John "Bud" Cardos was a versatile and underrated B-movie Renaissance man born in 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri. He began his lengthy career as a child actor in Hal Roach's "Our Gang" comedies and later worked as an animal wrangler and bird handler on Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. He achieved cult popularity acting in several exploitation films for Al Adamson, and also worked as a stuntman, second unit director, and production manager. Cardos made his directorial debut with the blaxploitation item The Red, White, and Black and went on to direct the horror winner Kingdom of the Spiders, the sci-fi/horror opus The Dark, and the zombie flick Forbidden World. In addition to his film work, Cardos also does Western art.
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