Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
13
Gender
Male
Birthday
December 13, 1960 ( 64 years old )
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Rusty Cundieff
George Arthur "Rusty" Cundieff (born December 13, 1960) is an American film/television director, actor, and writer. His notable credits are as director/writer of and lead actor in the This Is Spinal Tap-like rap satire Fear of a Black Hat, as writer of the second installment to House Party, and as director of the horror anthology Tales from the Hood. He also directed the 1997 film, Sprung. He was also a director for Chappelle's Show and a correspondent on TV Nation. He also directed and starred in a U Can't Touch This parody titled Yes We Can, which focuses on Barack Obama. Cundieff was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Christina and John A. Cundieff, both of whom appeared in Tales from the Hood. He is married to Trina Davis Cundieff with whom he has two children. Cundieff is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans. He also portrayed a fraternity brother (of the fictitious Gamma Phi Gamma) in Spike Lee's School Daze in which actual members of Alpha Phi Alpha were featured. Cundieff is a graduate of the University of Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rusty Cundieff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Fear of a Black Hat
1994-06-03Doing the Hollywood Shuffle
2023-02-28Sprung
1997-05-1457 Seconds
2023-09-29Tales from the Hood 2
2018-07-13In Search of Charlie Chan
2006-06-20Tales from the Hood
1995-05-24Hollywood Shuffle
1987-03-20Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
2019-02-07American Nightmares
2018-10-11