Former American television and film production company
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Filmways, Inc.
Company type
Corporation
Industry
Motion pictures, television programs
Founded
1952; 72 years ago (1952)
Founder
Martin Ransohoff Edwin Kasper
Defunct
1982; 42 years ago (1982)
Fate
Acquired by Orion Pictures and renamed as Orion Pictures Corporation
Successor
Orion Pictures Corporation
Headquarters
Sonoma County, California
Key people
Martin Ransohoff, Edwin Kasper, Rodney Erickson
Filmways, Inc. (also known as Filmways Pictures and Filmways Television) was a television and film production company founded by American film executive Martin Ransohoff and Edwin Kasper in 1952.[1] It is probably best remembered as the production company of CBS' "rural comedies" of the 1960s, including Mister Ed, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres, as well as the comedy-drama The Trials of O'Brien, the western Dundee and the Culhane, the adventure show Bearcats!, the police drama Cagney & Lacey, and The Addams Family. Notable films the company produced include The Sandpiper, The Cincinnati Kid, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Ice Station Zebra, Summer Lovers, The Burning, King, Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill and Blow Out, and Death Wish II.
Filmways acquired famous companies throughout the years, such as Heatter-Quigley Productions, Ruby-Spears Productions and American International Pictures. It was also the owner of the film distributor Sigma III Corporation (Closely Watched Trains, Hi, Mom!), and Wally Heider Recording in Hollywood.
Filmways, Inc. (also known as Filmways Pictures and Filmways Television) was a television and film production company founded by American film executive...
program syndication arm of Filmways Television. Filmways was later bought by Orion Pictures Company in 1982 and Filmways was later renamed Orion Pictures...
production company Filmways, Inc. with Edwin Kasper (Kasper left the firm in 1957). The firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1959. Filmways started making...
1968 Steve Allen returned to syndicated variety/talk with a new show for Filmways, produced and co-written by Jeff Harris and Bernie Kukoff. The show was...
to Filmways Corp., a Los Angeles-based entertainment company for $4.5 million. In May 1970 the track was closed and became a tax shelter for Filmways after...
Philadelphia. The film's $18 million budget was high for De Palma, and Filmways spent an additional $9 million to market the film. De Palma considered...
Matter with Helen? and Fuzz for Filmways. She met and married her second husband, Al Simon, a producer for Filmways Television, while working for the...
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settling on Filmways. Orion subsequently purchased Filmways and reorganized the flailing company. New employees were hired and all of Filmways' non-entertainment...
Page. Death Wish II was released in the United States in February 1982 by Filmways Pictures. Like the original, Columbia Pictures handled the international...
Mister Ed is an American television sitcom produced by Filmways that aired in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961, and then on CBS from October...
Taft H-B Program Sales, and Jack E. Rhodes moved to Filmways to relaunch Rhodes Productions as Filmways' domestic distribution arm. Rhodes took the nighttime...
Title Years Network Notes Cagney & Lacey 1982–1988 CBS continued from Filmways; co-production with Mace Neufeld Productions Just Men! 1983 NBC co-production...
He expected the film to cost around $5 million. Ransohoff's company, Filmways, had a deal with MGM to provide financing. Paddy Chayefsky, who had just...
Mister Ed is a U.S. fantasy sitcom that was produced by Filmways. It first aired in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961 and then on CBS from October...
distributor; released in the US by Paramount Pictures and produced by Filmways Pictures Spider-Man 1977–81 3 International theatrical distribution only;...
not make use of the power. Some rights to the franchise were given to Filmways, the production company for the show. The 1964 television adaptation brought...
her professional career as a painter in her later years. According to Filmways publicist Ted Switzer, series creator and producer Paul Henning had decided...
California, after striking oil on their land. The show was produced by Filmways and was created by Paul Henning. It was followed by two other Henning-inspired...
Group Cannon Films Cinecom Dimension Pictures (1970s) Epic Productions Filmways G2 Pictures Goldwyn Pictures Hemdale Film Corporation Island Pictures Louis...
as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast...
was in the final stages of a change of ownership after being bought by Filmways, Inc. a year earlier, and its box office was affected. Warner Bros. decided...
suburbs, using over 120 distinct locations. Several scenes were filmed at Filmways in East Harlem. The remaining portions were filmed in California, or in...
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