Aubrey Schenck

Aubrey Schenck (born August 26, 1908 in Brooklyn , New York City , United States , † April 14, 1999 in Murrieta , California , United States) was an American film producer .

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Schenck was the son of a Russian-Jewish theater manager and nephew of the film mogul Joseph Schenck , the long-time head of the production company Twentieth Century Fox . Another uncle was Metro Goldwyn Mayer boss Nicholas Schenck . Aubrey Schenck studied law at Cornell University and then joined the New York law firm O'Brien, Driscoll & Raftery. In 1936 he was promoted to house lawyer for the National Theaters, which he also acquired.

In 1945 he was employed by 20th Century Fox, whose new president (since 1942) was Spyros Skouras . Schenck became his personal assistant, and a year later (1946) Skouras let him work as a producer of B-films . Aubrey Schenck quickly strived to become his own boss, but initially had little success with Aubrey Schenck Productions (e.g. the horse film " Red Stallions in the Rockies "). In 1949 he produced his first more important work with “ Drug Brigade ”, a film of the “ Black Series ” shot by László Benedek on location in New York . A plethora of cheaply produced westerns followed in the 1950s, often by Lesley Selander , and in the second half of the 1950s with The Chamber of Horrors of Dr. Thosti and the witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambow also made two horror films with veteran genre stars John Carradine , Lon Chaney junior , Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff .

With the company Bel-Air Productions, Aubrey Schenck started another attempt in 1953 to become independent as a film producer and subsequently concentrated on the production of cheap action fabrics. With Aubrey Schencks Productions, the company owner produced a series of so-called men's films between 1957 and 1969, including the Western Barquero , the science fiction film Emergency Landing in Space and the war film Treason in the Bay . After a television production with Henry Fonda , Aubrey Schenck ended his career as a producer in 1973 at the age of 65.

Aubrey Schenck was president of the Producers Guild of America from 1971 to 1974, the association of American film producers.

Filmography

• 1946: Shock
• 1946: Strange Triangle
• 1947: Repeat Performance
• 1947: Secret Agent T ( T-Men )
• 1948: Miss Wildfang ( Mickey )
• 1949: Down Memory Lane
• 1949: Drug Brigade ( Port of New York )
• 1950: Wyoming Mail
• 1951: Target Unknown
• 1951: The Fat Man
• 1953: In the Valley of Perdition ( War Paint )
• 1954: a license for murder ( Shield for Murder )
• 1955: Blood Money ( Big House, USA )
• 1955: Fort Yuma
• 1955: desert sand ( Desert Sands )
• 1956: Revenge of Cheyenne ( Ghost Town )
• 1956: Against the Law ( The Broken Star )
• 1956: The Chamber of Horrors of Dr. Thosti ( The Black Sleep )
• 1956: Fort Laramie
• 1957: Rebel of the Red Mountains ( War Drums )
• 1957: The Girl in Black Stockings ( The Girl in Black Stockings )
• 1957: Ripe flowers ( Untamed Youth )
• 1957: Hell of the Jungle ( Jungle Heat )
• 1957: Shotgun women ( The Dalton Girls )
• 1958: Men Against Death and the Devil ( Fort Bowie )
• 1958: The witch's kitchen at Dr. Rambow ( Frankenstein 1970 )
• 1958: Secret Command ( Up Periscope )
• 1961: Miami Undercover (TV series)
• 1962: Wild harvest ( Wild Harvest )
• 1964: Emergency landing in space ( Robinson Crusoe on Mars )
• 1965: Treason in the Bay ( Ambush Bay )
• 1967: Nitro ( Kill a Dragon )
• 1968: Killer Cain ( More Dead Than Alive )
• 1969: On the hunt for lost gold ( Impasse )
• 1969: Barquero
• 1970: The Daughters of Satan ( Daughters of Satan )
• 1972: Superbeast
• 1973: In the Last Moment ( The Alpha Caper ) (TV movie)

literature

• International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 255

Web links

• Aubrey Schenck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Obituary in the Los Angeles Times