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Ismail Merchant (born Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman; 25 December 1936 – 25 May 2005) was an Indian film producer.
Ismail Merchant was born on 25 December 1936 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]. He was a producer and director, known for Howards End (1992), A Room with a View (1985) and The Remains of the Day (1993). He died on 25 May 2005 in London, England, UK.
Ismail Merchant was born in Bombay on December 25th, 1936, brother to six sisters. His father, a textile merchant, held for his son and heir all the aspirations typical of a middle-class Muslim in pre-Partition India, sending him to the best schools that money could afford.
May 25, 2019 · Of the duo, Ismail Merchant is considered one of India’s most iconic exports among filmmakers, having worked in the US for over four decades. His biggest success lay in introducing a new lens for the world to look at Indians through cinema, along with his partner Ivory.
May 21, 2021 · The Indian-born producer was responsible for 44 films including Shakespeare-Wallah (1965), Heat and Dust (1983), A Room With a View (1985), Howards End (1992), and Remains of the Day (1993), along...
It is with great sadness that Merchant Ivory Productions announced that Ismail Merchant, our company founder and beloved producer for more than 44 years, passed away May 25, 2005 after a brief illness in a London hospital where he was working on his latest film, The White Countess.
Merchant Ivory is actually a collaboration of three remarkable people from three vastly different cultures: Ismail Merchant, the producer, born in India; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the screenwriter, born in Germany and educated in England; and James Ivory, the director, born in the United States.
May 26, 2005 · Ismail Merchant: In Memory. Roger Ebert May 26, 2005. Tweet. Producer-director Ismail Merchant (right) with Subrata Mitra, the cinematographer who worked with Satyajit Ray, talking at the 1999 Calcutta Film Festival.
Jun 2, 2005 · Ismail Merchant, film producer, died on May 25th, aged 68. FOR a devout Muslim, it was ironic that Ismail Merchant was born on Christmas Day, 1936. Not that religion played any conspicuous...
May 26, 2005 · Film producer Ismail Merchant died Wednesday at age 68. In conjunction with James Ivory, he produced Maurice (1987), A Room With a View (1985), Howards End (1992) and The Remains of the Day...
