Elmer Clifton
Elmer Clifton( March 14, 1890 – October 15, 1949) was an American writer, director and actor from the early silent days.
A collaborator of D.W. Griffith, he appeared in" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915) and" Intolerance"( 1916) before giving up acting in 1917 to concentrate on work behind the camera, with Griffith and Joseph Henabery as his mentors.
His first feature- length solo effort as a director was" The Flame of Youth" with Jack Mulhall.
Clifton honed his talents during the late 1910s, directing vehicles for Mulhall and Herbert Rawlinson at Universal and then for Dorothy Gish for Famous Players- Lasky.
Two of his projects with Gish," Nobody Home" and" Nugget Nell", featured performances from pre-stardom Rudolph Valentino.
Most of this early output has been lost.
He was the first filmmaker to discover the talents of Clara Bow, whom he cast in" Down to the Sea in Ships", released on March 4, 1923.
The independently produced film was well reviewed for its visual authenticity.
During the 1920s, Clifton directed films for several different studios.
During the filming of" The Warrens of Virginia"( 1924) for Fox Film Corporation, lead actress Martha Mansfield suffered a fatal accident from burns when her costume caught fire.
Clifton directed" The Wreck of the Hesperus" for Cecil B. deMille's production company, and filmed on location in the Grand Canyon for" The Bride of the Colorado".
He also directed some Technicolor short films, including" Manchu Love" with an all- Asian cast.
In the sound era, Clifton wrote and directed many poverty row Westerns and" exploitation" classics, among them the anti-marijuana polemic" Assassin of Youth"( 1937).
He also directed the vice films" Gambling with Souls"( 1936)," Slaves in Bondage"( 1937) and" City of Missing Girls"( 1941), all of which portrayed addiction and white slavery to some degree.
His last film was" Not Wanted"( 1949), which was finished by producer Ida Lupino when Clifton became ill and was unable to work anymore.
He died in 1949 of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly after the film's release.
Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci( 17 June 1927 – 13 March 1996) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.
Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career spanning nearly five decades, including comedy, spaghetti western, adventure, science fiction and erotica, he garnered an international cult following for his giallo and horror films.
His most notable films include the" Gates of Hell" trilogy —" City of the Living Dead"( 1980)," The Beyond"( 1981), and" The House by the Cemetery"( 1981) —as well as" Massacre Time"( 1966)," One on Top of the Other"( 1969)," A Lizard in a Woman's Skin"( 1971)," Do n't Torture a Duckling"( 1972)," White Fang"( 1973)," Four of the Apocalypse"( 1975)," Sette note in nero"( 1977)," Zombi 2"( 1979)," Contraband"( 1980)," The Black Cat"( 1981)," The New York Ripper"( 1982)," Murder Rock"( 1984), and" A Cat in the Brain"( 1990).
Because of the high level of visceral graphic violence present in many of his films, especially" Zombi 2" and" The Beyond", Fulci is frequently referred to as" The Godfather of Gore", a title also given to Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Fulci was in his young adult years a politically active radical for the Italian Communist Party.
Stefano Badami
Stefano Badami (December 10, 1888 – March 31, 1955) was the first boss of the Elizabeth crime family.
Badami controlled the family from Elizabeth, New Jersey.
In 1937, after D'Amico went into hiding his family gained rackets in Newark, New Jersey.
Badami was murdered in 1955 in a power struggle between factions of his crime family.
Joseph Ardizzone
Joseph" Iron Man" Ardizzone( born Giuseppe Ernesto Ardizzone;; November 19, 1884 – disappeared October 15, 1931, declared dead 1938) was an Italian- born early Los Angeles mobster, who became the first Boss of the Los Angeles crime family.
He was involved in a long- standing feud with the Matranga family.
He once claimed to have killed 30 men.
Sebastiano DiGaetano
Sebastiano DiGaetano( August 17, 1862 – disappeared March 1912) was an Italian- born New York City mafia boss of what would later become known as the Bonanno crime family.
He briefly attained the title" capo dei capi"( English:" Boss of bosses") of the Sicilian- American mafia, after Giuseppe Morello had been convicted of counterfeiting money in 1910.
DiGaetano stepped down as boss of his crime family in 1912, and disappeared shortly thereafter.
Boss of Rawhide
Boss of Rawhide is a 1943 American Western film written and directed by Elmer Clifton.
The film stars Dave O'Brien, James Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Nell O' Day, Ed Cassidy and Jack Ingram.
The film was released on November 20, 1943, by Producers Releasing Corporation.
Alphonse D'Arco
Alphonse" Little Al" D' Arco( July 28, 1932 – c. March 2019), also known as" The Professor", was a New York mobster who became the acting boss of the Lucchese crime family.
He was the first boss, acting or otherwise, of a New York crime family to become a government witness.
Contraband (1980 film)
Contraband is a 1980 poliziotteschi film directed by Lucio Fulci.
The film is set in Naples, where Luca Di Angelo( Fabio Testi) and his brother Michele use speedboats to smuggle cigarettes, and find themselves between two contraband bosses after they lose a load of cigarettes.
The film's story was changed to include additional scenes of violence and to better pace the plot.
On the second week of a ten- week shooting schedule, the production exhausted its budget and received funding from real life smugglers in Naples.
The smugglers also made changes to the plot and title of the film.
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
The Boss of Big Town
The Boss of Big Town is a 1942 American film directed by Arthur Dreifuss.

Question: Which film has the director who died first, Boss Of Rawhide or Contraband (1980 Film)?
Answer: Boss Of Rawhide