James Nathan “Jim” VanBebber (born November 24, 1964) is an American film director. Born in

Greenville, Ohio Greenville is a city in Darke County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is near Ohio's western edge, about northwest of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton. The population was 12,786 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History Indigenous ...

, VanBebber attended

Wright State University Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio, United States. Originally opened in 1964 as a branch campus of Miami University and Ohio State University, it became an independent institution in 1967 and was named in ...

where he studied cinema. Instead of using a bank loan to pay for a second year of college, he used the money to finance '' Deadbeat at Dawn'', and founded the indie film company Asmodeus Productions with several colleagues. '' The Manson Family'' took more than ten years to complete. A documentary about VanBebber titled ''Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber'' covering his life from 2010 to 2015 was released in 2015.

Filmography

* ''Gator Green'' (2013) * '' The Manson Family'' (1997) * '' Video Collection (1984–1992)'' (1996) (video for "Spasmolytic") * ''Doper'' (1994) * ''My Sweet Satan'' (1994) * ''Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin'' (1994) * ''Kata'' (1990) * '' Deadbeat at Dawn'' (1988)

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* Living people Wright State University alumni American horror film directors 1964 births People from Greenville, Ohio Film directors from Ohio {{US-film-director-1960s-stub