Russ Carlson
Lars Tobin
Eclair von Ott
Otto Von Lickit
Harry Gordon
Jack Hammer
Helmuth Richler
Kenneth Schwartz
John Stover
Oscar Tripe
Nicholas Berland
Amanda Barton
Warren Evans
Arlo Benson
Martin Jones
Arthur van Deuvel
Joel Devlin
Stephen Steinberg
Jerry Conti
Howard Steinman
Howard Stein
Rick Livermoore
Shaun Costello, Directing
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA | 1944-01-01 | 2023-07-05
Shaun Costello began directing for "loops" (10-minute scenes shown in coin-operated viewers in adult theaters) in NYC in the early 1970s, and soon was directing (and acting in) full porn movies and other grindhouse "roughies" shown in Times Square's 42nd Street adult theaters. Costello took work where he could get it, often working for the Mob, who owned many adult theaters and distribution, and working under different aliases for different theaters so that no one (at the time) knew that he was his own competition. Eventually moving on to a mainstream documentary career, Costello written and directed grindhouse movies - rough and violent and reflecting of their times - have seen a resurgence as the 2010's have seen these movies be remastered and re-released and often seen for the first time in decades. Anyone interested in the history of American porn or grindhouse/exploitation theater of the late 1960s and 1970s will likely have encountered Shaun Costello's work, often unknowingly due to his prolific use of aliases.
