Marshall Backlar

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marshall Backlar , also Marshal Backlar , (born August 13, 1935 ) is an American film producer and filmmaker who was nominated for an Oscar in 1966 together with Noel Black for the production of the short film Skaterdater .

biography

Marshall Backlar, who studied at both Princeton University and the University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles and also has a degree from the Sorbonne , had just finished his studies when he and Noel Black made his first film in 1965 , the short film Skaterdater , produced. Black was a fellow student. The film focuses on the romance of a Californian skateboarder with a girl with a bicycle, which turns out to be difficult. Skaterdater was nominated for an Oscar in 1966, but could not prevail against Claude Berri and the French short comedy Le poulet , in which a boy saves a broiler from being eaten. Backlar also produced the music played in Skaterdater . At the Cannes Film Festival , the film was awarded the Palme d'Or in the “Best Short Film” category.

Backlar produced for 20th Century Fox in 1968, again together with Noel Black, who also directed, the thriller-element crime comedy The Angel with the Killer Hand with Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld in the lead roles. The film failed to score with either the critics or the audience and flopped. Later it developed into a kind of cult film in fan circles.

The 1972 crime drama Go to Hell , produced by Backlar together with James Levitt, was based on a story by Iceberg Slim . Slim, a former pimp, was jailed seven times, then renounced crime and became a writer. Two years later, Backlar produced the tragic comedy with thriller elements The Street of Evil , in which the elderly defend themselves against the threat of eviction. Backlar drew attention to itself one last time in the film sector with the action-packed crime comedy The Great Texas Dynamite Chase , in which two sexy women rob banks by using sticks of dynamite .

Backlar, who married in 1972, then embarked on the path of career and executive coaching and founded Backlar Consultants to coach executives. Backlar is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and former Vice President of the ICCO (International Consortium for Coaching and Organization).

Filmography (selection)

Award (selection)

Academy Awards 1966

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marshall Backlar see IMDb (English)
  2. ↑ The 38th Academy Awards | 1966 see oscars.org (English)
  3. ↑ a b Marshal Backlar see information at linkedin.com
personal data
SURNAME Backlar, Marshall
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baking bread, Marshal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1935