David F. Friedman (born December 24, 1923) is an American filmmaker and film producer from Birmingham, Alabama.
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. This encounter got him interested in films. Working as a regional marketing man for Paramount he sensed the money in independent distributing and s...
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David F. Friedman (born December 24, 1923) is an American filmmaker and film producer from Birmingham, Alabama.
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. 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. 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. This trend was followed by the sexploitation and "Roughie" genres, 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...
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