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Walter Mortimer Mirisch (November 8, 1921 – February 24, 2023) was an American film producer. He was the president and executive head of production of The Mirisch Corporation , an independent film production company which he formed in 1957 with his brother, Marvin , and half-brother, Harold . [ 1 ]
Walter Mirisch, the last of three Mirisch brothers who produced or oversaw production of many highly regarded films in the 1950s and '60s, including the Oscar-winning "In the Heat of the Night ...
The Mirisch Company was an American film production company owned by Walter Mirisch and his brothers, Marvin and Harold Mirisch. The company also had sister firms known at various times as Mirisch Production Company , Mirisch Pictures Inc. , Mirisch Films , and The Mirisch Corporation .
Walter Mirisch, a former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and an Oscar-winning producer for “In the Heat of the Night,” died Feb. 24 in Los Angeles of natural causes.
John A. Mirisch was born to a prominent family in Beverly Hills. [3] [4] He has a brother and a step-sister, the daughter of his mother's second husband Leonard Goldberg. [4] His grandfather, Harold Mirisch, alongside his great-uncles Walter Mirisch (1921–2023) and Marvin Mirisch (1918–2002), founded the Mirisch Company in 1957.
Walter Mirisch, former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Oscar-winning producer for In the Heat of the Night, died Friday in Los Angeles of natural causes. was 101.
Walter Mirisch had been general manager of Monogram Pictures since 1945. They specialized in low-budget movies, including series of regular characters such as Charlie Chan, Joe Palooka, and the Bowery Boys. Mirisch looked at the success of the Tarzan films and remembered the Bomba novels; he thought they might translate well into movies.
The move leaves the Lindseys having to juggle the competing demands of show-business life in the city and family life in the suburbs. [2] Mary is the more level-headed and confident of the two, and her dream is to live the complete suburban lifestyle that she has read about in magazines of book clubs , the Garden Club of America , the parent ...