Trivia

His UCLA student film The Host (1960) was a huge influence on the last third of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now (1979).

After working with Jack Nicholson in The Terror (1963), he considered him to be a terrible actor, but when he saw him in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), he rethought his opinion - and figured that Nicholson had just been miscast in various Roger Corman films.

In 1998, he was set to direct a film project named "Julie McGriff's Difficult World of Sex". Sheryl Lee was set to star in the film, which was to have been an offbeat comedy.

Interviewed in the book "Wild Beyond Belief: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s" by Brian Albright (McFarland & Co.).

Attended Hollywood High School.