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Film producer

Late German producer Bernd Eichinger is said to have worked 15 years on convincing novelist Patrick Süskind just to agree to a film adaptation of his book Perfume.

Leah Cevoli

Leah Cevoli (born Leah Ann Cevoli) is an American film and television actor, host, and producer.

NTR National Award

NTR National Film Award is an award instituted by the state of Andhra Pradesh in the honour of an Indian Film Actor, director, producer, and a politician N.T. Rama Rao who also served as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

PAGE International Screenwriting Awards

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards were founded in 2003 by an alliance of Hollywood producers, agents, and development executives to recognize up and coming screenwriters from around the world.

Raw Nerve Short Film Initiative

The Raw Nerve Short Film Initiative is a joint venture between Screen Development Australia (SDA) and Screen Australia (formerly the Australian Film Commission (AFC)) that awards Australian filmmakers sponsorship to encourage film production.


Ajit Ravi

Ajit Ravi (born Ajit Ravi on 30 May 1976 in Kochi, Kerala) is an Indian film actor, director, and producer known for his work in Malayalam cinema.

Alfred Gelder

One of the firm’s most famous clients for its revolutionary roller mill was Joseph Rank who, like Gelder, was a noted Methodist and Gelder also did architectural work for Joseph Rank’s son, the industrialist and film producer, J Arthur Rank.

Ali MacGraw

Their only child, son Josh Evans, was born on January 16, 1971, and their grandson Jackson was born in December 2010 to Josh and his wife, singer Roxy Saint.

Ally Hilfiger

Alexandria Susan "Ally" Hilfiger (born February 26, 1985) is an American heiress, socialite, model, stylist, film and television producer and former reality show star.

Amir Bar-Lev

Amir Bar-Lev (born in 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer from Berkeley, California.

Arabella Field

Arabella Field (born February 5, 1970) is an American actress and film producer known for her roles in films such as Dante's Peak, Feeling Minnesota, Godzilla, National Treasure, Paper Man and as Melinda Bitterman in the animated television version of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott's daily comic strip Baby Blues.

ArchEnemies

Screenwriter Patrick O'Neill (Knight and Day), was hired to write the script; Raimi will act as producer along with Mike Richardson and Josh Donen.

Arrive Alive

Arrive Alive is the title of an unfinished comedy film starring Willem Dafoe and Joan Cusack, directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and produced by Art Linson.

Asiris Nuna

Produced by Aleksei Kuznetsov and Yevgeni Popov.

Bizarre Inc

Bizarre Inc were a house/dance-pop band from Stafford, England, that formed in 1989 as a duo of English DJs Dean Meredith and Mark "Aaron" Archer (not to be confused with the film producer of same name).

Blake Neely

He has frequently collaborated with writer/director/producer Greg Berlanti, including Everwood, Jack & Bobby, Brothers & Sisters, Eli Stone, Dirty Sexy Money, Political Animals and currently Arrow.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

A film is to be made of the book, written and directed by Peter Sarsgaard, and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

Brian J. Terwilliger

Brian J. Terwilliger is a motion picture producer/director who is most noted for the 2005 high-definition documentary, One Six Right, which has received acclaim and press for pioneering independent film distribution and high-definition filmmaking.

ClickStar

ClickStar was a broadband movie distribution company founded by actor Morgan Freeman and film producer Lori McCreary of Revelations Entertainment.

Daniel Kellison

Daniel Kellison (born June 28, 1964) is an American television/film producer and co-founder of Jackhole Productions, an entertainment group formed with partners Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla.

Giddy Up a Ding Dong

The song was written in 1953 by Freddie Bell and his friend Pep Lattanzi, but was not recorded until three years later after the group had signed to Mercury, and were spotted by film producer Sam Katzman.

Hsu Li Kong

Hsu Li Kong (徐立功, Pinyin: Xú Lìgōng; born 1943) is a film producer most famous for co-producing the successful wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, a BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language as well as an Independent Spirit Award for Best Film.

Ice La Fox

In 2012, Ice appeared in another multi-AVN award-nominated crossover adult movie, called Rack City: The XXX Movie, which was produced, co-directed by and co-starred (in a non-sex role) with rapper Tyga and based on a twice turned platinum song by the rapper.

Jake Speed

Jake Speed is a 1986 action/comedy film directed by Andrew Lane, produced by Lane, Wayne Crawford, and William Fay, written by Lane and Crawford, and starring Crawford in the title role.

