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Movie producer Walter Mirisch created Oscar-winning films such as In the Heat of the Night, The Apartment, and West Side Story. He also helped to establish the Hollywood Badgers, an organization that supports UW alumni in the entertainment industry. During a visit back to campus, then-Chancellor John Wiley MS1965, PhD1968 joked that Mirisch ...
Feb 26, 2023 · Walter Mortimer Mirisch was born in New York City on Nov. 8, 1921. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1942 and a graduate degree in business from Harvard ...
Feb 26, 2023 · Walter Mirisch, the astute and Oscar winning film producer who oversaw such classics as “Some Like It Hot,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” has died of natural causes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Saturday. Mirisch died on Friday in Los Angeles, according to a statement from the academy's CEO Bill Kramer and its president Janet Yang. “Walter was a true visionary, both as a producer and as an industry leader,” they said, noting he had ...
Walter Mirisch, producer of the 1967 Best Picture Oscar winner “In the Heat of the Night” and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died on Friday evening at the ...
Feb 27, 2023 · Walter Mirisch continued to produce theatrical movies into the 1980s. Although the quality and commercial success of his films generally declined, there were still some hits, including Oscar ...
Feb 27, 2023 · Walter Mirisch, the astute and Oscar winning film producer who oversaw such classics as “Some Like It Hot,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” has died of natural causes ...
Feb 26, 2023 · Walter Mirisch was the first person to receive all three of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's highest honors: the 1968 best picture Oscar as producer of “In the Heat of the Night ...
