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| Popular As | David Schmoeller |
| Occupation | Director |
| Age | 76 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | December 8, 1947 (Louisville, Kentucky, USA) |
| Birthday | December 8 |
| Town/City | Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
David Schmoeller’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius. According to astrologers, Sagittarius is curious and energetic, it is one of the biggest travelers among all zodiac signs. Their open mind and philosophical view motivates them to wander around the world in search of the meaning of life. Sagittarius is extrovert, optimistic and enthusiastic, and likes changes. Sagittarius-born are able to transform their thoughts into concrete actions and they will do anything to achieve their goals.
David Schmoeller was born in the Year of the Pig. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Pig are extremely nice, good-mannered and tasteful. They’re perfectionists who enjoy finer things but are not perceived as snobs. They enjoy helping others and are good companions until someone close crosses them, then look out! They’re intelligent, always seeking more knowledge, and exclusive. Compatible with Rabbit or Goat.
Raised and educated in Texas, David Schmoeller began his career as a young playwright and was awarded the Texas Good Neighbor Scholarship for studies in Mexico, attending the Universidad De Las Americas from 1967-1968.
In Mexico he studied theater with Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo (1970)) and was mentored in film by legendary director Luis Buñuel. After a stint as an interpreter for ABC Sports during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Schmoeller returned to Texas and completed a Masters program in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.
His thesis film, The Spider Will Kill You (1976), funded by a grant from the Directors Guild of America, received an Academy Award Student Film Nomination in 1974, losing in the finals to Robert Zemeckis student short A Field of Honor (1973).
Subsequently, under the auspices of the American Film Institute with funding from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Schmoeller spent six months as an intern with writer-director Peter Hyams on Capricorn One (1977).
Schmoeller's first feature, Tourist Trap (1979) (which he wrote and directed), is the favorite film of master storyteller of modern horror Stephen King. His writing and directing credits include work on the highly-praised television series James at 16 (1977) as well as the feature films The Seduction (1982) for Embassy Pictures; Crawlspace (1986), Ghost Town (1988) and Catacombs (1988) for Empire Entertainment and the cult classic Puppet Master (1989) for Paramount Pictures.
"Puppetmaster" subsequently became one of the most successful franchise horror films ever made, producing seven more sequels, the latest in 2003 (Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)). Schmoeller's film The Arrival (1991), a science-fiction black comedy, was selected for the Midnight Madness screening at the Toronto Film Festival.
After "The Arrival," Schmoeller wrote and directed Netherworld (1992), a ghost story filmed in New Orleans. Produced by Full Moon Entertainment, "Netherworld" was also released by Paramount. Schmoeller then directed two children's features: The Secret Kingdom (1998) and "Mysterious Museum" in New Orleans and the Romanian cities of Bucharest and Sinia.
In addition to his feature work, Schmoeller has directed many hours of network television, including three seasons of the CBS-USA Network series Silk Stalkings (1991) as well as Renegade (1992) and the pilot and multiple episodes of Cop Files (1995), a series for the Fox Network.
He was honored on January 26, 2007, in Paris by the Cinematheque Francaise with a tribute to David Schmoeller screening, showing two of his early features ("Tourist Trap" and "Crawlspace") as well as his celebrated short documentary on directing enfant terrible Klaus Kinski: Please Kill Mr.
Kinski (1999).In March 2007 Schmoeller was a Visiting International Artist at Objectifs Centre for Photography & Filmmaking in Singapore, where he shot the Singapore segment of a film he is making, Wedding Day (2008) (set in Las Vegas, Paris and Singapore), about a bride in each city on her wedding day as something unexpected happens.
Schmoeller has been an internationally recognized feature film and television writer-director (nine feature films, many hours of network television and numerous award-winning shorts) for over three decades.
Schmoeller has two feature film projects in development: "Little Monsters," a crime drama and "Neon Desert," a romantic-comedy. His short Spanking Lessons (2007) won the Cinevegas Jury Award for Best Nevada Filmmaker.
Schmoeller is an Associate Professor of film production at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and runs the Film Department's UNLV Short Film Archive. He can be reached at [email protected].
