Post by teleadm on May 31, 2021 6:19:09 GMT
American film producer Jerome Hellman has left us at the age of 92, on May 26th.
He is best known for being the 42nd recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture for Midnight Cowboy (1969). His 1978 film Coming Home was nominated for the same award.
He had his first taste of producing when he took over the role of Executive Producer from his client, President and Producer Worthington C. Miner, in the final days of Unit Four Productions, a partnership of George Roy Hill, Franklin Shaffner and Fielder Cook, producing live one-hour dramas on NBC 1955–57. After leaving NBC, Hill, Shaffner and Cook moved on to directing assignments at Playhouse 90, the first 90-minute TV drama series out of CBS's new studio on the West Coast.
In 1959, he dissolved his talent agency and turned to producing motion pictures exclusively. He partnered with George Roy Hill and produced his first film, The World of Henry Orient 1964, with George Roy Hill directing, starring Peter Sellers (in his first film made in America), Angela Lansbury and Tom Bosley.
Over the next 25 years he produced six more feature films: A Fine Madness 1966 starring Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward and Jean Seberg, Midnight Cowboy 1969 starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, The Day of the Locust 1975 starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith and William Atherton, Coming Home 1978 starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern, Promises in the Dark 1979 also directed by himself, starring Marsha Mason and Ned Beatty and The Mosquito Coast 1986 starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix.
He is remembered by Variety
R.I.P. Jerome Hellman
He is best known for being the 42nd recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture for Midnight Cowboy (1969). His 1978 film Coming Home was nominated for the same award.
He had his first taste of producing when he took over the role of Executive Producer from his client, President and Producer Worthington C. Miner, in the final days of Unit Four Productions, a partnership of George Roy Hill, Franklin Shaffner and Fielder Cook, producing live one-hour dramas on NBC 1955–57. After leaving NBC, Hill, Shaffner and Cook moved on to directing assignments at Playhouse 90, the first 90-minute TV drama series out of CBS's new studio on the West Coast.
In 1959, he dissolved his talent agency and turned to producing motion pictures exclusively. He partnered with George Roy Hill and produced his first film, The World of Henry Orient 1964, with George Roy Hill directing, starring Peter Sellers (in his first film made in America), Angela Lansbury and Tom Bosley.
Over the next 25 years he produced six more feature films: A Fine Madness 1966 starring Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward and Jean Seberg, Midnight Cowboy 1969 starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, The Day of the Locust 1975 starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith and William Atherton, Coming Home 1978 starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern, Promises in the Dark 1979 also directed by himself, starring Marsha Mason and Ned Beatty and The Mosquito Coast 1986 starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix.
He is remembered by Variety
R.I.P. Jerome Hellman