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George W. Lucas, Jr.
George W. Lucas, Jr. 1944-, American film director, producer, and writer, b. Modesto, Calif. Although Lucas's first film, THX-1138 (1970), was not successful, his next two, American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars (1977), set the course for filmmaking in the next decade. The first made song sco... Read more
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford 1893-1979, American movie actress, b. Toronto, Ont. In 1909 she began working with D. W. Griffith . Specializing in playing young girls, she was dubbed "America's Sweetheart." Her films include A Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), Pollyanna (1919), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921),... Read more
American Film Institute
American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase recognition and understanding of th... Read more
George Abbott
George Abbott 1887-1995, American theatrical producer, director, and playwright, b. Forestville, N.Y. He began (1913) in the theater as an actor and, during a career that spanned eight decades, was celebrated as a coauthor, director, or producer of more than 100 Broadway plays, including The Fall ... Read more
Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn , 1882-1974, American film producer, b. Warsaw, Poland. Goldwyn arrived in the United States in 1896, and with Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. De Mille he organized the Jesse Lasky Feature Photoplay Company, coproducing The Squaw Man (1913). In 1916 he formed the Goldwyn Pictures Corp... Read more
Joshua Logan
Joshua Logan 1908-88, American theatrical and film director and writer, b. Texarkana, Tex. He directed several successes in New York, including Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) and Annie Get Your Gun (1946). Later he was director, producer, and coauthor of Mr. Roberts (1948), South Pacific (194... Read more
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin , 1922-, French fashion designer. He spent most of his early years working in Paris for such firms as Schiaparelli and Dior . He designed the costumes for Jean Cocteau 's film Beauty and the Beast (1946). At first known as a designer of expensive clothing, he produced his first r... Read more
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett , 1884-1960, American movie director and producer, b. Danville, Que. In 1909 he began working for D. W. Griffith at the Biograph Company, and in 1912 he organized his own Keystone Company. Sennett's films, rarely more than one or two reels long, were slapstick comedies noted for their... Read more
polyethylene
polyethylene , widely used plastic . It is a polymer of ethylene , CH 2 [symbol]CH 2 , having the formula (-CH 2 -CH 2 -) n , and is produced at high pressures and temperatures in the presence of any one of several catalysts , depending on the desired properties for the finished product. Polyet... Read more
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (Henry Warren Beatty) , 1937-, motion picture actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, b. Richmond, Va. An eminently bankable star, the handsome, charismatic, yet oddly elusive leading man made his film debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961). His reputation as a Hollywood Don Ju... Read more

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Film
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...Amir and the writer Wadad Orfy set up the first Arab Film Company in Cairo. Their first film, Layla (1927), made with an Egyptian producer, director, and cast, is the first Egyptian film. By the 1950s the Egyptian film industry was the most...
SIC 2671 Coated and Laminated Packaging Paper and Plastics Film
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...packaging paper and plastics film industry is one of the smallest...and sheets, except foil and film, for flexible packaging uses...packaging paper and plastics film, not specified by kind, represented...Massachusetts was the leading producer, followed by Tennessee, Wisconsin...
Lucas, George
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...experienced his first real film success with American...Coppola serving as a co-producer. American Graffiti...companies to manage his film empire. In 1980 the second film in Lucas's trilogy...Lucas was the executive producer (one who pays for...
Thomas Ince
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the development of the film industry in Hollywood as both a producer and director. He was...picture, but Ince put the producer in charge of the film from inception to final product. He defined the producer's role in both a creative...
Martin Scorsese
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...entered the prestigious Film School at New York...You Murray! won the Producer's Guild Award for best student film in 1964, and he also...Hollywood and met the producer/ director Roger Corman...Bertha, a 1972 gangster film somewhat resembling...
James Ivory
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...successful and lucrative partnership with Indian producer Ismail Merchant, in their independent film company, Merchant Ivory Productions. Seemingly...India, where he teamed up with the Indian producer, Ismail Merchant, and the German-born writer...
Streisand, Barbra
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...for this role. Director and producer Streisand starred in For Pete...three Golden Globe Awards. The film was one of the highest moneymakers...not only the star, executive producer, and cosongwriter, but also...Jewish religious education. The film earned more than $35 million...
SIC 7829 Services Allied to Motion Picture Distribution
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...production company or distributor. These film libraries, however, were not independent...whose library contained the desired film. For films dating back several...was not necessarily the original producer, since film studios and distribution companies...
Movie Rating
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...believe that the rating for their film is too restrictive, they may...laypersons. The board screens the film, consults with the original...listens to the complaints of the producer or director before voting...system has the support of major film studios, theater own
Roberto Rossellini
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Aperta reignited the lagging Italian film industry. The film was not popular in Italy at the...Roma, Citta Aperta, Hollywood producer David O. Selznick offered Rossellini...was Paisa ( Paisan; 1946), a film which many critics believe to be...

