Russ Meyer

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American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editor, actor, and photographer, known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful sexploitation films that featured campy humour, sly satire and large-breasted women, such as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) and Vixen! (1968). His first feature, the naughty comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959), cost $24,000 to produce and eventually grossed more than $1 million on the independent/exploitation circuit, ensconcing Meyer as "King of the Nudies." Over the next decade, he made nearly 20 movies with a trademark blend of odd humour, huge-breasted starlets and All-American sleaze. Starting in the mid-1990s Meyer had frequent fits and bouts of memory loss. By 2000, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. That same year, with no wife or children to claim his wealth, Meyer willed that the majority of his money and estate would be sent to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in honour of his late mother. Russ Meyer died at his home in the Hollywood Hills, from complications of pneumonia, on 18 September 2004, aged 82. Link to Wikipedia biography