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British film producer and distributor
- Film producer Michael Klinger (1 November 1920 – 15 September 1989) was a British film producer and distributor. After Tony Tenser, then a publicist, became his business partner, the two men created the Compton cinema chain and distribution company and financed Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-sac (1966) both directed by Roman Polanski.
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Michael Klinger (1 November 1920 – 15 September 1989) was a British film producer and distributor. After Tony Tenser , then a publicist, became his business partner, the two men created the Compton cinema chain and distribution company and financed Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-sac (1966) both directed by Roman Polanski .
Michael Klinger. Producer: Get Carter. Michael Klinger was born just a short distance from London's Wardour Street, the centre of Britain's film industry in which he would later become well known. He trained for and became a structural engineer for ten years.
- Producer, Additional Crew, Writer
- November 1, 1920
- Michael Klinger
- September 15, 1989
Michael Klinger. Producer: Get Carter. Michael Klinger was born just a short distance from London's Wardour Street, the centre of Britain's film industry in which he would later become well known. He trained for and became a structural engineer for ten years.
- November 1, 1920
- September 15, 1989
Rotund, cigar-chomping and ebullient - Sheridan Morley described him in 1975 as resembling “nothing so much as a flamboyant character actor doing impressions of Louis B. Meyer” - Michael Klinger might seem a caricature of the producer, but this image belied a quicksilver intelligence, photographic memory and a cultivated mind.
Nov 3, 2018 · Michael was a trailblazer in his field of independent film producing, resulting in early collaborations with master director Roman Polanski on ‘Repulsion’ and ‘Cul-de-sac’. He also went on to create one of Britain’s most Iconic films ‘Get Carter’ in 1971, featuring the great Michael Caine.
Aug 11, 2010 · The practice of new film history is here exemplified through a detailed case study of the independent British producer Michael Klinger (active 1961–87) with a specific focus on his unsuccessful attempt to produce a war film, Green Beach, based on a memoir of the Dieppe raid (August 1942).
Producer, Writer. The son of an immigrant Polish tailor, former disc jockey, strip-club manager and film distributor Michael Klinger entered films as co-producer, with Tony Tenser, of such exploitation films as Naked As Nature Intended (d. George Harrison Marks, 1961).
