Walter Seltzer
Walter Seltzer ( born November 7, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, † February 18, 2011 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States) was an American film producer and writer.
Life
Walter Seltzer attended from 1932 to 1934, the University of Pennsylvania. In 1935 he came to Hollywood, where he got a job at the Fox West Coast Theatres. During the Second World War, he served for four years with the U.S. Marines.
Seltzer worked as a journalist and did the press work for films like Marty or Mutiny on the Bounty, and as part of the MGM publicity team he supplied the gossip columnist with stories about stars like Greta Garbo, Clark Gable and Joan Crawford.
In the 1960s and 1970s, he produced films for Marlon Brando's Pennebaker Productions and for the production company of his friend Charlton Heston, including 2022 ... want to survive ( Soylent Green ), one of the first eco - dystopias, with Charlton Heston and Edward G Robinson. starring, or the science fiction film the Omega Man, also with Charlton Heston in the lead role.
Seltzer went in the late 1970s to retire and limited his future work on the film promotion. He sat on the Board of film promotion organization Motion Picture & Television Fund ( MPTF ), and was honored by this in 1986 with the Silver Medal for humanitarian work.
The last three years of his life Walter Seltzer in the retirement home of the Motion Picture & Television Fund in Woodland Hills, where he passed away from pneumonia at the age of 96 years, on February 18, 2011.