Joe Dante
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Place of birth:	Morristown, New Jersey
Gender:	Male
Year of birth:	1946
Year of death:
First appearance:	Piranha

Joe Dante is a director who specializes in comedic horror. Dante is a former protégé of cult movie director Roger Corman. He even cast Corman in a cameo role in his 1981 werewolf film, The Howling. Dante has made cameo appearances himself in a few of his films and has directed two episodes of the "Masters of Horror" television series.

Body of work Edit

Film	Year	Role
Piranha	1978	Director; Actor
The Howling	1981	Director; Editor
Gremlins	1984	Director
Gremlins II: The New Batch	1990	Director; Voice actor
Sleepwalkers	1992	Actor
MOH: Homecoming	2005	Director
MOH: The Screwfly Solution	2006	Director
Killer Cobbler	2015	Director

Notes Edit

• Joe Dante was the host of "She's Alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstin" feature included on disk 2, side B of the Frankenstein Legacy collection DVD.

External Links Edit

• Joe Dante at Wikipedia
• Joe Dante at All Movie Guide
• Joe Dante at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)