Before turning to directing, Clouse honed visual skills as a CBS still-photographer and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, dispelling later rumors of deafness. His early forays into cinema earned two Academy Award nominations for the short subjects The Cadillac (1962) and The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes (1964), the latter also contending for Cannes’ Palme d’Or and bringing a Golden Globe…
