Walter Mirisch, the astute and Oscar winning film producer who oversaw such classics as “Some Like It Hot,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” has died. He was 101.
Producer Walter Mirisch at the 55th Annual Academy Awards on April 11, 1983.Walter Mirisch, the astute and Oscar winning film producer who oversaw such classics as “Some Like It Hot,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” has died of natural causes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Saturday. He was 101.
As a producer, Mirisch aggressively recruited top filmmakers such as Billy Wilder and Norman Jewison, then gave them freedom to craft the movies as they saw fit. The company he founded in 1957 with his brother Marvin and half brother Harold was one of the most successful independent production outfits to arise from the old studio system as television cut into movie attendance.
Elmore Leonard — the crime novelist and screenwriter on two Mirisch productions, 1974's "Mr. Majestyk" and the 1987 TV movie "Desperado" — dedicated his Hollywood satire "Get Shorty" to Mirisch, calling him "one of the good guys." "We've worked with brilliant directors and producer-directors, and I must say that the relationship with each of them has been entirely different," he said.
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