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Aug 9, 2014 · TEL AVIV (AP) — Menahem Golan, a veteran Israeli filmmaker who built an empire on the back of brawny men beating others senseless across a host of 1980s action films, has died in Tel Aviv.
Menahem Golan was an Israeli producer-director. Golan was born to Polish immigrants Noah Globus and Deborah (née Godman) on May 31, 1929, in Tiberias, Israel, Golan served as an air force pilot in the 1948 War of Independence and, at 19, changed his surname in honor of the Golan Heights. Following his military service, he went to London to ...
Aug 8, 2014 · The cinephile and prolific Israeli filmmaker who led Cannon Films with his cousin and produced a Death Wish sequel and The Delta Force has died. He was 85.
K 3. May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014. Superhero movies are all the rage nowadays (At least they were until recently? It seems people are more or less over them now?), but that wasn't always the case. Israeli producer Menahem Golan tried to get a Spider-Man movie off the ground for a large chunk of the 1980s. (Dolph Lundgren as the Green Goblin?
Menahem Golan (born 31 October, 1929 - died 8 August, 2014) was an Israeli director and producer. He has produced movies for such stars as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, … more. More details at TMDb. Remove Ads.
Aug 9, 2014 · Golan was born Menahem Globus in Tiberias to Polish immigrants in 1929. He served in the Israel Air Force during the War of Independence, and changed his name to Golan. After the war, he studied ...
The Israeli film producers Menahem Golan—a patriot who changed his name after the taking of the Golan Heights and directed Operation Thunderbolt about the Entebbe rescue—and Yoram Globus are cousins who bought the Cannon Group, a floundering film company, in 1979 for a mere $350,000, soon turning it into Hollywood's most prosperous independent film company, with revenues reaching $150 million in 1986. Cannon achieved this meteoric ascent by making exploitation films cheaply and quickly ...
