Robert B. Radnitz
Robert Bonoff Radnitz ( born August 9, 1924 in Great Neck, Long Iceland, New York, † June 6, 2010 in Malibu, California ) was an American film producer.
Life
Radnitz grew up as an only child in Great Neck on Long Iceland on. As a boy, he suffered from asthma and spent his weekends with his father. The two most went into double performances in the cinema, so that Radnitz as a child was a great overview of the various film genres. He received an " undergraduate degree " at the University of Virginia in Drama and English. He then taught for a year at his English faculty.
His entry into the entertainment industry made him the assistant to the theater director Harold Clurman. Radnitz began in the 1950s with his own productions on Broadway, including The lower Frogs of Spring and The Young and the Beautiful. On October 16, 1966, he married Joanna Crawford, the author of Birch Interval. Radnitz had this novel in 1973 to film the second time.
Radnitz moved to Hollywood and began working as a script consultant for 20th Century Fox. One of his first productions was the movie Patrasche, my little friend (1959 ), a film adaptation of the book A Dog of Flanders by Ouida. The movie made sure that Radnitz became known as a creator of high- quality films for teenagers and their parents.
In 1961 he turned his horse movie Misty, the pony of the island and in 1964 a film version of the story Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. The film was highly praised by The Times, because he is a prime example of a youth film, the rousing and morally equally be without it trying to teach.
In May 1970 joined Radnitz and the toy manufacturer Mattel a partnership to produce films for children. This included a year as Robinson. The Museum of Modern Art in 1969 showed a retrospective of him and praised the producers for its artistic value youth films that were superior to the part of the adult films in her claim.
The film The year without a father (1972 ), based on the same highly acclaimed novel by William H. Armstrong is considered his most famous work, even though Radnitz was warned that the theatergoers would not like the movie. The film was nominated for an Oscar as Oscar / Best Picture. The film critic Charles Champlin described the work in the Los Angeles Times as one of the ten best films this year.
In 1974, Where the lilies bloom. Radnitz ' Cross Creek, based on the autobiographical novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, received four Oscar nominations.
Radnitz died at the age of 85 years on the effects of a stroke.