David F. Friedman (born December 24, 1923) is an American filmmaker and film producer from Birmingham, Alabama. Events 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by Earthquakes Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. Birmingham (ˈbɝmɪŋhæm is the largest City in the US state of Alabama and is the County seat of Jefferson County.

Friedman first became interested in entertainment after spending parts of his childhood at traveling carnival sites. He met exploitation film pioneer Kroger Babb during his stay in the Army. Exploitation film is a type of film that eschews the expense of quality productions in favor of making films inexpensively attracting viewers by exciting their more prurient interests Howard W "Kroger" Babb (December 30 1906 – January 28 1980 was an American film and television producer and Showman. This encounter got him interested in films. Working as a regional marketing man for Paramount he sensed the money in independent distributing and started his own company in the 1950s. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. His company mainly produced so-called Nudie Cuties, films such as Goldilocks and The Three Bares shot in nudist colonies being the closest thing to pornography legally available back then. Goldilocks and The Three Bares is the thought to be "lost" second to last nudie-cutie from the legendary exploitation team of Herschell Gordon Lewis A nudist community (or in Europe naturist community) is a group of nudists/naturists who choose to live together on a permanent basis where clothing is optional This trend was followed by the Roughie genre, depicting simulated sex with a more violent edge, often horror- or crime-related. Examples of Friedman's roughies are "The Adult Version Of Jekyll and Hide" and The Headmistress (1968). Helming one of those movies Friedman started his working relationship with Chicago based teacher and film maker Herschell Gordon Lewis. Herschell Gordon Lewis (born 15 June 1929, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, U

Friedman went on to produce the latter's 1963 film Blood Feast, an American exploitation film often considered the first "gore" or splatter film. Blood Feast ( 1963, also known as Egyptian Blood Feast and Feast of Flesh) is an American Horror film directed A splatter film or gore film is a type of Horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and Graphic violence. He was also the producer of the 1974 Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS, credited as Herman Traeger. The year 1974 in film involved some significant events Events February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released Ilsa She Wolf of the SS is a 1974 Nazi exploitation film produced in the USA.

With the advent of hard core porn as a commercial factor in the mid 70s Friedman began to slow down his output. His work ethic "Sell the sizzle not the steak" would not comply with actual intercourse shown on screen. Still he was president of an organization of Adult Film Makers.

In the early 1990s Seattle's Something Weird Video, owned by Mike Vraney, started to re-issue the work of David Friedman, getting him the attention of a new generation exploitation and b-movie collectors. Something Weird Video is an American publisher of video tapes and DVDs based in Seattle Washington. A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double He can be heard on the audio commentary track of some of the company's releases. In 2000, Friedman was featured alongside cult filmmakers Roger Corman, Doris Wishman, Harry Novak and others in the documentary SCHLOCK! The Secret History of American Movies, a film about the rise and fall of American exploitation cinema. Roger William Corman (born April 5 1926) sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies (though he himself rejects this as inaccurate Doris Wishman ( June 1 1912, New York City – August 10 2002, Miami Florida) was an American Film director, Harry Novak, "the sexploitation king" produced and distributed a prolific number of Exploitation films from the early 60's to the mid-70's including William Rotsler

References

• RE/Search No. 10: Incredibly Strange Films RE/Search Publications 1986, ISBN 0-940642-09-3
• David F. RE/Search No 10 Incredibly Strange Films is a book about American Underground films edited by V RE/Search Publications is a United States magazine and book publisher based in San Francisco, founded and edited by V Friedman A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King, Prometheus Books 1998

External links

• David F. Friedman at the Internet Movie Database
• David F. Freidman at BhamWiki. com