AC Lyles

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Andrew Craddock Lyles Jr. (Born May 17, 1918 in Jacksonville , Florida , † September 27, 2013 in Bel Air , California ) was an American film producer .

Life and work in film

Lyles attended Andrew Jackson High School in his hometown of Jacksonville and first made contact with the film world in 1928 when he was doing unspecified services in Florida for the Publix Theater chain of Paramount Pictures . As early as 1932, Lyles was able to interview Hollywood stars for the Jacksonville Journal as a young reporter due to his early teenage film contacts. As a young adult, Lyles moved to Los Angeles and was hired by Paramount as a delivery boy there in 1937. The following year he moved to the advertising department of this production company, and just two years later, in 1940, Lyles rose to head of the advertising department of Pine-Thomas Productions, a division of Paramount. Eventually Lyles was appointed production manager. During this time he got to know the young actor Ronald Reagan , with whom he would later have a lifelong friendship, also during his time as US President.

In the 1956 drama about a flight crash in the Swiss Alps, The Mountain of Temptation with Spencer Tracy in the lead role, AC Lyles got the job of a production assistant. The following year he made his debut as sole film producer on the only production of Hollywood legend James Cagney , but Lyles could never leave the status of a B-film producer. His most intense creative period was the years 1963 to 1967, when Lyles produced an abundance of tame, sedate and little action-packed Wild West films for his own company (AC Lyles Productions) with Paramount as the distribution company, in which a number of well-known old stars (including Rory Calhoun , Howard Keel , Jane Russell , Barton MacLane , Corinne Calvet , Dana Andrews , Richard Arlen , John Agar and Lon Chaney junior ), which by then had long passed their popularity scene. Veteran RG Springsteen directed the majority of these “old-fashioned westerns” . In the 1970s, Lyles was only able to produce one cheap movie for the cinema ("Rabbits") and a few completely insignificant television films.

In 1948 Lyles married actress Martha Vickers , but they divorced the following year. The producer had a second marriage from 1955 until his death in 2013. Until his death, Lyles had been a popular interviewee for documentaries, also as he was one of the last living film producers of his era. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his film work .

Connections to the White House

Lyles' longstanding friendship with Ronald Reagan paid off when Reagan was sworn in as the 40th President of the United States in January 1981. Reagan appointed him in 1983 as a presidential advisor on public initiatives in the private sector. AC Lyles was also a welcome guest during the Reagan era, attending presidential meetings at the White House and overseas. Reagan successor George Bush also secured Lyles' collaboration when it came to maintaining contacts with the film and entertainment industry. In 1984 Reagan personally presented Lyles with the George Washington Award from the Freedoms Foundation.

Filmography

  • 1957: With Satan on You ( Short Cut to Hell )
  • 1959: A Thousand Miles of Dust (Rawhide, TV series)
  • 1960: Raymie
  • 1962: Hail of Steel ( The Young and the Brave )
  • 1963: The Law of the wicked ( Law of the Lawless )
  • 1963: Stage to Thunder Rock ( Stage to Thunder rock )
  • 1964: Gunslingers of Fall River ( Young Fury )
  • 1964: Black spores ( Black Spurs )
  • 1964: Revolvers don't argue ( Town Tamer )
  • 1965: The Apache ( Apache Uprising )
  • 1965: Wyoming-Bravados ( Waco )
  • 1966: Sheriff Johnny Reno ( Johnny Reno )
  • 1966: The Bloody West ( Red Tomahawk )
  • 1967: Texas Desperados ( Hostile Guns )
  • 1967: The Lawless Three ( Fort Utah )
  • 1967: Totem ( Day of the Evil Gun )
  • 1967: The Highwaymen ( Arizona Bushwackers )
  • 1968: Shadok ( Buckskin )
  • 1968: Rogues' Gallery
  • 1972: Rabbits ( The Night of the Lepus )
  • 1975: The Last Day of the Daltons ( The Last Day , Movie made for TV)
  • 1977: Flight to Holocaust (TV film, also co-script)
  • 1979: A Christmas for Boomer (TV movie)
  • 1980: Boomer the Stray ( Here's Boomer TV series)
  • 1988: Conversations with the Presidents (documentary)

literature

  • 1985 International Television Almanac, Quigley Publishing Company, New York / London. P. 166

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 590.
personal data
SURNAME Lyles, AC
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lyles, Andrew Craddock Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Jacksonville , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2013
Place of death Jacksonville , United States