Ross Hunter
Ross Hunter ( born May 6, 1920 as Martin T. foot in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, † 10 March 1996 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film producer.
Life and work
Hunter studied at Western Reserve University and began working as a teacher. During the Second World War he served in the Intelligence Division of the U.S. Army. 1944 Hunter returned briefly to the teaching profession. After the existence of a film aptitude tests at Paramount Pictures Hunter, who had worked previously under his birth name Martin Fuss received an offer from broadcasting. The casting director of Columbia Pictures hired him then suggested changing his name before in Ross Hunter and gave him several film roles.
Dissatisfied with the role offering, Hunter went back to teaching in 1949 and worked as a drama teacher at Ben Bard Dramatic School. Then he moved to production, first at the theater, where Hunter at the San Fernando Valley Theater, the piece Dreamgirl put on the legs. In 1951 he was hired by Universal Studios for two weeks in order to reduce the production cost of the B- movie The flame of Arabia. Hunter saved a $ 172,000 and was then fixed as a producer. His most successful period began in the fall of 1952 with the continuous cooperation with Universal House director Douglas Sirk. Both realized " a number of very promising funds, tears dripping feeling sentimental songs that appealed primarily a female audience. "
His collaboration with the Hollywood - trippers Helmut Käutner ( Too Young, A stranger in my arms, 1958), however, disappointed in every aspect. In return, Hunters cooperation proved to Doris Day - the comedy Pillow Talk (1959) and the thriller Midnight Lace (1960 ) with Rock Hudson respectively Rex Harrison as each day partner - as a great success.
With the film adaptation of Arthur Hailey's best-selling Airport, " a menschelnder disaster movie ", which should put several movie sequels to aircraft in acute distress in transition, succeeded Hunter in 1970 once again a huge success, which even earned him an Oscar nomination. On 1 April 1971 joined Ross Hunter, after 20 years service in the pay of the Universal, to Columbia, for which he should produce only a movie: the " disastrous mega flop " Lost Horizon, the film adaptation of the novel Lost Horizon. It was his last theatrical production. On October 1, 1974 Hunter switched again to the employer and this time went to Paramount for its television division, he created films until the end of the decade.