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Lewis J. Rachmil is a Associate Producer, Second Unit Director, Art Direction and Cinematography American born on 3 july 1908 at New York City (USA)

Lewis J. Rachmil

Lewis J. Rachmil
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Nationality USA
Birth 3 july 1908 at New York City (USA)
Death 19 february 1984 (at 75 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)

Lewis J. Rachmil (3 July 1908 – 19 February 1984) was an American film producer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Our Town. In the mid and late 1940s, he produced several of William Boyd's popular Hopalong Cassidy B-Westerns. In 1959, he was producer of Men into Space, a one-season CBS TV series that tried to give a serious science fiction preview of where the then-new American space program seemed to be heading. During the 1960s he produced several films in England for Mirisch Films.

He was born in New York City, New York and died in Beverly Hills, California.

Biography

Lewis J. Rachmil débute au cinéma comme décorateur de plateau, chef décorateur ou directeur artistique (excepté deux films comme assistant-réalisateur), sur soixante-cinq films américains sortis de 1934 à 1941. Pour l'un d'eux, Une petite ville sans histoire de Sam Wood (1940, avec William Holden et Martha Scott), il obtient en 1941 une nomination à l'Oscar de la meilleure direction artistique.

Puis il entame une seconde carrière de producteur, contribuant ainsi à soixante-sept films (majoritairement américains, plus quelques-uns britanniques) de 1941 à 1973, dont de nombreux westerns (déjà durant sa première période), après quoi il se retire quasiment. Toutefois, il produit encore deux derniers films sortis en 1984 (année de sa mort) et réalisés par Herbert Ross, Footloose (avec Kevin Bacon et Lori Singer) et Protocol (avec Goldie Hawn et Chris Sarandon).

Parmi ses autres films notables comme producteur, citons Désirs humains de Fritz Lang (1954, avec Glenn Ford et Gloria Grahame), Le Souffle de la violence de Rudolph Maté (1955, avec Glenn Ford et Barbara Stanwyck) et L'Infaillible Inspecteur Clouseau de Bud Yorkin (1968, avec Alan Arkin dans le rôle-titre).

À la télévision, Lewis J. Rachmil est producteur pour trois séries, dont Hopalong Cassidy (1952, avec William Boyd dans le rôle-titre) et Men into Space (1959-1960, avec William Lundigan).

Best films

Footloose (1984)
(Producer)
Hawaii (1966)
(Associate Producer)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lewis J. Rachmil (92 films)

