Rupert Hitzig
{{short description|American actor}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Rupert Hitzig
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|08|15}}
| occupation = Director, producer, actor and screenwriter
}}
Rupert Hitzig (born August 15, 1938) is an American director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He graduated from Harvard University.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8kspv2V_0ksC&pg=PA49 |title=Surprise was My Teacher: Memories and Confessions of a Television Producer/director who Came of Age During Television's Adolescence |first=Merrill |last=Brockway |publisher=Sunstone Press |year=2010 |page=49 |isbn=9780865347489}}
Career
With executive producer Berry Gordy he produced The Last Dragon (1985), directed by Michael Schultz and written by Louis Venosta.{{cite news |url=https://movieweb.com/last-dragon-trailer-30th-anniversary-blu-ray/ |title=The Last Dragon 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Trailer |first=B. Alan |last=Orange |date=July 27, 2015 |access-date=April 27, 2019 |work=MovieWeb |publisher=Watchr Media}} With Robert Boris he wrote the screenplay for Electra Glide in Blue (1973), directed by James William Guercio and starring Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush and Mitchell Ryan.{{cite news |url=https://afdigitale.it/cinema-e-motori-electra-glide-in-blue-laltra-faccia-delle-2-ruote-anni-70/ |title=Cinema e Motori – "Electra Glide In Blue" l'altra faccia delle 2 ruote anni '70 |date=January 18, 2019 |access-date=April 27, 2019 |first=Giovanna |last=Guiso |work=AF Digitale |language=it}} With Alan Landsburg he produced Jaws 3-D (1983), directed by Joe Alves and James Contner as director of photography.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MmYhDg5tGJYC&pg=PA118 |title=3-D Revolution: The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema |first=Ray |last=Zone |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |date=July 29, 2012 |page=118 |isbn=9780813140704}}
He was looking to direct his first film for under a million of dollars. Chris Black grabbed a copy of The Boy Who Cried Devil and passed it along. Thanks to Black, Richard Corey, Scott Hill and Hitzig, started Night Visitor (1989).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3jpDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 |title=It Came from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers |first=Francesco |last=Borseti |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=August 16, 2016 |page=170 |isbn=9781476625638}}
Filmography
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! Year ! Title ! Director ! Assistant director ! Producer ! Writer ! Actor |
| TBA
| The Curse of Hezekiah | align="center"| ✓ | | | | |
| TBA
| Stuff It | align="center"| ✓ | | align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| 2009
| Dialogues | | | | | align="center"| ✓ |
| rowspan=2| 2006
| Four Weeks in May | align="center"| ✓ | | align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| T.E.A.M.W.O.R.K.
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| rowspan=2| 2003
| Static | | | align="center"| ✓ | | |
| Box Time: Playhouse
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| 2002
| NASCAR Victory Lane: All Access | | | align="center"| ✓ | | |
| 1998
| Nowhere Land | align="center"| ✓ | | | | |
| 1994
| Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart | align="center"| ✓ | | | | |
| 1993
| Real Stories of the Highway Patrol | align="center"| ✓ | | | | |
| 1990
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| 1989
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| 1987
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| 1985
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| 1983
| Jaws 3-D | | align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | | |
| rowspan=2| 1981
| Wolfen | | align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | | |
| Cattle Annie and Little Britches
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| rowspan=2| 1980
| Thanksgiving Special | | | align="center"| ✓ | | |
| Happy Birthday, Gemini
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| 1979
| Third Annual Final Warning!! | | | align="center"| ✓ | | |
| rowspan=2| 1978
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| Second Final Warning
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| 1977
| Final Warning | | | align="center"| ✓ | | |
| rowspan=3| 1976
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| Return to Earth
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| The Second Annual Comedy Awards
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| 1975
| Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell | | | align="center"| ✓ | | |
| 1974
| Energy Crisis | | | align="center"| ✓ | | |
| rowspan=3| 1973
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| Much Ado About Nothing
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| Birds of Prey
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| 1970
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References
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External links
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