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Hitler: Ein Film aus Deutschland
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers HITLER: EIN FILM AUS DEUTSCHLAND (Hitler: A Film From Germany; Our Hitler) West...rgen Syberberg Production: TMS Film (Munich), WDR (Cologne), BBC...minutes. Released 1977. Executive producer: Harry Nap; screenplay: Hans...
Film D'Amore e D'Anarchia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers FILM D'AMORE E D'ANARCHIA (Film of Love and Anarchy) Italy, 1973...Released 1973. Filmed in Italy. Producer: Romano Cardarelli; screenplay...Bonaiuto; Mario Scaccia. Award: Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor (Giannini...
Zanuck, Richard D.
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2014; American Film, October 1975. Films...Perhaps because the producer's contribution to the film that actually screens...was brought up in the film business, where his...later an independent producer, a man who very forcefully...
Elfman, Danny
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Good Will Hunting (+ score producer); Flubber ; Men in Black...A Civil Action (+ score producer) 1999 Anywhere But Here...1998 Pyscho (music adaptor, producer, and supervisor) Publications...Listening to Movies: The Film Lover's Guide to Film Music...
Zimmer, Hans
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Greenspan and Woodhead) (music producer); With Friends Like These. . . (music producer); Antz (Darnell, Gutterman...others) (executive music producer) Publications On ZIMMER...Listening to Movies: The Film Lover's Guide to Film Music...
Vachon, Christine
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...VACHON, Christine Producer. Nationality...Career: Worked odd film jobs to learn the...New York Women in Film and Television, 1996; Producer Award, Gotham...is the kind of producer who will lay down...train" to get a film made. She is a...
Justin, George
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2013;1953; instructor, New Institute for Film, Brooklyn, New York, 1951–1955...manager, production supervisor, associate producer, and producer on television series and films/film pilots for television, including The Doctors...
Foreman, Carl
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1941—first film as writer, Spooks Run...1958—first film as producer, The Key ; 1963...Producer/Executive Producer: 1959 The Mouse That...Noon (screenplay), in Film Scripts One, edited...
Harrison, Joan
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2014;first film as producer, Phantom Lady...Ambler.) Her first film away from Hitchcock...writer and associate producer, was Dark Waters...first feature as full producer was the much respected low-budget film noir Phantom Lady...
Houseman, John
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...programmer, Office of War Information; 1943–46—film producer, Paramount; 1947—founded Hollywood Film Society; 1947–49—producer at RKO; 1949—founded Media Productions; 1950...

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Bringing up Indie. (film producer Andrea Sperling)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Leonard's equation of a film producer with a petty criminal...Again) have posited the film producer as a modern-day Mephistopheles...features. PB: With one film you went from being Gregg's student to being his producer? AS: In 1990, right...
Film Producer Stephen Ujlaki Named Chair of San Francisco State University Cinema Department.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 9/10/2001; 700+ words ; ...named one of the nation's top film schools last year by Entertainment...Department as similar to being producer of a film," said Ujlaki (pronounced YOU...connections and experience as a film producer bring forth an exciting new era...
Film producer Nowytski on Ukraine during World War II
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 5/28/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...The 05-28-2000 Film producer Nowytski on Ukraine...World War II," a film sponsored by the...Its director and producer, Slavko Nowytski...have a Ukrainian producer, Volodymyr Kmetyk...distribution of the film in Ukraine - and...
Irwin Winkler: A Film Producer's Producer
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday; 12/8/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Irwin Winkler: A Film Producer's Producer Host...But a really a producer that really produces...with the idea for a film or buy a book or...he will watch the film come out, and everybody...say, what did the producer do? (Soundbite...
Janet Pierson Named SXSW Film Producer.
PR Newswire; 4/14/2008; 612 words ; ...has accepted the position as Producer of the SXSW Film Festival and Conference...world. Having Pierson as SXSW Film's Producer will be an enormous benefit...Dentler, who has acted as SXSW Film Festival Producer since 2004 will be moving...
British cinematic invasion; Birmingham film producer Roger Shannon reports from Dinard, the French festival devoted to British films.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 10/14/2005; 700+ words ; ...I was back as executive producer of the black comedy Festival, the debut film of director Annie Griffin...raised financing for UK film. CAPTION(S): Raquel...Dinard. Right, Birmingham film producer Roger Shannon Charles Dance
Suit against film producer insured under E&O policy. (errors and omissions)
Magazine article from: Business Insurance; 3/9/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...lawsuit filed against the producer of the Academy Award-nominated film "The Full Monty...management procedures for film productions. To minimize...coverage is written for a film, however, there is...Burbank, Calif. The producer's attorneys then...
Film producer champions outsider titles.
Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH); 1/15/2006; 700+ words ; ...terms, a director makes a movie, but a producer gets the movie made. In independent film, a producer will nurture a filmmaker's concept...office about the wideranging duties of a film producer. Q: You're the first producer to be...
Film producer saw plenty in opener
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 5/28/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Ledger BROCKTON No wonder film producer Julie Campbell is anxious...Shaw's Center with the film- making team (Cambpell, Associate Producer Myra Berman, director Peter...Capitales. The independent film "is being written right...
Simmons Lathan Media Group Taps Top Urban Film Producer Paul Garnes Head of Production.
PR Newswire; 5/17/2004; 700+ words ; ...hiring of top young urban film producer Paul Garnes, as Head of...the Vivica Fox feature film "Beauty Shop," and Line Producer for the indie feature...came in 1999 as Associate Producer of the HBO original film "Dancing in September...