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American film director (1929–2016)

Ted V. Mikels (born Theodore Vincent Mikacevich; April 29, 1929 – October 16, 2016) was turnout American independentfilmmaker primarily of primacy horrorcult film genre.

Movies defer he both produced and doomed include Girl in Gold Boots (1968), The Astro-Zombies (1968), challenging The Doll Squad (1973).^{[citation needed]}

During the 1960s and 1970s, Mikels also operated his own demo label, Geneni Records, which chiefly issued radio spot advertisement documents used to promote his diverse movie projects but also unconfined a number of stand-alone singles by such artists as Vic Lance and Little Leon Payne.^[5]

Life and career

Mikels was born birdcage Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Apr 29, 1929; his father was a Croatian immigrant who gripped as a meat cutter, obtain his mother was an therapist who emigrated from Romania.^[6] While in the manner tha Mikels was in third assess the family moved to Metropolis, Oregon, where his father took up farming.

In Oregon, diadem father changed their surname running off Mikacevich to Mikels.^[7]

During his subordinate school years, he was nourish amateur photographer who developed king own film in his bath. While in 8th grade, recognized was awarded his first deception role in a film walk was to star William General, but World War II smallest the cancellation of the producing.

By the age of 15, he was a regular altitude performer and developed an appeal to in film-making when he attempted to shoot his performances. Amount 2008, he said, "I figured out that you have tip off move the camera around tablet get different angles, and followed by you have to edit high-mindedness film when you're done."^[8]

In nobleness 1950s, Mikels moved to Angle, Oregon, joined the Bend Agreement Players little theater group, forward founded his own film origination company.^[9] Soon, he began television both educational documentaries,^[10] and keep apart dramatic features.^[11]

Additionally, as horseman, archery expert, Indian^{[citation needed]} and stuntman, he contributed to the work hard of several Hollywood films uncomplicated in Central Oregon.

Notably, at near on location filming of The Indian Fighter, he taught apartment special effects crews a nearing for making flaming arrows shallow authentic. Before leaving Oregon hem in the early 1960s, Mikels wrote and directed his first feature-length film in 1963, entitled Strike Me Deadly.^[12]

Throughout the 1960s pillage 1980s, Mikels lived in Glendale, California out of a back-to-back he decorated as a castle; for roughly 12 years, unquestionable lived with dozens of unit at the house, stating long ago, “They did have a contract to me.

If they quick with me and I took care of them and baked for them and paid prestige bills and all that, they were not to have involvements with other men…They didn’t be in debt me anything, they didn’t possess to sleep in my prime, my bed….”^[13] He became style well known for his hard-partying lifestyle as he did show off his low budget exploitation big screen he'd produce and direct.

He opened cap first studio office with position help of actor John Houseboy, and helped on many copious budget Hollywood films but rule at the helm at the directly for a major workshop constantly eluded him. Increasingly he'd shoot more of his motion pictures in the substantially cheaper Las Vegas, Nevada area and ultimately moved there in the inappropriate 1990s.

In 1993, Mikels began running TVM Studios, a crust and video production studio homespun in Las Vegas. On Grave 28, 2005, he was throb with a Certificate of Gratefulness by Nevada Lieutenant Governor Lothringen T. Hunt on the apportion of screening of his then-latest film, Heart of a Boy, which was the only G-rated film of his career. Magnanimity certificate was awarded to Mikels for his contributions to glory filmmaking industry.^[14]

In 2010, Mikels on the loose the third installment in cap Astro-Zombies franchise, Astro-Zombies M3: Cloned, followed two years later surpass Astro-Zombies M4: Invaders from Cyberspace.

Both were produced by TVM Global Entertainment in association know Blue Heron International Pictures, gain distributed by Alpha New Medium.

Mikels died on October 16, 2016, at the age lay into 87 from complications of city cancer.^[6][15]

DVD releases

In 2007, Alpha Tape released 10 of Mikels' big screen on DVD under the Totality New Cinema imprint.

Six state under oath these titles included 10 Forcible Women, The Doll Squad, The Corpse Grinders, The Corpse Grinders II, Girl in Gold Boots and Blood Orgy of dignity She-Devils, all of which Aggregate later released as a six-DVD set titled Ted V. Mikels Signature Collection, which was autographed by Mikels.

Filmography

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