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Producer

Footloose
Footloose (1984)
, 1h47
Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.300693.300693.300693.300693.30069
Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager raised in Chicago, moves to the small town of Bomont to live with his aunt and uncle. Soon after arriving, Ren makes a friend, Willard Hewitt (Chris Penn), and from him learns the city council has banned dancing and rock music. He soon begins to fall for a rebellious girl named Ariel (Lori Singer), who has an abusive boyfriend, Chuck Cranston (Jim Youngs), and a domineering father, Reverend Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), an authority figure in the town.
Protocol
Protocol (1984)
, 1h36
Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Gail Strickland, Cliff De Young, Andre Gregory
Roles Associate Producer
Rating55% 2.750992.750992.750992.750992.75099
Sunny Ann Davis is a seemingly ditzy blonde who works as a cocktail waitress in Washington, D.C. She rents a small room in the home of a gay couple, has a lousy love life and drives a rust bucket of a car that she cannot afford to repair.
Trader Horn, 1h41
Directed by Reza Badiyi
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Rod Taylor, Anne Heywood, Jean Sorel, Don Knight, Ed Bernard, Stack Pierce
Roles Producer
Rating44% 2.248382.248382.248382.248382.24838
During World War I, Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn leads an expedition in search of a platinum mine in an unexplored region of Africa. The trio encounter warring natives, rhinos and lions. They travel through jungle, swamps, and desert. They are pursued by German soldiers wanting the platinum for the war effort. And by a British officer hunting Horn as a traitor.
Mosquito Squadron, 1h30
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors David McCallum, David Buck, Suzanne Neve, Charles Gray, Vladek Sheybal, Robert Urquhart
Roles Producer
Rating56% 2.8491152.8491152.8491152.8491152.849115
It is the Second World War and the Royal Air Force attacks German V-1 flying bomb installations during the early summer of 1944. The de Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber aircraft of Squadron Leader David "Scotty" Scott (David Buck) is shot down during a low-level bombing raid on a V-1 launching site, and Scott and his navigator/bomb-aimer are reportedly killed. His wingman and friend, then-Flight Lieutenant (later insignia Royal Canadian Air Force squadron leader) Quint Munroe (David McCallum) comforts Scott's wife Beth (Suzanne Neve) and a romance soon develops, rekindling one that they had had years earlier.
Inspector Clouseau, 1h36
Directed by Bud Yorkin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Delia Boccardo, Patrick Cargill, Beryl Reid, Barry Foster
Roles Producer
Rating48% 2.405652.405652.405652.405652.40565
An organized crime wave strikes across Europe. Suspecting a mole within Scotland Yard, the Prime Minister brings Clouseau in to solve the case. Clouseau foils two assassination attempts but is subsequently kidnapped. The gang uses him to make masks of his face which they later use to commit a series of daring bank robberies across Switzerland. Eventually, Clouseau foils the plot and unmasks the traitor within the Yard.
Hawaii
Hawaii (1966)
, 3h9
Directed by George Roy Hill, James Blue, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Gene Hackman, Jocelyne LaGarde, Richard Harris, Carroll O'Connor
Roles Associate Producer
Rating64% 3.248513.248513.248513.248513.24851
The story follows Prince Keoki Kanakoa, the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha, who join the prince on mission to the Islands of Hawaii for the Calvinist church with the promise to make Kanakoa a minister. Upon their arrival to the islands, the ship stops in Lahaina, Maui before going on to Honolulu, Oahu where the main church has been established. There they are greeted by the aliʻi nui, Malama Kanakoa, Keoki's mother, who stops the Hales from traveling further when she demands Jerusha remain in Lahaina to teach her to write. Reverend Hale attempts to teach her of the Christian God first but she refuses until she, herself can write. Only after that will she listen to Abner's Christian teachings. As Hale learns, there is a serious difference between a destiny calling to him and the call to recognize the needs of others.
A Rage to Live, 1h41
Directed by Walter Grauman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Sarah Marshall, Peter Graves, Bethel Leslie
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.1429153.1429153.1429153.1429153.142915
Newspaper heiress Grace Caldwell's nymphomania threatens to destroy the reputation of her staid, wealthy Pennsylvania family. As a precocious teenager, she succumbs to the advances of her older brother Brock's friend Charlie Jay, a decision that apparently ignites her passion for all men.
Return from the Ashes, 1h45
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Maximilian Schell, Ingrid Thulin, Samantha Eggar, Herbert Lom, Talitha Getty, Vladek Sheybal
Roles Executive Producer
Rating68% 3.4387753.4387753.4387753.4387753.438775
Shortly before the Nazi invasion of France, Dr. Michele Wulf (Thulin) encounters the younger Stanislaus Pilgrin (Schell) over a game of lightning chess, not being aware that Pilgrin is a chess master. She becomes intrigued with the fortune-hunting Pilgrin and the two begin a liaison. Upon the Nazi invasion, in order to protect Michele, who is Jewish, Stan marries her, to no avail it turns out when the Gestapo arrests her and sends her to a concentration camp.
