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Martin Ransohoff

Known For
Production

Known Credits
4

Gender
Male

Birthday
July 7, 1927 (99 years old)

Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Martin Ransohoff

Biography

Martin Ransohoff (born November 30, 1926) is a cinema and television producer, and member of the Ransohoff family.

He graduated from Colgate University in 1949 and is on a list of Distinguished Alumni. He founded the film production company Filmways, Inc. in 1960 and remained with the company until 1972. Filmways started making TV commercials, moved into documentaries then sitcoms; by 1963 Filmways were making $13 million a year. In 1972 he became an independent producer. He attempted to "create" female movie stars during the 1960s; the actresses who achieved the greatest success under his tutelage were Ann-Margret, Tuesday Weld and Sharon Tate, who featured in several of his films from 1964 until her death in 1969. He is a cousin of neurosurgeonJoseph Ransohoff. The Beverly Hillbillies brought Ransohoff his first success in 1962 and thereafter he turned his attention to films. Ransohoff went on to produce such films as American Pop.

Known For

Production

1997Turbulence...Producer
1993Guilty as Sin...Producer
1989Welcome Home...Producer
1989Physical Evidence...Producer
1988Switching Channels...Producer
1987The Big Town...Producer
1985Jagged Edge...Producer
1983Class...Producer
1982Hanky Panky...Producer
1981American Pop...Producer
1980A Change of Seasons...Producer
1979The Wanderers...Producer
1979Nightwing...Producer
1979Co-Ed Fever...Producer
1976Silver Streak...Executive Producer
1974The White Dawn...Producer
1973Save the Tiger...Producer
1972Fuzz...Producer
1971See No Evil...Producer
197110 Rillington Place...Producer
1970The Moonshine War...Producer
1970Catch-22...Producer
1969Hamlet...Producer
1969Castle Keep...Producer
1968A Midsummer Night's Dream...Executive Producer
1968Ice Station Zebra...Producer
1967Our Mother's House...Executive Producer
1967Don't Make Waves...Producer
1966Eye of the Devil...Producer
1965The Cincinnati Kid...Producer
1965The Loved One...Executive Producer
1965The Sandpiper...Producer
1964The Americanization of Emily...Producer
1963The Wheeler Dealers...Producer
1962Boys' Night Out...Producer

Writing

1980A Change of Seasons...Story
1974The White Dawn...Adaptation
1965The Sandpiper...Story

Creator

1979Co-Ed Fever...Creator

Acting

2002Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocenceas Self
1966All Eyes on Sharon Tateas Self
1965The Big Suras Self
1964Action on the Beachas Self