Milton Subotsky

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Milton Subotsky (born September 27, 1921 in New York City , † June 27, 1991 in London ) was an American film producer , screenwriter and songwriter with the main field of activity Great Britain.

Live and act

Subotsky studied engineering. During the Second World War, the native New Yorker served in the United States Army Signal Corps and was involved in several functions in the production of military instructional and training films. The son of Jewish immigrants has been producing and writing for live television programs since 1941. Around 1950 he also began writing screenplays for television entertainment films.

It wasn't until the mid-1950s that his career took off a little. Subotsky produced the educational program “ Junior Science ” for television in 1954 and from 1956, starting with the early rock'n'roll film “ Rock, Rock, Rock! ", Which he produced with his long-time partner Max J. Rosenberg and to which he contributed the lyrics to nine songs, regularly produces cinema films. At the beginning of the new decade, Subotsky and Rosenberg, now based in London, concentrated with their company Amicus Productions, founded in 1964, on the production of inexpensive horror and scary films, with which the team tried to compete with the British horror film productions, Hammer Film Productions . The actors were also used to the competition: The hammer stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing worked in Subotsky productions as well as the US horror film star Vincent Price , who had recently been involved in a series of Edgar Allan Poe horror films (1960 to 1964) had ended 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. After the production of the prehistoric monster fantasy film Caprona - The Forgotten Land , Amicus Productions was dissolved in 1975, and Subotsky and Rosenberg parted ways.

With Frank Duggan, Milton Subotsky then founded Sword & Sorcery Productions Ltd. and continued to make films, now to a significantly reduced extent. Initially, he remained true to the themes of fantasy and horror films, but the Londoner by choice soon also produced thriller film adaptations, some of which were based on novels by Stephen King . In 1978/79 Milton Subotsky produced the cinematic implementation of Ray Bradbury's Die Mars Chroniken , starring Hollywood veteran Rock Hudson , as an elaborate three-part film for television .

Filmography

As a producer, unless otherwise stated

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1991, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1991, p. 314

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personal data
SURNAME Subotsky, Milton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, screenwriter, and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1991
Place of death London