Michael Deeley

Michael Deeley ( born August 6 1932 in London) is a British film producer who was on such films as Charlie million from dust (1969 ), The Deer Hunter (1978) and Blade Runner (1982 ) involved. He is also a founding member and Vice Chairman of the British Screen Advisory Council. In 1979, he won together with Barry Spikings and Michael Cimino an Oscar for The Deer Hunter.

Life

Deeley's father was the head of an advertising company and his mother worked as an assistant for various film producers. After he had served during the war in Malaysia, he was given by the relations of his mother a job as an assistant editor at Douglas Fairbanks junior. While working on the television series The Adventures of Robin Hood, he and his partner Harry Booth decided to go into film production. They began 26minütigen money for the short film The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan gather. This short film laid the foundation for Deeley's producing career, even though he initially continued to work as an editor.

In the early 1960s worked for MCA Universal Deeley as sales manager. In 1964 he produced the nudist film Eve and the naked paradise and the comedy film One Way Pendulum. The latter was of Woodfall Film Productions released, the Deeley in 1964 as an assistant to Oscar Lewenstein, head of the company, took under contract.

Deeley then produced Raid (1967 ), together with Stanley Barker. Under the corporate takeovers Oakhurst Productions more films were produced. With Barker and Barry Spikings he founded another company, all wearing " Great Western " in the name and pursued different goals. 1973 took over the three British Lion Films and Deeley became head of the company.

At British Lion Deeley monitored inter alia, the production of, if not Look Now (1973) and The Wicker Man, and helped in the financing of a man sets a trap (1974 ), The Man from metal ( 1974), The shame of the regiment ( 1974), and the clock is running at from (1974). He self-produced 1976 The man who fell from the sky. After the merger with EMI Films Deeley and Spikings took over the management of the resulting company, the best-known works include Convoy and The Deer Hunter (both 1978). However Deeley left EMI Films in 1979 and produced Blade Runner (1982).

From 1984 to 1990, Deeley CEO of Consolidated, a television company, which tried in U.S. television. In 2009 he published his biography Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies.

Filmography

Publications

• Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off. My Life in Cult Movies. Pegasus Books, New York, NY 2009, ISBN 978-1-60598-038-6.