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|             name = Russ Meyer
|            photo = [[Image:Russ Meyer.jpg|240px|Russ Meyer]]
|            alias = King Leer<ref name="nyt">{{cite web | title = The Man Who Really, Really Loved Women | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/magazine/26MEYER.html | accessdate = 2008-06-17 | date = 2004-12-26 | last = Gore | first = Chris | work = The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="bbc">{{cite web | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3680976.stm | work = BBC News | title = Cult film-maker Russ Meyer dies | accessdate = 2008-06-17 | date = 2004-09-22}}</ref>

|      birth month = 3
|        birth day = 21
|       birth year = 1922
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|   birth location = San Leandro, California, USA<ref name="times">{{cite web | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1075999.ece | title = Sexploitation king Russ Meyer dies, aged 82 | accessdate = 2008-06-17 | date = 2004-09-22 | first = Philippe | last =  Naughton | work = Times Online}}</ref>

|      death month = 9
|        death day = 18
|       death year = 2004
|        death ref = <ref name="imdb">{{cite web | url = http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000540 | title = IMDb profile | accessdate = 2008-06-17}}</ref>
|   death location = Hollywood Hills, California, USA<ref name="imdb"/>

|     years active = 1955-2001
|      nationality = american
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'''Russell Albion Meyer''' (born [[March 21]], [[1922]], died [[September 18]], [[2004]]), was an American motion picture {{np-director}} and {{np-photographer}}. He was married to [[Eve Meyer]] from 1955<ref name="vv">{{cite web | url = http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/jsaltz/saltz6-6-02.asp | title = Bosom Maximus | last = Saltz | first = Jerry | accessdate = 2008-06-17 | work = artnet}} Reprint (with pictures) from: {{cite web | url = http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0222,170083,35354,13.html | title = Bosom Maximus | last = Saltz | first = Jerry | accessdate = 2008-06-17 | date = 2002-06-04 | work = The Village Voice}}</ref><ref name="ebert"/> until 1970.<ref name="ebert">{{cite web | url = http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040922/PEOPLE/40921010 | title = King of the funny skin flicks | last = Ebert | first = Roger | accessdate = 2008-06-17 | date = 2004-09-22 | publisher = Chicago Sun-Times | work = rogerebert.com}}</ref>


== Work ==
=== Photographer ===
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Russ Meyer started his career as a [[Playboy]] centerfold photographer.<ref name="nyt"/> In [[1955]], he married [[Eve Meyer|Eve Turner]]<ref name="ebert"/> and photographed her as Playmate of the month for the [[June 1955]] issue.<ref name="playboy">{{cite web | url = http://www.playboy.com/girls/playmates/directory/195506.html | title = Playmate directory profile of Eve Meyer | accessdate = 2008-06-17}}</ref>

[[Image:Eve Meyer blue sweater.jpg|175x230px|thumb|left|''[[Eve Meyer|Eve]] in blue sweater'' (1960)]]
[[Image:Lorna Maitland Cushion.jpg|175x230px|thumb|left|''[[Lorna Maitland|Lorna]] on green cushion'' (1964)]]<br clear="left"/>

