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George Romero Biography
Birth Name:
George Andrew Romero
Birth Place:
New York, New York, United States
Profession
Director, screenwriter, producer
Fast Facts
- His father is Cuban, his mother is Lithuanian
- Formed a Pittsburgh production company called Latent Image, which created industrial films and TV commercials, in the early 1960s
- Made his feature-film directorial debut in 1968 with the zombie-horror classic Night of the Living Dead, which spawned several sequels and was eventually inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress
- Met his second wife, Christine Forrest, while he was working on the 1972 horror-drama Season of the Witch, which was produced by his first wife, Nancy Romero
- Made a cameo appearance in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs
- Received the New York City Horror Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 and the CineVegas International Film Festival's Vanguard Director Award in 2005
Relationships
- Tina Romero -- Daughter
- George Cameron Romero -- Son