Ely Landau
Ely Abraham Landau ( born January 20, 1920 in New York City, United States, † November 5, 1993 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film producer and the distributor.
Life
Landau came shortly after the end of World War II to television, where she learned the media industry from scratch to know. In some early TV shows, he also worked as a producer and director. 1953 Landau founded in New York 's own company National Telefilm Associates Inc., whose president and CEO, he was from 1957 for the next four years. In 1961 he retired again from the company and founded a movie production company that Ely Landau Co.
Landau now worked as both a producer and as a distributor of foreign films in the U.S.. As a producer he created especially more ambitious productions of Sidney Lumet in the 60s. As the lender, he drove among others Joseph Losey's The Servant of British productions and King and Country - For King and Country, as well as Jacques Demy's internationally acclaimed, French musical comedy The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. For the documentary about Martin Luther King "... then my life was not in vain " - Martin Luther King received Landau 1971 Oscar nomination.
In 1972, the company Landau American Film Theatre, with whom he had filmed demanding oriented stage plays. Just two years later had to Ely Landau, after a series of commercial flops, give up this idea has become too expensive again. Since then, he was only sporadically active as a producer now very conventional films.