Joe Medjuck

Joseph Medjuck (born February 17, 1943) is a Canadian-born film producer in Hollywood.

Julius the Cat

Julius' similarity to Felix the Cat, who was created in 1919 by Otto Messmer for Pat Sullivan's studio, was not accidental, but due to Margaret Winkler urging the reluctant Disney to copy Felix.

Justin Reardon

Justin Reardon is a film writer, director, producer and editor.

Leonard B. Stern

Leonard Bernard Stern (December 23, 1923 – June 7, 2011) was an American screenwriter, film and television producer, director, and one of the creators, with Roger Price, of the classic word game Mad Libs.

Lisa Scafuro

Lisa Scafuro (born Lisa Ann Scafuro); is an American director and producer of documentary films, as well as a published writer.

Lotas Productions

Lotas Productions, Inc was founded by the New York film producer John Lotas in 1982.

Lucas Demare

Lucas Demare (July 14, 1910 - September 6, 1981) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer prominent in the Cinema of Argentina in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way

He is contacted by his acting agent, Barry, about a potential role in a Richard Gere/Renée Zellweger romantic comedy entitled Let's Make Love, written by Kevin Jarre, directed by Mike Nichols and produced by Robert Evans.

Martin Fong

Martin Fong is a film producer, director, cinematographer, stylist, actor, celebrity photographer, and is notable as one of the first major American tap dancers of Chinese descent to dance on the Las Vegas strip.

Olaf Dalsgaard-Olsen

Olaf Dalsgaard-Olsen is a Danish film producer who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1956 for his film Qivitoq.

Pablo José Meza

Pablo José Meza is an Argentine film producer, director, and screenplay writer.

Patrick Read Johnson

Patrick Read Johnson (born May 7, 1962) is an American film director, producer, and writer from Wadsworth, Illinois, best known for his directorial work on the films Spaced Invaders, Angus, Baby's Day Out, The Genesis Code and 5-25-77.

Producers Guild of America Awards 1994

The 6th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, given in the The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA on 8 March 1995, honored the best film and television producers of 1994.

Reginald Barker

At the company's studio/ranch in California, he worked under film producer and screenwriter Thomas H. Ince.

Ritesh Sidhwani

Ritesh Sidhwani (born 1973) is a Bollywood film producer, who founded a film production house under the banner of Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Along with long-time friend Farhan Akhtar, he brought to the audience Dil Chahta Hai, his first film under his banner.

Roger Scholes

During the 80’s he worked with his writer/film producer partner, Katherine Scholes, on a number of documentaries before writing and directing his first feature film The Tale of Ruby Rose.

Seven Thieves

Directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Sydney Boehm, it was adapted for the screen by Sydney Boehm, based on the novel The Lions At The Kill by Max Catto.

Steven Paul

Steven Paul (born May 16, 1959) is an American film producer and manager for Jon Voight, Gene Wilder, Michael Cimino, and Bob Clark (before Clark's death in 2007).

Superior Software

Major software developers Peter Johnson, Tim Tyler, Martin Edmondson, Nicholas Chamberlain, Kevin Edwards, David Hoskins, Matthew Atkinson, Chris Roberts, Tony Oakden, Peter Scott, Gary Partis, Peter Irvin, Jeremy Smith, David Braben, Ian Bell, Geoff Crammond, Jonathan Griffiths and Nick Pelling have all produced software published by Superior, sometimes released under the joint Superior Software / Acornsoft brandname.

Swargachitra Appachan

Pinakkatt D Abraham, known as Swargachitra Appachan is an Indian film producer, distributor and entrepreneur.

The Best of Everything

In 1959, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name released by Twentieth Century Fox directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Diane Baker, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Robert Evans, Brian Aherne and Joan Crawford.

The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep (1956) is an American black-and-white horror film, scripted by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams developed for producers Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, who had a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists.

The Secret Magdalene

Writer and film director Nancy Savoca, and her husband, film producer Rich Guay, bought the film rights of the Eio edition.

Tom Gilroy

He has written, directed and produced two award winning films—the short Touch Base (IFC/BRAVO) and the critically acclaimed feature Spring Forward (IFC/MGM) starring Liev Schreiber, Ned Beatty, and Campbell Scott, which won a Toronto International Film Festival Discovery Award.

