Robert Clouse

Robert Clouse

director, writer, producer

Robert Clouse was born on Mar 06, 1928 in USA. Robert Clouse's big-screen debut came with Darker Than Amber directed by Robert Clouse in 1970. Robert Clouse is known for Enter the Dragon directed by Robert Clouse, Bruce Lee stars as Lee and John Saxon as Roper. The upcoming new movie Robert Clouse plays is Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story which will be released on May 07, 1993.

A hard-working director throughout his long and varied career, Robert Clouse was best-known for his two most successful films: Opération dragon (1973) and Le jeu de la mort (1978). Born in 1928, he was a director who worked mainly in the visuals of cinema, owing to the fact that he was completely deaf, he employed assistant directors who could verify that actors had delivered their lines correctly. After being hired by Warner Bros. and Golden Harvest to direct Opération dragon (1973), Clouse was escalated into the realm of profitable directors. But, unlike others in this category, doors in Hollywood were not entirely open to him. In 1974, he was hired to direct La ceinture noire (1974) for Warner Brothers Pictures. The film proved to be a moderate success.In 1978, Clouse returned to Hong Kong where he was hired by Golden Harvest's Raymond Chow to direct a comeback movie for Martial Artist Bruce Lee, despite the fact that Lee had died five years earlier. Clouse was given the incomplete footage from Lee's original version of Game of Death, but decided that only a small amount of this footage should be used (mainly because the original film's plot had been re-created countless times in Hong Kong cinema since Lee's death). With the help of Sammo Kam-Bo Hung and Robert Wall, among others, Clouse shot several Bruce Lee lookalikes and stand-ins as well as cutting back to footage from other Lee movies and, of course, the original Game of Death takes. Clouse was never able to match the success of his two Lee films later in his career. He died in 1997, aged 68.

  • Birthday

    Mar 06, 1928
  • Place of Birth

    Denison, Iowa, USA