After making documentaries for evangelist Oral Roberts in the early 1950s, Buchanan assisted George Cukor on The Marrying Kind; he also appeared in several '50s films in small roles, including Henry King's The Gunfinghter. In the 1960s he began helming a series of low-budget films, exploiting race (Free, White And 21, High Yellow), sex (Under Age) and the Kennedy assassination (Naughty Dallas, a striptease-fest filmed in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club; The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald). He also made a series of even-cheaper remakes of 1950s AIP science-fictioners: The Eye Creatures, In The Year 2889, Creature of Destruction, and Zontar, the Thing from Venus. His other efforts include the crime film A Bullet for Pretty Boy; the Marilyn Monroe biopics Goodbye, Norma Jean and Good Night, Sweet Marilyn; and the tale of interplanetary sexual frustration, Mars Needs Women.
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Beyond the Doors
Director |
1989 | |||
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Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn
Director |
1989 | |||
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The Loch Ness Horror
Director |
1982 | |||
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Mistress of the Apes
Director, Screenwriter |
1979 | |||
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Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell
Director |
1977 | |||
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Goodbye, Norma Jean
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1975 | |||
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A Bullet for Pretty Boy
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1970 | |||
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Strawberries Need Rain
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
1970 | |||
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It's Alive!
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
1968 | |||
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The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
Director, Producer |
1968 | |||
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Creature of Destruction
Director, Producer |
1967 | |||
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Curse of the Swamp Creature
Director, Producer |
1966 | |||
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In the Year 2889
Director, Producer |
1966 | |||
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Mars Needs Women
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
1966 | |||
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Zontar, the Thing from Venus
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1966 | |||
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Hell Raiders
Director |
1965 | |||
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High Yellow
Director |
1965 | |||
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The Eye Creatures
Director, Producer |
1965 | |||
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Naughty Dallas
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1964 | |||
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1964 | |||
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Under Age
Director, Editor, Screenwriter |
1964 | |||
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Free, White, and 21
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
1962 |