Marshall fluff

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Marshall Allen Flaum (born September 13, 1925 in Brooklyn , New York City , † October 1, 2010 in Los Angeles , California ), was an American film director , screenwriter and producer of documentaries .

Life

Marshall Flaum was born in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bensonhurst and grew up in Union City , New Jersey . After serving as a soldier in World War II , he studied acting at the University of Iowa , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1948. He received lessons from Lee Strasberg and played small roles in the Broadway plays Julius Caesar (1950) at the Arena Theater and Romeo and Juliet at the Broadhurst Theater (1951), but ultimately did not pursue an acting career.

Instead, he began working as a writer and co-producer on the CBS TV documentary show The Twentieth Century in 1957 . The program presented films about significant events of the 20th century and was moderated by Walter Cronkite . Flaum was involved in The Red Sell: The Propaganda Mill and The Red Sell: Report from the Targets episodes , a two-part special about anti-United States Soviet propaganda.

In 1962, Fluff moved to Los Angeles. There he worked with producer David L. Wolper (Wolper Productions). His documentary The Yanks Are Coming about the use of the US armed forces in World War I was nominated at the 1964 Academy Awards in the category " Best Documentary ". Another Oscar nomination in this category earned him Let My People Go in 1966 , a film about the history of the Jews from the early 20th century to the founding of Israel in 1948.

Flaum has been involved in a number of nature-themed television documentaries, often in specials or episodes of series such as Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Secrets of the Sea and The World About Us . Another focus of his work was the portrayal of Hollywood personalities such as Humphrey Bogart ( Bogart , 1967), David O. Selznick ( Hollywood: The Selznick Years , 1970) and Bing Crosby . As producers of Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend (1978), Flaum and Franklin Konigsberg were nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Information Special category. Flaum received another Emmy nomination in the “Outstanding Children's Program” category in 1990 for a documentary about the American animation studio Hanna-Barbera.

Marshall Flaum died in 2010 at the age of 85 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from hip replacement surgery. He left his wife Gita, geb. Miller, and his children Erica and Seth Flaum, both of whom work as film editors .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: The Twentieth Century (TV documentary series, 2 episodes)
  • 1962: Hollywood The Fabulous Era
  • 1963: Hollywood: The Great Stars
  • 1963: The Yanks Are Coming
  • 1963: Escape to Freedom
  • 1963: Ten Seconds That Shook the World
  • 1963: The American Woman in the 20th Century
  • 1964: The Rise and Fall of American Communism
  • 1964: Trial at Nuremberg
  • 1964: December 7th - The Day of Infamy
  • 1964: Berlin: Kaiser to Khruschchev
  • 1964: The Battle of Britain
  • 1965: Let My People Go: the Story of Israel
  • 1967: Bogart
  • 1970–1976: Secrets of the Sea (documentary television series, 20 episodes)
  • 1970: Hollywood: The Selznick Years
  • 1973: Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa
  • 1976: Lions of the Serengeti
  • 1978: Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend
  • 1982: Counterattack: Crime in America
  • 1985: Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
  • 1989: A Yabba-Dabba-Doo Celebration !: 50 Years of Hanna-Barbera
  • 2003: The Desilu Story

literature

  • Harris M. Lentz: Fluff, Marshall. In: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2010. McFarland, Jefferson 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-4175-4 , p. 134.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marshall Fluff dies at 85; award-winning documentary maker . ( Memento from October 21, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) In: The Los Angeles Times , October 6, 2010.
  2. ↑ Marshall Flaum in the Internet Broadway Database . Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  3. ^ The 36th Academy Awards, 1964 oscars.org; accessed on January 13, 2019.
  4. ^ The 38th Academy Awards, 1966 oscars.org. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  5. ^ Outstanding Information Special - 1978 emmys.com. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  6. ^ Outstanding Children's Program 1990 emmys.com. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  7. ↑ Douglas Martin: Marshall Flaum, Documentary Filmmaker, Dies at 85. In: The New York Times October 8, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Fluff, Marshall
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fluff, Marshall Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2010
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States