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Del Tenney(1930-2013)

  • Producer
  • Actor
  • Writer
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Del Tenney was born in Mason City, Iowa, and moved to California with his parents when he was 12. Attending Los Angeles City and State college, he developed an interest in the theater, became an actor and made a living at it for most of his young adult life. He acted on stage, did extra work in films (Stalag 17 (1953), The Wild One (1953)) and then came to New York looking for work. He found it--working in restaurants and as a detective--but he also managed to land roles in summer stock. Deciding to move behind the camera, Tenney started off as assistant director on some risqué low-budget pictures, then co-wrote and co-directed (without credit) his production of Violent Midnight (1963), a Connecticut-made suspenser with Shepperd Strudwick, Jean Hale, 'Sylvia Miles' and Margot Hartman (Mrs. Tenney). Tenney next made schlock horror history, bringing to the screen the cheapo classics The Horror of Party Beach (1964) and (his favorite) The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964).
BornJuly 27, 1930
DiedFebruary 21, 2013(82)
BornJuly 27, 1930
DiedFebruary 21, 2013(82)
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Known for

The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
The Horror of Party Beach
3.3
  • Producer
  • 1964
I Eat Your Skin (1971)
I Eat Your Skin
3.5
  • Producer
  • 1971
The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)
The Curse of the Living Corpse
5.4
  • Producer
  • 1964
Descendant (2003)
Descendant
4.1
  • Producer
  • 2003

Credits

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Producer

  • Descendant (2003)
    Descendant
  • Jeff Conaway, Joey Lawrence, and Chad Allen in Do You Wanna Know a Secret? (2001)
    Do You Wanna Know a Secret?
  • Clean and Narrow (2000)
    Clean and Narrow
  • I Eat Your Skin (1971)
    I Eat Your Skin
  • Rita Hayworth, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, E.G. Marshall, Anthony Quayle, Gilbert Roland, Harold Sakata, Barry Sullivan, and Eli Wallach in The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
    The Poppy Is Also a Flower
  • Alan Bates in Once Upon a Tractor (1965)
    Once Upon a Tractor
  • The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
    The Horror of Party Beach
  • The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)
    The Curse of the Living Corpse
  • Violent Midnight (1963)
    Violent Midnight

Actor

  • Jeff Conaway, Joey Lawrence, and Chad Allen in Do You Wanna Know a Secret? (2001)
    Do You Wanna Know a Secret?
  • Clean and Narrow (2000)
    Clean and Narrow
  • The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
    The Horror of Party Beach
    • (uncredited)
  • The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)
    The Curse of the Living Corpse
    • (uncredited)
  • Violent Midnight (1963)
    Violent Midnight
    • (uncredited)
  • Satan in High Heels (1962)
    Satan in High Heels
  • Marlon Brando in The Wild One (1953)
    The Wild One
    • (uncredited)
  • William Holden, Harvey Lembeck, and Robert Strauss in Stalag 17 (1953)
    Stalag 17
    • (uncredited)

Writer

  • Descendant (2003)
    Descendant
  • Jeff Conaway, Joey Lawrence, and Chad Allen in Do You Wanna Know a Secret? (2001)
    Do You Wanna Know a Secret?
  • I Eat Your Skin (1971)
    I Eat Your Skin
  • The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)
    The Curse of the Living Corpse
  • Violent Midnight (1963)
    Violent Midnight
    • (uncredited)

Personal details

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    • July 27, 1930
    • Mason City, Iowa, USA
    • February 21, 2013
    • Jupiter, Florida, USA(undisclosed)
    • Margot Hartman? - February 21, 2013 (his death, 3 children)
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    • 1 Print Biography
    • 1 Interview

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    My friends used to come up to me and gasp, "How could you DO all these terrible films?" I told them, "Listen, I cry all the way to the bank".

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