Academy Award for Best Picture as producer of In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Producer of the Year Award, Producers' Guild of America (1967)
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] He won the Academy Award for Best Picture as producer of In the Heat of the Night (1967).[2][3]
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^Gaydos, Steven (February 3, 2015). "Walter Mirisch Looks Back on His First Producing Credit". Variety. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
^"The 40th Academy Awards". www.oscars.org. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
Walter Mortimer Mirisch (November 8, 1921 – February 24, 2023) was an American film producer. He was the president and executive head of production of...
at various times as Mirisch Production Company, Mirisch Pictures Inc., Mirisch Films, and The Mirisch Corporation. WalterMirisch began to work as a producer...
of the Sun is a 1963 DeLuxe Color film directed by J. Lee Thompson for Mirisch Productions set in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest of Chichen Itza...
(1963) Jack L. Warner (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) WalterMirisch (1967) John Woolf (1968) Jerome Hellman (1969) Frank McCarthy (1970)...
produced by WalterMirisch and Julie Andrews. But in November 2020, it was later announced that Jeff Fowler will direct the movie instead with Mirisch and Andrews...
Mirisch will die during the holocaust. Notable people with the surname include: Harold Mirisch (1907–1968) Marvin Mirisch (1918–2002) WalterMirisch (1921–2023)...
Mirisch Productions and starring Elvis Presley. The film was based on the 1959 novel Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard P. Powell. Producer WalterMirisch liked...
He was the brother of Irving Mirisch and half-brother of Marvin Mirisch and WalterMirisch. At the age of 14, Mirisch worked as an office boy at Warner...
After Sturges dropped out in favour of making The Magnificent Seven, WalterMirisch took on the project after reading the book. Filming took place during...
of the 1920s and was near Hollywood. The Mirisch Company was the film's presenter, and producer WalterMirisch employed several crew members from his home...
film starring Gary Cooper and directed by Anthony Mann, produced by WalterMirisch and distributed by United Artists. The screenplay, written by Reginald...
(1960), directed by John Sturges for WalterMirisch's production firm The Mirisch Company. Both Sturges and Mirisch had worked with Dexter before. He was...
a Western with Ann Sheridan; Kansas Pacific (1953), a Western for WalterMirisch; Crime Wave (1954), a film noir. He had a support role in a big studio...
(1963) Jack L. Warner (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) WalterMirisch (1967) John Woolf (1968) Jerome Hellman (1969) Frank McCarthy (1970)...
Matthew (1994). Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9781452904689. Walter Wanger at IMDb p. 49 Mirisch, Walter I Thought We...
the brother of WalterMirisch and the half-brother of Harold Mirisch, who were also film executives; and the half-brother of Irving Mirisch, who ran a company...
American DeLuxe Color Western CinemaScope film. It was produced by the Mirisch Company, directed by Joseph M. Newman, co-written by Martin Goldsmith and...
outline for another Pink Panther film and presented it to series producer WalterMirisch. The producer loved the idea, but the franchise's distributor and main...
(1963) Jack L. Warner (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) WalterMirisch (1967) John Woolf (1968) Jerome Hellman (1969) Frank McCarthy (1970)...
Brynner approached producer WalterMirisch with the idea of remaking Kurosawa's famous samurai film. However, once Mirisch had acquired the rights and...
2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023. Williams, Alex (28 February 2023). "WalterMirisch, Pioneering Producer of Canonical Films, Dies at 101". The New York...
Technicolor. It was personally produced by WalterMirisch, who was production head of Allied Artists at the time. Mirisch had developed the project with Dan Ullman...
In his autobiography, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History, WalterMirisch writes: "People began to read meanings into pictures that were never...
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