Joe Dante

Directing

Born: 1946-11-28

From: Morristown, New Jersey, USA

Gender: Male

Height: 1.70 m

Popularity: 0.9

Also Known As

Joseph James Dante Jr.

Biography

Joseph James Dante Jr. (born November 28, 1946) is an American filmmaker, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)—often mix the 1950s-style B movie genre with 1960s radicalism and cartoon comedy. Dante's output includes the films Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1989), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998), and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). His work for television and cable include the social satire The Second Civil War (1997), episodes of the anthology series Masters of Horror ("Homecoming" and "The Screwfly Solution") and Amazing Stories, as well as Police Squad! and Hawaii Five-0. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Dante, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Awards & Nominations1 won · 0 nominated

🏆 Won

Time Machine Award

2010

Joe Dante

Also Known As

Biography

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Acting124 titles

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy

Making a Monster Movie: Inside 'the Howling'

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

Welcome to Werewolfland

The Vincent Price Legacy

Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs

A Century of Cinema

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!

Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

Making The Earth Stand Still

RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”

Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection

The Orson Welles Show

100 Scariest Movie Moments

She's Alive! Creating 'The Bride of Frankenstein'

42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Cinerama Adventure

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

In Search of Darkness: Part II

The Perfect Scary Movie

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

Karloff: The Gentle Monster

Lugosi: The Dark Prince

Eerie, Indiana

In Search of Darkness: Part III

In Search of Darkness

Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters

Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

Love, Antosha

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years

Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins

Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film

Trailer War

Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion

Soylent Green and Red Alert: When Reality Catches Up with Fiction

Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time

Corman's World

Gremlins

The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time

Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida

The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth

Sharksploitation

Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

That Guy Dick Miller

Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.

The Hatching of Spider Baby

Sad Hill Unearthed

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’

Tales of the Uncanny

From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Leçon de Cinéma

Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow

The Real History of Science Fiction

Innerspace

American Grindhouse

24×36

Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

In Search of Tomorrow