1. Ulli Lommel was a German actor and director, noted for his many collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his association with the New German Cinema movement.
13 Facts About Ulli Lommel
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Ulli Lommel moved to the United States in 1977, where he wrote, directed and starred in over 50 films.
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Ulli Lommel started his cinematic career as an actor in the early 1960s.
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In 1971, Fassbinder's surrealist western Whity, which Ulli Lommel produced and starred in the leading role, won several German Film Awards.
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Ulli Lommel starred in Fassbinder's The American Soldier, World on a Wire and Chinese Roulette among others.
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Ulli Lommel's second film as director, The Tenderness of Wolves, which was produced by Fassbinder, was a drama about the murders of Fritz Haarmann.
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Ulli Lommel moved to the United States in 1977 and started working with Andy Warhol.
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Ulli Lommel owned an array of Warhol's polaroid photographs and pop art pieces.
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Ulli Lommel produced Cocaine Cowboys, a rock and roll western which starred Jack Palance.
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In 1980, Ulli Lommel directed The Boogeyman, which became a worldwide hit.
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In 2002, Ulli Lommel participated in the documentary Fassbinder in Hollywood, which is available as part of the Arrow Films and Video Fassbinder Collection.
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In 2012 and early 2013, Ulli Lommel produced the feature "The 4 Senses", A Metropole Film production with a $3 million budget, which shot in Venice and Verona, Italy and Savannah, Georgia.
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Ulli Lommel completed his bio-epic documentary Mondo Americana and wrote a book.