Filmmakers
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
[...] 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 [...]
[...] 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 [...]
[...] Ron Rice Born: 1935, New York, New York (pp. 175-178.) [...]
[...] Ron Rice: Chumlum, 1964 [...]
[...] 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 [...]