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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 was in charge of production at the studio when it made Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Love in the Afternoon (1957). The Mirisch Company was founded in 1957 [ 2 ] at which time it signed a 12-picture deal with United Artists (UA) that was extended to 20 films two years later.
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, 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 ...
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.
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.
For a time in the mid-1950s, the Mirisch family held great influence at Allied Artists, with Walter as executive producer, his brother Harold as head of sales, and brother Marvin as assistant treasurer. [14] They pushed the studio into big-budget filmmaking, signing contracts with William Wyler, John Huston, Billy Wilder and Gary Cooper.
Julia Phillips (née Miller; April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband Michael (and others) three prominent films of the 1970s—The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind—and was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, received for The Sting.