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George A. Romero
1940–2017
A fiercely independent filmmaker who changed horror forever, he turned low-budget ingenuity into stories that still feel sharp, political, and unsettling. Best known for Night of the Living Dead and the films that followed it, he helped define the modern zombie in popular culture.
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Night of the living dead
by George A. Romero
About the author
Born in the Bronx on February 4, 1940, George A. Romero became an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer, editor, and actor whose work left a huge mark on horror. He studied at Carnegie Mellon University and began making commercials and industrial films in Pittsburgh before breaking through with the independently made Night of the Living Dead in 1968.
That film, and later entries including Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, made him one of the key creative voices in modern horror. His movies were known not just for scares and gore, but for the way they folded in social tension, satire, and human conflict, which helped give zombie stories a new seriousness and reach.
Romero continued directing and writing across film, television, and comics for decades, and he remained a beloved figure among horror fans and filmmakers alike. He died in Toronto on July 16, 2017, but his influence on the genre—and on the idea of the zombie itself—has endured far beyond his lifetime.