633 Squadron, 1h41
Directed by Walter Grauman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Harry Andrews, Donald Houston, Michael Goodliffe
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.1978253.1978253.1978253.1978253.197825
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman travels to Great Britain to report the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's No. 633 Squadron is assigned to destroy it. The squadron is led by Wing Commander Roy Grant, an ex-Eagle Squadron pilot (U.S. fighter pilots serving in the RAF before America entered the war).
Kings of the Sun, 1h48
Directed by John Flynn, J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Actors Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter, Barry Morse, James Coburn
Roles Producer
Rating60% 3.049883.049883.049883.049883.04988
Balam (George Chakiris) is the son of the ruler of a Mayan tribe who use wooden swords (with obsidian edges). His father is killed in battle against metal-blade armed rivals led by Hunac Ceel (Leo Gordon). Balam succeeds to the throne, but is convinced by his advisers, including the head priest, to lead his followers away from the Yucatán, sail to the American Gulf Coast region, so they might regain their strength and fight again another day.
Gidget
Gidget (1959)
, 1h35
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Surfing films
Actors Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, Joby Baker, Tom Laughlin, Doug McClure
Roles Producer
Rating65% 3.2964653.2964653.2964653.2964653.296465
Frances Lawrence (Sandra Dee) is about to turn 17 years old and is on her summer break between her junior and senior years of high school. She resists the pressure to go "manhunting" with her girlfriends and laments the days when the girls had fun together without boys. Frances also rejects her parents wishing to fix her up on a date with the son of a friend of the family, Jeffrey Matthews.
The 27th Day, 1h15
Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Gene Barry, Valerie French, Jiří Voskovec, Arnold Moss, Stefan Schnabel, Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius Graf von Ledebur-Wicheln
Roles Executive Producer
Rating61% 3.050443.050443.050443.050443.05044
Five people, Englishwoman Evelyn Wingate, American reporter Jonathan Clark, Chinese peasant Su Tan, German physicist Klaus Bechner, and Soviet soldier Ivan Godofsky, are randomly transported to an alien spacecraft in Earth orbit. There, they are met by a humanoid referring to himself only as "The Alien" (Arnold Moss), who explains that he is the representative of a world orbiting a sun about to go Nova. Needing a new world to inhabit within the next 35 days, yet prohibited by their moral code from killing intelligent life, The Alien provides each of the five with sets of three capsules in a clear, round, hand-held case. Each capsule is capable of destroying all human life within a 3,000-mile diameter, with the expectation that humanity will use all the capsules, obliterating itself, leaving the Earth free for alien colonization. The capsules' clear containers can only be opened by the thought waves of the person to whom they were given. Once out in the open, the capsules inside can then be used by anyone, but only during the next 27 days, after which they become inert.
The Brothers Rico, 1h32
Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Crosby, James Darren, Larry Gates, Argentina Brunetti
Roles Producer
Rating67% 3.391983.391983.391983.391983.39198
Eddie Rico (Richard Conte) is the owner of a prosperous laundry company in Bayshore, Florida who was the former accountant for a major crime syndicate years ago. He has given up his ties to the syndicate, and hopes to adopt a child with his wife, Alice. When Eddie receives a call asking to give a job to Wesson (William Phipps), a junior mobster, and Alice becomes worried that the syndicate will attempt to bring Eddie back into a life of crime. Eddie calms her down, but then he receives a letter from his mother saying that his two brothers, Johnny (James Darren) and Gino (Paul Picerni), have disappeared. On the way to work, Gino finds Eddie and asks for his help in leaving the country: Gino admits to being the gunman for a gang killing and Johnny was the driver. Gino now believes the syndicate is after him, and he was ordered to St. Louis later that day. Eddie, who does not believe that the syndicate is after them, tells Gino to go to St. Louis and gives him some money. When Eddie returns to work, he finds out that the syndicate boss, "Uncle" Sid Kubik (Larry Gates), has ordered him to Miami. Eddie leaves despite his wife's objections that he will miss an adoption interview.
Over-Exposed, 1h20
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna, Raymond Greenleaf, Jack Albertson, Constance Towers, Isobel Elsom
Roles Producer
Rating60% 3.0438953.0438953.0438953.0438953.043895
Ambitious and vivacious Lily Krenshka is new in town, and is arrested for soliciting drinks and rolling drunks. She is told by the police to take the next bus out of town. Lily asks photographer Max West not to print her arrest photo. He offers to pay her for swimsuit poses, and, never one to overlook an opportunity, she learns the art of photography from him. After awhile, she sets out for New York to start a new career, changing her name to Lila Crane at Max's suggestion.