Sidney W. Pink

Sidney W. Pink (born March 6, 1916 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † October 12, 2002 in Pompano Beach , Florida ) was an American independent film producer and occasional film director and screenwriter .

Life

Pink was already familiar with the cinema; his family owned a cinema. Since high school his dream was to become a film producer, which he fulfilled after graduating in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh from 1952 by financing Bwana devil , the first 3D film with worldwide distribution. At the beginning of the 1960s he went to Europe, where he first staged the Reptilicus he wrote in Denmark in 1961 . In the middle of the decade he was back in New York City , where he produced Madigan's millions with Dustin Hoffman , whom he had discovered and who only came to cinemas three years after his filming, in 1969, and in which he worked with Spanish and Italian production teams. which he intensified in the following years. A number of genre films were made by 1970, including a number of westerns . In the 1970s he withdrew (with one exception) from production work and took care of a cinema chain that he owned in Puerto Rico and Florida, where he had lived again since 1974.

Pink's autobiography "So You Want to Make Movies: My Life as an Independent Film Producer" was published in 1989 (Pineapple Press, ISBN 0910923779 ).

Filmography

• 1959: Spacecraft MR-1 gives no answer (The angry red planet)
• 1961: Reptilicus (co-director)
• 1962: Journey to the Seventh Planet
• 1965: Dos mil Dolares por Coyote
• 1965: Finger on the Trigger
• 1966: women who go through hell (las siete magníficas)
• 1966: The witch without a broom (Una bruja sin escoba)
• 1966: Joe Navidad
• 1967: Bang Bang Kid (Bang Bang Kid)
• 1967: The Revenge of Pancho Villa (Lot 7 de Pancho Villa)

Web links

• Sidney W. Pink in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Obituary in The Independent