=== Director ===
[[Image:Russ Meyer Dolls.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Russ Meyer directing ''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'' in 1970]]
Meyer's work as a film director has been divided into four stylistic periods. First were the "nudie-cuties"-- burlesque-style comedies which Meyer inaugurated with ''[[The Immoral Mr. Teas]]'' in [[1959]] and ended with ''[[Heavenly Bodies]]'' in 1963.<ref name="Frasier-4">Frasier (1998), p. 4.</ref> Next came the "Drive-in Steinbeck" period, films which have also been labeled "roughies" and "kinkies".<ref>{{cite book|last=Moledski|first=Tania|year=2007|editor=Jeffrey Sconce|title=Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics|chapter=Women's Cinema as Counterphobic Cinema: Doris Wishman as the Last Auteur|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham and London|id=ISBN 0-7864-0472-8|pages=p. 49}}</ref> Another American film genre which Meyer started, his "roughies" began with ''[[Lorna (film)|Lorna]]'' in [[1964]], and ended with ''[[Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!]]'' in 1966. Meyer's "Color Synch-Sound Sex Dramas" began with ''[[Common-Law Cabin]]'' in [[1967]] and concluded with ''[[Cherry, Harry, and Raquel!]]'' in [[1969]]. His "Parody-Satire" period started with the 20th-Century Fox film, ''[[Beyond the Valley of the Dolls]]'' ([[1970]]) and continued throughout his last independently-produced films, concluding with ''[[Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens]]'' in [[1979]].<ref name="Frasier-4"/> Scattered throughout his film career were five uncharacteristic productions: ''[[Europe in the Raw!]]'' ([[1963]]), which critics call a documentary, but Meyer considered a "nudie-cutie", ''[[Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure]]'' ([[1964]]), a mainstream historical film made in Europe, ''[[Mondo Topless]]'' ([[1966]]) a documentary, ''[[The Seven Minutes]]'' ([[1971]]) Meyer's second film for Fox, and ''[[Blacksnake]]'' ([[1973]]), Meyer's second unsuccessful attempt at a historical film.<ref name="Frasier-4"/> Meyer's last released film, ''[[Pandora Peaks (film)|Pandora Peaks]]'', was a video in documentary style.

== Filmography<ref>Filmography based on {{cite book|last=Frasier|first=David K.|year=1998|title=Russ Meyer : The Life and Films : A Biography and A Comprehensive, Illustrated, and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography|publisher=McFarland & Co|location=Jefferson, N.C.|id=ISBN 0-7864-0472-8|pages=pp. 203-211}}</ref> ==
{{filmography start|style=listfull}}
{{film|Bivouac in the Ozarks|style=listfull|released=[[1944]]|notes=Army training film}}
{{film|The French Peep Show|style=listfull|released=[[1950]]|notes=Documentary Short}}
{{film|The Immoral Mr. Teas|style=listfull}}
{{film|This Is My Body|released=[[1960]]|notes=Short film|company= RM Films|starring=[[Diane Webber]]|style=listfull}}
{{film|Eve and the Handyman|style=listfull}}
{{film|The Naked Camera|released=[[1961]]|notes=Short film|starring= Mikki France|style=listfull}}
{{film|Erotica (film)|style=listfull}}
{{film|Wild Gals of the Naked West!|style=listfull}}
{{film|Skyscrapers and Brassieres|released=[[1963]]|notes=Short film|starring=Rochelle Kennedy|style=listfull}}
{{film|Europe in the Raw!|style=listfull}}
{{film|Heavenly Bodies|style=listfull}}
{{film|Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure|style=listfull}}
{{film|Lorna|style=listfull}}
{{film|Mudhoney|style=listfull}}
{{film|Motorpsycho|style=listfull}}
{{film|Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!|style=listfull}}
{{film|Mondo Topless|style=listfull}}
{{film|Common-Law Cabin|style=listfull}}
{{film|Good Morning... and Goodbye!|style=listfull}}
{{film|Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers!|style=listfull}}
{{film|Vixen!|style=listfull}}
{{film|Cherry, Harry, and Raquel!|style=listfull}}
{{film|Beyond the Valley of the Dolls|style=listfull}}
{{film|The Seven Minutes|style=listfull}}
{{film|Blacksnake|style=listfull}}
{{film|Supervixens|style=listfull}}
{{film|Up!|style=listfull}}
{{film|Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens|style=listfull}}
{{film|Pandora Peaks (film)|released=[[2002]]|notes=Documentary|style=listfull}}
{{filmography end}}

== See also ==
* {{model list|actresses}}
* {{cl|Russ Meyer films}}
* {{cl|Russ Meyer photos}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.rmfilms.com RM Films International] - The Movies of Russ Meyer
==Bibliography==
* Frasier, David K. (1998). ''Russ Meyer: The Life and Films'' A Biography and a Comprehensive, Illustrated, and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-7864-0472-8.
* McDonough, Jimmy. (2005) ''Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film''. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 1-4000-5044-8.

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== References ==
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