- After working with Jack Nicholson in The Terror (1963) he classed Jack as a terrible actor, but when he saw him in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) he rethought his opinion--Jack had just been miscast in Roger Corman films.
- His UCLA student movie The Host (2000) was a huge influence on the last third of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979).
- Interviewed in "Wild Beyond Belief: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s" by Brian Albright (McFarland & Co.).
- In 1998 he was set to direct a film project, "Julie McGriff's Difficult World of Sex". Sheryl Lee was set to star in the film, which was to be an offbeat comedy.
- Attended Hollywood High School.
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