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Val Lewton (May 7, 1904 – March 14, 1951) was a Ukrainian-American novelist, film producer and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s. His son, also named Val Lewton, was a painter and exhibition designer.
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I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 American horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Pictures.
Oct 4, 2019 · No stranger to doing things quickly (he wrote his pulp novels by checking into cheap hotel rooms for a weekend), Lewton produced nine such films for RKO (eleven overall) in a four-year period that began in 1942, starting with Cat People, followed by I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man, and culminating in Bedlam.
May 24, 2024 · Val Lewton [1904-1951] the Famed RKO Producer from golden age of Hollywood. Last Update: May 24, 2024. About Val Lewton. Born May 7, 1904 in Yalta, Russia (now part of Ukraine) – Died March 14, 1951 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
Val Lewton. Producer: The Body Snatcher. Born in Russian Empire in 1904, Lewton moved with his mother and sister to Berlin in 1906, then to USA in 1909.
Born Vladimir Leventon on May 7, 1904 Russian. Died March 14, 1951 in Los Angeles, California - United States. Who was Val Lewton? Lewton's fame in the 21st century rests upon his string of eleven films for RKO from 1942-1946, which is but a fraction of time out of his whole creative career.
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