice: Chumlum, 1964 [...]

    Posted by Anthology Film Archives’ Essential Cinema Repertory Collection | Bad Lit | May 3, 2010, 8:08 am
  5. [...] of plotless cinema, Murphy instead writes about Christopher Maclaine‘s The End and Ron Rice‘s The Flower Thief, both of which were, coincidentally or not, made in San Francisco in the [...]

    Posted by Me And You And Memento And Fargo | Bad Lit | August 6, 2010, 11:08 am

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