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| Albert Band Biography Albert Band was born in Paris. His father was Max Band, twentieth-century impressionist whose paintings hang in over 30 museums throughout the world, and one of the founders of the School of Paris. In 1940, a few months ahead of the German invasion, the Band family moved to the United States and settled in Los Angeles, where they became U.S. citizens. Band started in the motion picture industry as assistant film editor at Warner bros. in 1994. After a two-year stint there, he became story editor at Enterprise Studios, then assistant to producer Wolfgang Reinhardt on Robert Rosen's "body And Soul" and Max Ophul's "Caught". in 1949, Band staged the U.S. premiere of Albert Camu's Caligula at the Concert for the Circle Theatre. Later that year, he became personal production assistant to john Huston at MGM, and worked on all phases of production on "The Asphalt Jungle" and "The Red Badge of Courage", for which he received his first writing screen credit. In 1951, he staged Moliere's Tartuffe, and then became a live television director. His first theatrical motion picture was "The Young Guns". Band acquired the rights to Stephen Crane's short story, The monster, which he produced-directed in Sweden as a co-production with Allied Artists, under the title "Face of Fire". He then produced - directed "I Bury The Living", which novelist Stephen King called "one of the scariest films ever made." In 1960, Band took his family to Rome, where they resided for 12 years. in Europe, he produced, wrote and/or directed such films as the successful "The Avenger" mythology series, "The Tramplers", "The Hellbenders" and "A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die". After returning from Europe, Band produced features for companies such as AIP and EMI. He later became involved in the development of a number of properties, culminating in the formation of Albert Band international Pictures. A veteran filmmaker, Albert Band is one of Hollywood's most prolific filmmakers who started his career in the early 50's. He began financing a number of motion pictures through the seventies and eighties and helped his son Charles Band, bring together his own production company, Empire Pictures, in the early eighties. upon the collapse of Empire Pictures in the early nineties, Band continued to work with his son and help bring a number of low-budget and medium budget films to the Hollywood screen and some direct to video releases. Albert Band died in June of 2002 of stomach and lung cancer. his other son, Richard Band, is a film music composer for a number of motion pictures. Albert Band Filmography Return to Biography |