Directing

Richard E. Cunha

Born — Died

1922-03-04 — 2005-09-18

Place of birth

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Richard Earl Cunha (March 4, 1922, Honolulu, Hawaii - September 18, 2005, Oceanside, California) was a Hawaiian born cinematographer and film director. Cunha's father was Albert "Sonny" Cunha, a Hawaiian songwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard E. Cunha, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known for

Frankenstein's Daughter poster
4.6

Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.

Frankenstein's Daughter

1958

Missile to the Moon poster
3.7

Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.

Missile to the Moon

1958

Giant from the Unknown poster
4.4

A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the scientist sets about solving the crimes and discovers the killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador, resurrected by a lightning bolt from his mountain grave.

Giant from the Unknown

1958

Dog Eat Dog! poster
4.9

Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind up on an island in a hotel with an apparently crazed manager and a building full of demented residents.

Dog Eat Dog!

1964

She Demons poster
4.8

A couple wash up on an uncharted island where Nazi experiments are going on.

She Demons

1958

Girl In Room 13 poster
6.0

When American private eye Steve Marshall receives a mysterious summons to the sweltering streets of São Paulo, the mission seems clear-cut: find Louise Dunning, a woman on the run for the murder of her husband. But in the shadows of Brazil, nothing is as it seems. As Marshall closes in on his target, he begins to realize he isn't the one leading the hunt.. he's being steered.

Girl In Room 13

1960

Film credits

Behind the camera

Frankenstein's Daughter poster
4.6

Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.

Frankenstein's Daughter

1958

Missile to the Moon poster
3.7

Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.

Missile to the Moon

1958

Giant from the Unknown poster
4.4

A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the scientist sets about solving the crimes and discovers the killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador, resurrected by a lightning bolt from his mountain grave.

Giant from the Unknown

1958

Dog Eat Dog! poster
4.9

Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind up on an island in a hotel with an apparently crazed manager and a building full of demented residents.

Dog Eat Dog!

1964

She Demons poster
4.8

A couple wash up on an uncharted island where Nazi experiments are going on.

She Demons

1958

She Demons poster
4.8

A couple wash up on an uncharted island where Nazi experiments are going on.

She Demons

1958

Girl In Room 13 poster
6.0

When American private eye Steve Marshall receives a mysterious summons to the sweltering streets of São Paulo, the mission seems clear-cut: find Louise Dunning, a woman on the run for the murder of her husband. But in the shadows of Brazil, nothing is as it seems. As Marshall closes in on his target, he begins to realize he isn't the one leading the hunt.. he's being steered.

Girl In Room 13

1960

Girl In Room 13 poster
6.0

When American private eye Steve Marshall receives a mysterious summons to the sweltering streets of São Paulo, the mission seems clear-cut: find Louise Dunning, a woman on the run for the murder of her husband. But in the shadows of Brazil, nothing is as it seems. As Marshall closes in on his target, he begins to realize he isn't the one leading the hunt.. he's being steered.

Girl In Room 13

1960

No artwork available
NR

Richard E. Cunha discusses his films including FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER and GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN.

Richard E. Cunha: Filmmaker of the Unknown

2021