Director.

Herschell Gordon Lewis is the director who created the ‘Slasher movie’ concept, he dramatically changed the Horror genre and made audiences feel fear like no other. He has directed films such as ‘Prom night’ and ‘Friday the 13th’ these were major films and earned the box office a lot of money. Here are a few of the films he has directed:

The Gore-Gore Girls (aka Blood Orgy) (1975) [Producer and Director]
Year of the Yahoo! (1974) [Producer and Director]
This Stuff’ll Kill Ya! (1973) [Director]
Miss Nymphet's Zap-ln (1972) [Director]
Stick It in Your Ear (1971) [Producer] [aka Vortex]
The Wizard of Gore (1971) [Director, Writer]
The Ecstasies of Women (1970) [Director under pseudonym]
Linda and Abilene (1969) [Director under pseudonym]
How to Make a Doll (1968) [Director]
Just for the Hell of It (1968) [Director]
The Psychic (1968) [Cinematographer]
The Girl, the Body, and the Pill (1967) [Director]
The Gruesome Twosome (1967) [Director]
The Magic Land. of Mother Goose (1967) [Director and Cinematographer]
Something Weird (1967) [Director]
Suburban Roulette (1967) [Producer and Director, Co-writer]
A Taste of Blood (1967) [Producer and Director]
Alley Tramp (1966) [Director under pseudonym]
Jimmy, the Boy Wonder (1966) [Director]
Color Me Blood Red (1965) [Director, Writer. Cinematographer]
Monster a Go-Go (1965) [Director, Producer as Sheldon Seymour]
Sin, Suffer, Repent (1965) [Director, Cinematographer]
She-Devils on Wheels (1968) [Producer and Director]
Blast-Off Girls (1967) [Producer and Director, Writer]
Boin-n-g (1963) [Director]
Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963) [Director under pseudonym]
Scum of the Earth (1963) [Director] Daughter of the Sun (1962) [Director under pseudonym, Writer]
Nature’s Playmates (1962) [Director under pseudonym]
The Adventures Of Lucky Pierre (1962) [Director under pseudonym, Writer]
Living Venus (1961) [Producer and Director]
The Prime Time (1960) [Producer]
2,000 Maniacs! (1964) [Director, Writer, Wrote musical score]
Moonshine Mountain (1964) [Procucer and Director, Cinematographer]
Bell, Bare, and Beautiful (1963) [Director under pseudonym]
Blood Feast (1963) [Director, Cinematographer, Composer]
Blood Feast 2 (2002) [Director]
Grim Fairy Tales (March 2009) (Director) "In Production"

(http://herschellgordonlewis.com/films.htm)

He is head of Lewis enterprise and is arguably the best known director and business man within the United States of America. As well as being well known for being a director he is also recognized for the many books he has written and published, such as, Selling on the net and the worlds greatest direct mail sales letters.