Lewis J. Rachmil

American film producer

Lewis J. Rachmil
Born(1908-07-03)July 3, 1908
New York City
DiedFebruary 19, 1984(1984-02-19) (aged 75)
Beverly Hills, California
Occupation(s)Film producer, art director
Years active1934–1984

Lewis J. Rachmil (July 3, 1908 – February 19, 1984)[citation needed] was an American film producer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Art Direction for the film Our Town.[1] In the mid and late 1940s, he produced several of William Boyd's popular Hopalong Cassidy B-Westerns.[citation needed] In 1959, he was producer of Men into Space,[citation needed] a one-season CBS TV series that tried to give a serious science fiction preview of where the then-new American space program seemed to be heading. During the 1960s he produced several films in England for Mirisch Films.[citation needed]

He was born in New York City and died in Beverly Hills, California.[citation needed]

Selected filmography

  • Carnival Lady (1933)
  • Our Town (1940)
  • Hunt the Man Down (1950)
  • Gun Fury (1953)
  • The Violent Men (1955)
  • Over-Exposed (1956)
  • Reprisal! (1956)
  • Gidget (1959)
  • Kings of the Sun (1963)
  • 633 Squadron (1964)
  • Inspector Clouseau (1968)
  • Footloose (1984)

References

  1. ^ "The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 12, 2011.

External links

  • Lewis J. Rachmil at IMDb
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