Walter Mirisch, the last of three Mirisch brothers who produced best picture Oscar winners “The Apartment,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” as well as comedy classics like “Some Like It Hot” and “The Pink Panther,” has died. He was 101.
Mirisch, who also was a strong presence in the Hollywood community and served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1973 to 1977, died Friday in Los Angeles of natural causes per an academy statement.“The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is deeply saddened to hear of Walter’s passing,” academy Chief Executive Bill Kramer and academy President Janet Yang said in a statement. “Walter was a true visionary, both as a producer and as an industry leader.
Actors, too, fared well in Mirisch films, including Rod Steiger, the best-actor Oscar winner in 1967 for “In the Heat of the Night,” and George Chakiris and Rita Moreno, who won Academy Awards for supporting roles in the 1961 screen version of Broadway’s “West Side Story.” Wilder, who made more than half a dozen films with the Mirisches, once called their approach “a bafflingly simple one.”“Once out of the gate, the Mirisches give you full rein, and never use the whip,” Wilder told the Los Angeles Times in 1967. “When you win a race, they let you wear the wreath. And if you break your leg, they don’t shoot you — they let you do it yourself.
As a concession to Poitier’s concerns for his safety in the Deep South, however, all but a few of “Heat’s” scenes were filmed on location in Sparta, Illinois, instead of Mississippi. “I loved movies, and I loved the idea of creating them and translating one’s dreams into film,” Mirisch told The Times in 2005.Beginning in the 1940s, Walter Mirisch produced B movies for Monogram Pictures, including a series of “Bomba the Jungle Boy” films. He was soon joined at Monogram by Harold, and several years later, Marvin.
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