Feb 4, 1940

New York City, New York, USA

George Andrew Romero is an American director, writer, editor and actor. He is best known for his Dead Series, a tetralogy of horror movies (with a fifth installment in production as of October 2006) featuring a zombie apocalypse theme and a commentary on modern society. Romero's films during the nine years after 1968's Night of the Living Dead were less popular: There's Always Vanilla (1971), Jack's Wife / Season of the Witch (1972) and The Crazies (1973). In 1978, Romero returned to the zombie ... ... (read more...) genre with Dawn of the Dead (1978). Romero made a third entry in his "Dead Series" with Day of the Dead (1985), which was less popular at the box office.
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During this period, Romero also made Knightriders (1981), another festival favorite about a group of modern-day jousters who reenact tournaments on motorcycles, and the successful Creepshow (1982), written by Stephen King, an anthology of tongue-in-cheek tales modeled after 1950s horror comics.

Throughout the latter half of the 1980s and 90s, Romero made various films, including Monkey Shines (1988) about a killer monkey, Two Evil Eyes (1990), an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation in collaboration with Dario Argento, the Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half (1992) and Bruiser (2000), about a man whose face becomes a blank mask.

Romero had a cameo appearance in Jonathan Demme's Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 as one of Hannibal Lecter's jailers.