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Katzman worked as an assistant to Norman Taurog and got married on the set of The Diplomats in 1928 at Fox. In October 1927 he signed with comic Joe Russo to make a series of two-reel comedies. Screencraft Pictures. Katzman was a production supervisor at Showmen's Pictures in the early 1930s, and Screencraft Productions in July 1935.
Sam Katzman. Producer: Amateur Crook. New York-born Sam Katzman entered the film industry as a prop boy at age 13, and worked his way up the ladder, learning virtually every facet of film production before becoming a producer himself.
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- Hollywood, California, USA
Sam Katzman. Producer: Amateur Crook. New York-born Sam Katzman entered the film industry as a prop boy at age 13, and worked his way up the ladder, learning virtually every facet of film production before becoming a producer himself. Starting out producing action/adventure serials (where he got the nickname "Jungle Sam"), Katzman's output encompassed virtually every genre imaginable. In the 1930s he turned out Tim McCoy westerns for Puritan and...
- July 7, 1901
- August 4, 1973
Sam Katzman is known as an Producer, Executive Producer, Production Manager, Director, Writer, Production Supervisor, Supervising Producer, Second Unit Director, and Presenter. Some of his work includes Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, It Came from Beneath the Sea, The Giant Claw, The Corpse Vanishes, The Werewolf, Invisible Ghost, Voodoo Man, and Creature with the Atom Brain.
- CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN. Optional Introduction by Kim Newman (8:33) Audio Commentary with Russell Dyball. Sam Katzman: Before & Beyond the Cold War Creatures (73:57)
- THE WEREWOLF. Optional Introduction by Kim Newman (13:55) Audio Commentary with Lee Gambin. Beyond Window Dressing (23:35) Super 8 Version (7:33) Trailer (1:57)
- ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU. Optional Introduction by Kim Newman (7:35) Audio Commentary with Kat Ellinger. Atomic Terror: Genre in Transformation (19:48)
- THE GIANT CLAW. Optional Introduction by Kim Newman (12:27) Audio Commentary with Emma Westwood and Cerise Howard. Family Endangered! (12:51) Super 8 Version (6:29)
Sep 14, 2021 · Sam Katzman: Before and Beyond the Cold War Creatures, a brand-new feature-length illustrated presentation on the life, career and films of Sam Katzman by historian and critic Stephen R. Bissette; Condensed Super 8mm version of Creature with the Atom Brain, produced for home cinema viewing; Theatrical Trailer; Image Gallery
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The ‘50s and ‘60s saw Sam making Jungle Jim, western, sci-fi and teenage musicals for Columbia, juvenile delinquent films for Columbia and AIP, even Elvis Presley musicals at MGM. Katzman had a way of catching the wave of a fad and grinding out a film before it faded away. The legendary “Jungle Sam” Katzman died August 4, 1973, at 72.
