Gabriel Katzka

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Gabriel Katzka (born January 25, 1931 in New York City , † February 19, 1990 ibid) was an American theater manager and film producer .

Life

Katzka was born in the New York borough of Brooklyn and was the son of a lawyer who a. a. as a financier of stage performances. Under the leadership of Alexander H. Cohen , Katzka junior began to get involved in the production and management of Broadway stages as early as the 1950s. In 1957 he created the play " Hide and Seek " and in the first half of the following decade he worked in various functions on Broadway productions as diverse as " Beyond the Fringe " (1962), " The School for Scandal " (1963) , " Man and Boy " (1963), " Hamlet " (1964) and " Baker Street " (1965) involved.

At the same time, at the beginning of this decade, Katzka gained his first experience in this medium as a production assistant for film. In 1968 he made his debut as the sole responsible film producer for his own small company Cherokee Productions with a Philip Marlowe crime thriller with James Garner in the lead role. From then on, Katzka remained loyal to top-class cast (including Walter Matthau , Clint Eastwood , Warren Beatty , Sean Connery and Terence Hill ), dramatic subjects - westerns, crime films, political dramas and science fiction films. With his last production, a television series about the private detective Philip Marlowe, Gabriel Katzka returned thematically to the beginning of his production in the mid-1980s.

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. 319.

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personal data
SURNAME Katzka, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater manager and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1990
Place of death New York City