Samuel Bischoff

Samuel Bischoff (born August 11, 1890 in Hartford , United States , † May 21, 1975 in Hollywood , California ) was an American film producer .

Samuel Bischoff

Live and act

Bischoff studied at Boston University and joined the film business in 1922 when he started his own small production company (Samuel Bischoff Productions). Bischoff produced around 30 short films over the next six years, but their success remained manageable. Nevertheless Harry Cohn became aware of him, and the head of Columbia Pictures entrusted Bischoff with the supervision of the film production in 1928, before Bischoff switched to the small company Tiffany Productions in 1931 and was now allowed to produce feature films there. Bischoff only stayed here for a short time, as he founded his own production company, KBS Pictures, with colleagues Burt Kelly and William Saal the following year. The company initials refer to the three first letters of the surnames of the three company founders. In 1932, Bischoff directed his only film under his own company roof, the crime drama The Last Mile .

The production company ceased operations as early as 1933. In the same year, Bischoff moved to First National Pictures and finally to Warner Bros. in 1934. He stayed there until the end of 1939 and produced, often unnamed, a plethora of westerns and gangster film classics such as Kid Galahad - With Hard Fists , Chicago - Angels with Dirty Faces , The Little Star and The Roaring Twenties with the genre greats Edward G. Robinson , James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart . Bischoff's gradual decline began when he joined Columbia Pictures . Although he succeeded there at the beginning of his time with the musical classic Reich you will never be another great success with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in 1941, Bischoff's follow-up films turned out to be little more than just average production standards.

Short-term changes to RKO and again to Warner Bros. brought no career boost at the beginning of the 1950s. In 1956, Samuel Bischoff largely ended his career as a film producer with an unimportant war film and now also sporadically turned to television. With the cinematic quick shot Hunt for Eichmann , the cinematic reaction to the kidnapping of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by an Israeli special command in South America in 1960, Samuel Bischoff briefly returned to the cinema in the early 1960s. In 1963 he finally ended his work as a film producer with the horror thriller The Strangler of Boston .

Filmography

As a film producer, mostly short films until 1928:

• 1922: Mixed nuts
• 1924: Racing Luck
• 1924: Try and Get it
• 1925: Assorted Nuts
• 1925: Play Ball
• 1925: Spooky Spooks
• 1925: Roomers Afloat
• 1925: Starvation Hunters
• 1925: service
• 1926: Rain and Shine
• 1926: Defective Detectives
• 1926: The Silent Flyers
• 1926: The Gypsy Romance
• 1926: Fangs of Justice
• 1927: The Snarl of Hate
• 1927: Sumuru
• 1928: Code of the Air
• 1931: Graft
• 1931: Homicide Squad
• 1931: X Marks the Spot
• 1932: Lena Rivers
• 1932: The Last Mile (also director)
• 1932: Come On, Tarzan
• 1932: Tombstone Canyon
• 1933: Drum Taps
• 1933: Deluge
• 1933: Fargo Express
• 1934: Babbitt
• 1934: Bedside
• 1934: The St. Louis Kid
• 1935: Sweet Music
• 1935: Frisco, the city without a law (Frisco Kid)
• 1935: Broadway gondolier
• 1936: The Treason of Surat Khan (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
• 1936: China Clipper
• 1937: Escape from San Quentin (San Quentin)
• 1937: Kid Galahad - With hard fists (Kid Galahad)
• 1937: Ready, Willing and Able
• 1937: Hollywood Hotel
• 1937: Goldene Erde California (Gold is Where you Find It)
• 1938: The Little Star (Boy Meets Girl)
• 1938: A Slight Case of Murder
• 1938: Chicago Angels with Dirty Faces
• 1938: The Little Star (Boy Meets Girl)
• 1939: Oklahoma Kid (The Oklahoma Kid)
• 1939: The Roaring Twenties (The Roaring Twenties)
• 1939: A Child is Born
• 1939: Castle on the Hudson
• 1940: Escape to Glory
• 1941: Empire you'll never (You'll Never Get Rich)
• 1941: Escape to Texas (Texas)
• 1942: Two Yanks in Trinidad
• 1942: A Night to Remember
• 1943: Appointment in Berlin
• 1943: Dangerous Blondes
• 1944: None Shall Escape
• 1944: Carolina Blues
• 1945: 1001 Nights (1001 Nights)
• 1946: Mr. District Attorney
• 1947: The Beast of Shanghai (Intrigue)
• 1948: Pitfall
• 1949: Riots in Morocco (Outpost in Morocco)
• 1949: Mrs. Mike
• 1950: Macau
• 1951: Sealed Cargo
• 1951: The Avenger (Best of the Badmen)
• 1952: The Las Vegas Story
• 1952: At the head of the Apaches (The Half-Breed)
• 1953: The System
• 1953: Escape from Shanghai (South Sea Woman)
• 1954: Knight of the Prairie (The Bounty Hunter)
• 1955: File XP 15 (A Bullet for Joey)
• 1955: A City Goes Through Hell (The Phenix City Story)
• 1956: Screaming Eagles
• 1961: Hunt for Eichmann (Operation Eichmann)
• 1963: The Strangler

literature

• International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 24

Web links

Commons : Samuel Bischoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Samuel Bischoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)