William Castle  (April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Castle was known for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Castle began directing films in the early 1940s, and later television, before moving on to the "gimmick films". Description above from the Wikipedia article William Castle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

KNOWN FOR

Ghost Story
1973
Rosemary's Baby
1968
Man with a Camera
1958
Science Fiction Theatre
1956
The Man Called X
1956
Meet McGraw
1957
House on Haunted Hill
1959
The Day of the Locust
1975
The Lady from Shanghai
1947
Shampoo
1975
The Gun That Won the West
1955
Homicidal
1961

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
27
Directing
61
Writing
5
Producing
23
2011
Larger Than Life: The Making of "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story"
as Self (archive)
2007
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
as Self (archive)
2002
Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Psychette: William Castle and "Homicidal"
as Self (archive)
2002
Taking the Punishment Poll
as Self (archive)
1999
Scream For Your Lives: William Castle and 'The Tingler'
as Self (archive)
1997
Hollywood Rated 'R'
as Self (archive footage)
1975
Shampoo
as Sid Roth
1975
The Day of the Locust
as Director
1974
Shanks
as Grocer
1974
The Sex Symbol
as Jack P. Harper
1973
Ghost Story
as J.B. Filmore
1968
Rosemary's Baby
as Phone Booth Man (uncredited)
1967
The Spirit Is Willing
as Mr. Hymer
1966
Let's Kill Uncle
as Russell Harrison (in car wreck) (uncredited)
1964
How to Plan a Movie Murder
as Self
1962
Zotz!
as William Castle (uncredited)
1961
Homicidal
as Self, Prologue Host (Uncredited)
1961
Mr. Sardonicus
as Self (uncredited)
1960
13 Ghosts
as William Castle (uncredited)
1959
The Tingler
as Prologue Host (uncredited)
1951
Hollywood Story
as Himself (uncredited)
1950
It's a Small World
as Cop (uncredited)
1944
When Strangers Marry
as Man in Photograph Given to Police (uncredited)
1940
The Lady in Question
as Angry Juror #1 (uncredited)
1940
He Stayed for Breakfast
as Policeman
13 Ghosts: The Magic of Illusion-O
as Self (archive)