Michael Deeley

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Michael Deeley (born August 6, 1932 in London ) is a British film producer who was involved in films such as Charlie Dusts Millions (1969), Who Goes Through Hell (1978) and Blade Runner (1982). He is also a founding member and vice chairman of the British Screen Advisory Council . In 1979 he won an Oscar with Barry Spikings and Michael Cimino for Going Through Hell .

Life

Deeley's father was the head of an advertising company and his mother worked as an assistant for various film producers. After he during the war in Malaysia had served, he got through the relationship of his mother a job as an assistant editor at Douglas Fairbanks . While working on the television series The Adventures of Robin Hood , he and his partner Harry Booth decided to get into film production. They began raising funds for the 26-minute short film The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn, starring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan . This short film laid the foundation for Deeley's career as a producer, even though he initially continued to work in the field of film editing.

In the early 1960s, Deeley worked for MCA Universal as a sales manager. In 1964 he produced the nudist film Eva and Naked Paradise and the comedy One Way Pendulum . The latter was published by Woodfall Film Productions, which Deeley signed in 1964 as assistant to Oscar Lewenstein , director of the company.

Deeley then co-produced Raid (1967) with Stanley Barker . Other films were produced under the corporate name Oakhurst Productions . With Barker and Barry Spikings he founded other companies, all of which had "Great Westerns" in their names and pursued different goals. In 1973 the three British Lion Films took over and Deeley became head of the company.

At British Lion, Deeley oversaw the production of When the Gondolas Bear Mourning (1973) and The Wicker Man, among others, and helped fund A Man's Trap (1974), The Metal Man (1974), The Shame of the Regiment ( 1974) and The clock runs from (1974) with. He himself produced The Man Who Fell From Heaven in 1976 . After the merger with EMI Films , Deeley and Spikings took over the management of the resulting company. The most famous works include Convoy and Die Going Through Hell (both 1978). However, Deeley left EMI Films in 1979 and produced Blade Runner (1982).

From 1984 to 1990, Deeley was CEO of Consolidated, a television company that dabbled on US television. In 2009 he published his biography Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies .

Filmography (selection)

Publications

  • Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off. My Life in Cult Movies. Pegasus Books, New York NY 2009, ISBN 978-1-60598-038-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Deeley: Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off. My Life in Cult Movies. Pegasus Books, New York NY 2009, pp. 95-97.
  2. ↑ Michael Deeley: Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off. My Life in Cult Movies. Pegasus Books, New York NY 2009, p. 186.
personal data
SURNAME Deeley, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH London