Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a
production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script
clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an
associate producer. He began writing and directing for TV series in the
early 1950s, and directed his first feature in 1953 (Big Leaguer (1953)). Soon
thereafter he established his own production company and produced most
of his own films, collaborating in the writing of many of them. Among
his best-known pictures are Rattennest (1955), Was geschah wirklich mit Baby Jane? (1962) and the muscular WW II
mega-hit Das dreckige Dutzend (1967).
