What is George A. Romero?
{{Infobox person | image = George A Romero.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Romero at [[Comic Con]], July 2007 | birth_name = George Andrew Romero | birth_date = {{birth date|1940|2|4}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|7|16|1940|2|4}} | death_place = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] | death_cause = [[Lung cancer]] | spouse = Christine Forrest ([[divorce]]d),<br>{{marriage|Suzanne Desrocher|2011|2017|reason=his death}} | occupation = }} '''George Andrew Romero''' (February 4, 1940 &ndash; July 16, 2017) was an [[Americans|American]]-[[Canadians|Canadian]] director, writer, editor and actor. He is known for his [[horror movie]]s with [[zombie]] themes. ==Life and work == Romero was born in the [[Bronx]], [[New York City]] to a [[Cuban-American]] father of [[Spaniards|Spanish]] [[ancestry]] and a [[Lithuanian-American]] mother.<ref>[http://www.genreonline.net/GENRE_ONLINE_Interview_George_Romero.html The GENRE ONLINE.NET Interview - Writer and Director George A. Romero<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://movies.about.com/od/landofthedead/a/landdead011005.htm |title=Movies.about.com article |access-date=2008-11-30 |archive-date=2007-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013174237/http://movies.about.com/od/landofthedead/a/landdead011005.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Romero went to [[Pittsburgh's]] [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. After [[graduate|graduating]] in 1960,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Romero__George.html |title=George Romero<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2008-11-30 |archive-date=2007-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102224243/http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Romero__George.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> he started directing short movies and commercials before moving onto horror movies. He and friends started a directing group called ''Image Ten Productions''