Max J. Rosenberg

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Max J. Rosenberg (born September 13, 1914 in the Bronx , New York City , † June 14, 2004 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film producer with many years of experience in Great Britain.

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The son of a Jewish fur trader began his professional career in the late 1930s as a lawyer. He joined the film industry in 1943 when he bought film material from the turn of the century for $ 1,500 and compiled the snippets of the wistful reminiscence of The Good Old Days . In 1945 Rosenberg finally switched to the film industry and began, with Joseph E. Levine as a business partner, with the distribution of foreign films (including classics such as Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel and Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City ) in the USA. In the early 1950s he met his compatriot Milton Subotsky as he was New Yorker and descendant of Jewish immigrants. Both got together and formed a production community, which was the first to produce the “ Junior Science ” educational program for television in 1954 . With the early rock and roll film Rock, Rock, Rock! Both began their film production in 1956. In the same year he was involved in the production of the horror film classic Frankenstein's Curse, anonymous.

At the beginning of the new decade, Rosenberg and Subotsky, now based in London, concentrated with their company Amicus Productions, founded in 1964, on the production of inexpensive, episodic horror and horror films, mostly set in the present. With them, the team tried to make the British, horror film specialist Hammer Film Productions competition. In contrast to Hammer, the Subotsky-Rosenberg shower strips always played in the present and were mostly composed of several episodes. The actors also made use of the competition: the hammer stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing worked in Rosenberg-Subotsky productions as well as the US horror film star Vincent Price , who had recently appeared in a series of Edgar Allan Poe - Horror films (1960 to 1964) from the hand of Roger Corman . The amicus excursions into the genre of science fiction films (1965 to 1967) were far less successful and sometimes seemed amateurish. In 1968, the duo also tried to make an artistically ambitious film adaptation of the Harold Pint4er piece The Birthday Party . After the premiere of the primeval monster fantasy film Caprona - The Forgotten Land , Amicus Productions was dissolved in 1975, and Rosenberg's and Subotsky's and Rosenberg's parted ways.

Rosenberg made two more Caprona flaps and tried to continue on his own with Subotsky the path of thriller, science fiction and horror films. A little later, however, he had to be content with the role of an - often unnamed - executive producer. In his last working years since the late 1980s, Rosenberg tried again to succeed as a film producer - with very manageable successes. After around 50 films and the Spanish-Mexican genre mix of horror and gangster films he helped produce in 1996, Perdita Durango , Max Rosenberg retired into private life.

Filmography

  • 1943: The Good Old Days (compilation film, documentary film)
  • 1954: Junior Science (television documentary series)
  • 1956: rock, rock, rock ( rock, rock, rock! )
  • 1957: Jamboree
  • 1958: A mile fear ( The Last Mile )
  • 1960: City of the Dead ( The City of Dead )
  • 1962: My Best Friend ( Lad: A Dog )
  • 1962: Twen hit parade (It's Trad, Dad!)
  • 1964: The death cards of Dr. Schreck (Dr. Terror's House of Horrors)
  • 1965: Dr. Who and the Daleks
  • 1965: The Skull of the Marquis de Sade ( The Skull )
  • 1965: The Puppet Killer ( The Psychopath )
  • 1966: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
  • 1966: The Deadly Bees (The Deadly Bees)
  • 1966: The torture garden of Dr. Diabolo ( Torture Garden )
  • 1967: The Terrornauts
  • 1967: They Came from Beyond Space
  • 1967: Rats in the Secret Service ( Danger Route )
  • 1968: The Birthday Party
  • 1968: A Touch of Love
  • 1969: The living corpses of Dr. Mabuse ( Scream and Scream Again )
  • 1969: The Mind of Mr. Soames (The Mind of Mr. Soames )
  • 1970: Dance of Death of the Vampires ( The House That Dripped Blood )
  • 1971: I, monster
  • 1971: Tales from the Crypt ( Tales from the Crypt )
  • 1972: Asylum
  • 1972: In the snare of the devil ( The Vault of Horror )
  • 1972: Embryo of Evil (And Now the Screaming Starts!)
  • 1973: The door to the afterlife ( From Beyond the Grave )
  • 1973: Tales That Witness Madness
  • 1973: Mondblut ( The Beast Must Die )
  • 1974: The house of horrors of Dr. Death (Madhouse)
  • 1974: Caprona - The forgotten land ( The Land That Time Forgot )
  • 1976: The Sixth Continent ( At the Earth's Core )
  • 1976: Welcome to the bloody city ( Welcome to Blood City )
  • 1977: Caprona 2nd part
  • 1977: Greetings from the planet Saturn ( The Incredible Melting Man )
  • 1981: Fear ( Bloody Birthday )
  • 1981: The Combeback Trail
  • 1981: Cat People (Cat People)
  • 1982: Homework ( Homework )
  • 1988: Invasion Earth: The Aliens are Here
  • 1990: On life and death ( Anything to Survive )
  • 1992: Sailing Tour of horror ( Survive the Savage Sea )
  • 1996: Perdita Durango

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personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Max J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, screenwriter, and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2004
Place of death Los Angeles , California