Alan Smithee
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The Directors Guild of America introduced the pseudonym Alan Smithee in 1968 as a way for directors who could demonstrate loss of creative control to disown a project without violating guild rules. Its first application appeared on the 1969 western Death of a Gunfighter, where both Robert Totten and Don Siegel agreed that neither could claim artistic responsibility, and the name was later applied…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
