**George Andrew Romero** (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian director, writer, editor and actor. He is known for his horror movies with zombie themes.

Life and work
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Romero was born in the Bronx, New York City to a Cuban-American father of Spanish ancestry and a Lithuanian-American mother.

Romero went to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 1960, he started directing short movies and commercials before moving onto horror movies. He and friends started a directing group called *Image Ten Productions* in the 1960s, and they made *Night of the Living Dead* (1968). The movie was directed by Romero and written with John A. Russo. It became a cult classic.

Later, Romero made *There's Always Vanilla* (1971), *Jack's Wife / Season of the Witch* (1972) and *The Crazies* (1973), *Martin* (1977), and *Creepshow* (1982). His most well-known movies are *Night of the Living Dead* and *Creepshow*.

In 1978, Romero made another zombie movie called *Dawn of the Dead* (1978). The movie made over $55 million and was named one of the top cult movies by *Entertainment Weekly* in 2003. Romero made a third zombie movie called *Day of the Dead* (1985), which was less popular.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Romero made other movies such as *Monkey Shines* (1988) (about a killer helper monkey), *Two Evil Eyes* (1990), *The Dark Half* (1993) and *Bruiser* (2000) (about a man whose face becomes a blank mask).

In 1998, Romero made a commercial for Resident Evil 2.

Universal Studios made a remake of *Dawn of the Dead* in 2004, without Romero.

Romero divorced his wife, Christine Forrest. They have two children together. Romero then married Suzanne Desrocher in 2011. He became a dual American -Canadian citizen in 2009.

Death
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Romero died of lung cancer on July 16, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario at the age of 77.

Favourite movies
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Romero chose his favourite top ten movies of all time as: *The Brothers Karamazov*, *Casablanca*, *Dr. Strangelove*, *High Noon*, *King Solomon's Mines* (1950), *North by Northwest*, *The Quiet Man*, *Repulsion*, *Touch of Evil* and *The Tales of Hoffman*. *The Tales of Hoffman* is Romero's "favourite film of all time; the movie that made me want to make movies."

Movies made
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1. *Night of the Living Dead* (1968)
2. *There's Always Vanilla* (1971)
3. *The Crazies* (1973)
4. *Jack's Wife / Season of the Witch* (1973)
5. *The Winners* (1973, television series)
6. *O. J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose* (1974)
7. *Martin* (1977)
8. *Dawn of the Dead* (1978)
9. *Knightriders* (1981)
10. *Creepshow* (1982)
11. *Tales from the Darkside* (1984, television series)
12. *Day of the Dead* (1985)
13. *Monkey Shines* (1988)
14. *Two Evil Eyes* (1990)
15. *The Dark Half* (1993)
16. *Bruiser* (2000)
17. *Land of the Dead* (2005)
18. *Diary of the Dead* (2008)
19. *Island of the Dead* (2009)
20. *The Crazies* (2010)

Books written
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1. *Dawn of the Dead* (with Susan Sparrow; movie tie-in), 1979
2. *Bizarro!* by Tom Savini (foreword), 1984
3. *Martin* (with Susan Sparrow; movie tie-in), 1984
4. *Book of the Dead* edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector (foreword), 1989
5. *Toe Tags* #1-6 ("The Death of Death"; DC Comics), 2004–2005

Critical studies
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* Gagne, Paul R. *The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh: the Films of George A. Romero* (New York: Dodd, Mead 1987)
* Newman, Kim. *Nightmare Movies: A Critical History of the Horror Film 1968-1988* (1988)
* Williams, Tony. *Knight of the Living Dead: The Cinema of George A. Romero* (London: Wallflower Press 2003)

Other websites
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to ***George A. Romero***.

* George A. Romero on IMDb
* Simon Pegg interviews George A. Romero Archived 2007-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
* Homepage of the Dead - Romero Fan Site (information, forums, art gallery and fiction)