Paul Bartel
Bartel also directed 11 low-budget movies. In many of them he also acted in or wrote. He started in 1968 with the short The Secret Cinema.  He graduated to features in 1972 with the horror-comedy Private Parts.  He would go on to direct such cult films as Death Race 2000 (1975), Eating Raoul (1982), Lust in the Dust (1985), Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) and Dumb and Dumber (1994).