Sam Katzman

 

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Sam Katzman was an American film producer and director. Katzman went to work as a stage laborer at the age of 13 in the fledgling East Coast film industry. He would learn all aspects of filmmaking and was a Hollywood producer for more than 40 years. Katzman produced low-budget genre films, including serials, which had proportionally high returns for the studios and his financial backers. He is known for numerous westerns of the '30s, his Bela Lugosi and East Side Kids features of the '40s, the 15-chapter Superman serial of 1948 and a string of rock-'n'-roll musicals in the '50s. At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the '60s Katzman produced several Elvis Presley films and singer Roy Orbison's only film, The Fastest Guitar Alive. His best known films are probably Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and The Werewolf. He is the uncle of television producer Leonard Katzman. Sam Katzman died on August 4, 1973, in Hollywood. He is interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California

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Sam Katzman

Born 1901-07-07 (124 years ago) in New York City, New York, USA. Dead 1973-08-04 (72 years).

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Name From To Relationship type
Hortense Petra(Gifta) 1973-08-04 Gifta
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Jerome F. Katzman

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Abraham Katzman, Rebecca Katzman

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Sam Katzman was an American film producer and director. Katzman went to work as a stage laborer at the age of 13 in the fledgling East Coast film industry. He would learn all aspects of filmmaking and was a Hollywood producer for more than 40 years.

Katzman produced low-budget genre films, including serials, which had proportionally high returns for the studios and his financial backers. He is known for numerous westerns of the '30s, his Bela Lugosi and East Side Kids features of the '40s, the 15-chapter Superman serial of 1948 and a string of rock-'n'-roll musicals in the '50s. At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the '60s Katzman produced several Elvis Presley films and singer Roy Orbison's only film, The Fastest Guitar Alive. His best known films are probably Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and The Werewolf.

He is the uncle of television producer Leonard Katzman. Sam Katzman died on August 4, 1973, in Hollywood. He is interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Content from Wikipedia provided under the terms of Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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