The cult filmmaker’s credits also included The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind.
Director Monte Hellman died Tuesday at the age of 91.
The filmmaker’s passing was confirmed toThe Hollywood Reporterby his daughter Melissa Hellman.
Monte Hellman made his directorial debut with the horror film ‘Beast from Haunted Cave’ (1959).Lionel FLUSIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
The director died at Eisenhower Health hospital in Palm Desert a week after he had fallen in his home.
Hellman was best known for directing the 1971 cult classicTwo-Lane Blacktop.
We literally drove from Los Angeles to North Carolina, shooting along the way.
It was pretty great."
He was also an executive producer on Quentin Tarantino’sReservoir Dogs.
Baby Driverdirector Edgar Wright has paid tribute to Hellman on Twitter.
“RIP Monte Hellman,“Wright wrote.
“They don’t make studio movies like ‘Two-Lane Blacktop’ anymore… or then…”
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