Ely A. Landau

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Ely Abraham Landau (born January 20, 1920 in New York City , United States , † November 5, 1993 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film producer and distributor .

Life

Landau came to television shortly after the end of World War II , where he got to know the media industry from scratch. He also worked as a producer and director on some early TV shows. In 1953, Landau founded his own company, National Telefilm Associates Inc., in New York, and became its President and CEO from 1957 for the next four years. In 1961 he withdrew from the company and founded a motion picture production company, the Ely Landau Co.

Landau worked now both as a producer and as a distributor of foreign films in the USA. As a producer in the 1960s, he primarily produced several ambitious productions by Sidney Lumet . As a distributor, he distributed, among others, Joseph Losey's British productions The Servant and King and Country - For King and Fatherland as well as Jacques Demy's internationally acclaimed French musical play The Umbrellas of Cherbourg . Landau received an Oscar nomination in 1971 for the documentary about Martin Luther King "... then my life wasn't in vain" .

In 1972 Landau founded the American Film Theater company, with which he had high-quality plays filmed. Just two years later, after a series of commercial flops, Ely Landau had to give up this all too expensive idea. Since then he has only been active sporadically as a producer of what are now very conventional films.

His son Jon Landau and daughters Tina and Kathy Landau were born from his marriage to producer Edie Landau (nee Edythe Rein ) . He has two other sons, including the television director Les Landau .

Filmography

literature

  • 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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 564.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Eric Pace: Ely Landau, Producer, 73, Dies; Filmed Plays for TV and Theaters . In: New York Times, November 8, 1993
  2. Claudia Eller: The Other Captain ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / articles.latimes.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Los Angeles Times, March 20, 1998