Dracula walter mirisch autobiography

Walter Mortimer Mirisch (November 8, – February 24, ) was an American film producer..

Walter Mirisch, who has died aged , was one of the few film producers of the post-Hollywood studio era who had the intuition and the know-how of the old.

" In his memoir, Mirisch writes that "John Huston, in his autobiography, said that he was aghast when he saw what I had done in the re-editing of his picture.

Walter Mortimer Mirisch (November 8, – February 24, ) was an American film producer.

DRACULA.

Somehow he had managed to stumble upon full adulthood without having been exposed to the veritable gauntlet of Dracula films produced in the last fifty years.

WALTER MIRISCH

What do the following films have in common: Some Like It Hot, The Magnificent Seven, West Side Story, The Great Escape, The Pink Panther, In the Heat of the Night, The Thomas Crown Affair and Dracula?

You might perhaps think nothing at all, but in fact they are all the work from just one producer, Walter Mirisch, who has died from natural causes at the age of 101. In his time, Mirisch was doubtless the envy of Hollywood for, even after more than fifty years in the business, it must be rare for a single producer to have had so many successful films on his cv.

Of course, the above titles are just some of the cream of the crop.

Walter Mortimer Mirisch was the youngest of three sons born to Max Mirisch, a tailor and émigré from Krakow in Poland, and his wife Josephine Urbach.

After graduation, Walter worked as an usher in the State Theatre in New Jersey, his first entry into the film business. At 26 his first movie was Fall Guy, a film noir for Monogram Pictures,