Vic Manni

Victor Manni was hired by film producer Don Simpson as a bodyguard in the 1980s after he was threatened by the Mafia.

Victor Hugo Halperin

Victor Hugo Halperin (August 24, 1895, Chicago, Illinois – May 17, 1983, Bentonville, Arkansas) was an American stage actor, stage director, film director, producer, and writer.


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Adrian Hanauer

Following the MLS All Star game in July 2007, Hanauer was introduced to Hollywood executive, director, and film producer Joe Roth by MLS director Don Garber.

America First Committee

Other celebrities supporting America First were novelist Sinclair Lewis, poet E. E. Cummings, Washington socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth, film producer Walt Disney, and actress Lillian Gish.

Amjad Jaimoukha

The Centre is the brainchild of the famous Circassian writer and film producer and director Mohydeen Quandour.

Andrew Harris

Andy Harries (born 1954), British television and film producer

Auldbrass Plantation

It was purchased in 1986 by film producer Joel Silver after Donna Butler, a FLW real estate appraiser, convinced him to restore it.

Cannonball Run 2001

In 2005, Yates teamed up with a Cannonball driver and film producer J Sanchez to produce a more authentic reality series called Cannonball: This Is Reality to run alongside the actual One Lap of America race.

Carole Hyatt

When Smart People Fail was co-written with film producer Linda Gottlieb and was originally published in 1987.

Chief Phil Lane Jr.

Lane is an award winning author and film producer with film credits including the National Public Television series "Images of Indians" with the late Will Sampson, "Walking With Grandfather", and "The Honor of All: The Story of Alkali Lake".

Collective for Living Cinema

Many people affiliated with the Collective for Living Cinema were or have gone on to be quite influential in media, such the late Alf Bold, the former programmer of the Arsenal Kino in Berlin, Judith Shulevitz, the columnist for the New York Times and Slate, and John Sloss, the attorney and film producer who has produced more than 40 films, including Far From Heaven, Before Sunset, Personal Velocity, and The Fog of War.

Constance Dowling

In 1955, Dowling married film producer Ivan Tors, with whom she had three sons: Steven, David, and Peter Tors, as well as a foster child, Alfred Ndwego of Kenya.

Dan Carlin

Carlin is the son of Academy Award nominated actress Lynn Carlin and film producer Ed Carlin.

Doug Lefler

Doug Lefler (born California) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and storyboard artist, best known as director of the Dragonheart fantasy adventure film sequel, Dragonheart: A New Beginning, and recently The Last Legion.

Frank Baum

Frank Joslyn Baum (1883–1958), American lawyer, soldier, writer, and film producer; son of the author L. Frank Baum

Gail Mutrux

Gail Mutrux (born October 2, 1945) is an American film producer, best known for her films Donnie Brasco, Nurse Betty, and Kinsey.

Hoërskool Voortrekker

Jamie Uys (30 May 1921 – 29 January 1996) Afrikaans and International Film producer/director

I'd Love You to Want Me

Teddy Robin (泰迪羅賓), Hong Kong singer/artist/film producer, on his 1971 LP album Melody Chain with Fontana Records.

John Clement

Jack Clement (born 1931), American singer/songwriter and record/film producer

John Knatchbull

John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne (1924–2005), British peer, television producer and Academy-award nominated film producer

K Club

Following a succession of different owners, including film producer Kevin McClory, property developer Patrick Gallagher and property magnate Alan Ferguson, the house was purchased in 1988 by the Jefferson Smurfit Group and transformed into the K Club, which opened three years later.

Kajal Nishad

She is married into Bhojpuri film producer Sanjay Nishad, who is from the Bhauapaar village in Gorakhpur district.

Katrina Bayonas

Katrina Bayonas is an actors' agent, film producer and casting director who is best known for discovering Penélope Cruz and managing her career.

Kim Tai-chung

In June 1985, Chinese film producer Ng See-yuen was looking for an actor to play the ghost of Bruce Lee in 1986 film No Retreat, No Surrender in his American debut and final film, which marked the film debut of Belgian martial artist actor Jean-Claude Van Damme as Ivan Kraschinsky.

Lara Breay

Lara Breay is a feature film producer whose credits include "Tropic Thunder", "Blades of Glory" and "Megamind" which stars Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell and Tina Fey and was released in November 2010.

