Frank McCarthy (film producer)
Frank McCarthy (born June 8, 1912 in Richmond , Virginia - † December 1, 1986 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American brigadier general , assistant secretary of state and producer of war films for the film Patton: Rebel in uniform received the Oscar for best film of 1970 at the Academy Awards in 1971 .
biography
After attending school, he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and graduated in 1933. During the Second World War he was aide-de-camp of General George C. Marshall and received the Army Distinguished Service Medal from 1943 to 1945 after his entry as Colonel and Secretary of the General Staff . He was then promoted to Brigadier General in 1945 and retired as such . He was then from September 1 until his replacement by Donald S. Russell on October 11, 1945 Assistant to the US Secretary of State for Administrative Affairs ( Assistant Secretary of State for Administration ).
As early as 1938 he was a technical advisor for the film Brother Advice from William Keighley , before he later worked as a film producer himself. The films he has produced include Decision before Dawn (1951), for which he was nominated for best film at the 1952 Academy Awards , Single-Handed (1953), but also the romantic comedy Leitfaden für Seitensprünge (1967) with Walter Matthau and Inger Stevens .
His most famous film, however, was Patton - Rebel in Uniform (1970), for which he received the Oscar for best picture at the 1971 Academy Awards. He had worked on the cinematic biography of General George S. Patton for around 20 years. On the night of the Academy Awards, he also received the Oscar for Best Actor, as the winner George C. Scott was the first in Academy Award history to refuse acceptance because he considered it unworthy of competing with other actors have to. McCarthy returned Patton's Oscar to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the day after the Academy Awards , accepting Scott's decision to refuse acceptance.
His own Oscar for Best Picture is located in the Marshall Foundation building on the Virginia Military Institute campus .
In addition to the television film Fireball Forward (1972) with Ben Gazzara and Ricardo Montalbán , McCarthy last produced the war film MacArthur - Hero of the Pacific in 1977 with Gregory Peck in the role of General Douglas MacArthur .
Web links
- Frank McCarthy at the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McCarthy, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American brigadier general and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Richmond , Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st December 1986 |
| Place of death | Woodland Hills , California |