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Feb 26, 2023 · Published 4:53 PM PDT, February 26, 2023. LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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. He was 101.
The Mirisch Company, the production company he ran with his brother and half-brother, produced films that racked up a whopping 87 Academy Award nominations and 28 Oscars, including back-to-back best-picture wins for The Apartment (1960) and West Side Story (1961), as well as for In the Heat of the Night, the 1967 thriller that brought Mirisch his personal Best Picture win.
Apr 6, 2023 · Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as irresistible talent packages.
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Dec 18, 2023 · Walter Mirisch, who died Feb. 24, was an active member of The UCLA Foundation board of directors for many years. He was 101. In 1989, he received the UCLA Medal, the campus’s highest honor. “The Mirisch Company (and its other entities) is arguably the most important independent film production company of the mid-20th century, especially ...
Walter M. Mirisch was born on November 8, 1921 in New York City; attended City College of New York; BA, University of Wisconsin, 1942; graduated, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1943, following his World War II service, Mirisch began producing films for Monogram Pictures; became executive producer at Allied Artists in 1951; formed an independent production company, Mirisch Company, in 1957 with his brother Marvin and half brother Harold; Mirisch Corporation's list of ...
The Mirisch Company's 1961 release, "West Side Story," also won the Oscar for Best Picture. In 1967, Mirisch, himself, produced the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, "In the Heat of the Night," starring Rod Steiger as a Southern sheriff forced to forge a relationship and take help from a northern African-American police lieutenant (Sidney Poitier).
Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as irresistible talent packages. Whilst they helped make the names of a new ...