Lene Børglum

Lene Børglum (born 1961) is a Danish film producer who has worked on films in genres including experimental shorts, hardcore porn videos and theatrical feature films such as Lars von Trier's Golden Palm-nominated Dogville.

Leopold Engleitner

In the years after the war, Leopold Engleitner continued to face isolation and intolerance, and only after the author and film producer Bernhard Rammerstorfer documented his life in 1999 in the book and documentary film Nein statt Ja und Amen, did the larger public become aware of him.

Liam Waite

Born Liam Owen East took the last name 'Waite' from film producer and actor, Ralph Waite, his stepfather.

Martin S. Zied

--- Don't mess with this line! --->Martin S. (Marty) Zied (Born November 30, 1951) is a six-time Emmy Award winning documentary television and film producer, director, and writer.

Max E. Youngstein

Max E. Youngstein (March 21, 1913, New York City  – July 8, 1997) was an American film producer who worked for United Artists, formed United Artists Music and United Artists Records then became an independent film producer.

McElhinney

Andrew Repasky McElhinney (born 1979), American film producer born in Philadelphia

Mercy Murugi

Mercy Murugi is a noted Kenyan film producer and production manager who has worked on a number of local and international projects including Worse Than War, Stranded with Cash Peters, Kibera Kid.

Mr Endowed

The video is produced by BAFTA nominated film producer, Luti Fagbenle of Luti Media.

Neha Oberoi

Neha is the daughter of film producer Dharam Oberoi and niece of director Sanjay Gupta.

Nightbreed of Macabria

The album was highly influenced by the works of American film producer Tim Burton.

Nikolay Suslov

Since 1998 he is a film producer and CEO/owner of Svarog Films company.

Paula Malai Ali

In 2002, Paula married the Malaysian film producer Tunku Azudinshah Tunku Anuar (also known as "Kudin") – a member of the Kedah Royal Family and nephew of the Sultan of Kedah.

Peter Douglas

Peter Vincent Douglas (born November 23, 1955) is an American television and film producer, a son of actor Kirk Douglas and his second wife, German American producer Anne Buydens.

Phyllis McDonagh

Phyllis Glory McDonagh (1900–1978), was an Australian film producer and production designer, who often worked in collaboration with her sisters Paulette and Isabella.

Relyea

Robert Relyea (1930–2013), American film producer and executive

Richard Switzer

Arguably the youngest film producer in history, his first two films are due for a 2014 release, A Fatal Obsession and Buddy Hutchins, featuring talent such as Jamie Kennedy, Eric Roberts, Tracy Nelson, and Sally Kirkland.

Rick Leed

Rick Leed is an American television and film producer best known as the creator and executive producer of Dr. 90210 series, which premiered in 2004 and ran for six seasons on E!.

Roy Skeggs

Roy Skeggs is a former film producer for Hammer Films who is credited along with Brian Lawrence for revitalising the film company following receivership in 1979.

Rydal Penrhos

Duncan Kenworthy OBE – Film producer, best known for producing films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually attended Rydal School

Scotty Atkins

Scotty Atkins is an American film producer who is known for Beneath the Blue (2010) starring Paul Wesley, Eye of the Dolphin (2006) starring Carly Schroeder and Jane Lynch, and Vlad (2003) starring Billy Zane.

Sean Michael Becker

Sean Michael Becker (born February 17, 1981) is an American film director, film producer and editor who is best known for directing Felicia Day's web series, The Guild.

Sedgwick, Maine

Stan Waterman, Emmy-winning cinematographer and underwater-film producer

Sighvatsson

Sigurjón Sighvatsson (born 1952), veteran Icelandic film producer and businessman, born in Reykjavík

St Catherine's Court

After her divorce from Flynn and marriage to American film producer James Keach, Seymour rented the manor as a film set, recording studio and latterly country house estate/hotel for corporate events and weddings.

Stuart Cloete

Film producer Albert R. Broccoli attempted to film Rags of Glory in the mid-1960s with David Lean directing, but Lean subsequently - despite his initial interest in the book which he called "very good in an awful sort of way" and its subject matter - rebuffed the offer.

Tammareddy

Tammareddy Krishna Murthy is Telugu film producer and winner of the prestigious Raghupathi Venkaiah Award.

Tony Scotti

Anthony Joseph "Tony" Scotti (born December 22, 1939) is an American actor, television and film producer, and co-founder of Scotti Brothers Records.