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Hecht won the Academy Award for Best Picture ("Marty") in 1956 and produced the box office hits "Vera Cruz" and "Trapeze," the cult classic "Sweet Smell of Success," the award-winning "Separate Tables" and "Birdman of Alcatraz" and the wildly popular Western comedy, "Cat Ballou".
- Producer, Additional Crew, Director
- May 26, 1985
- June 1, 1907
Harold Hecht filmography. Harold Hecht (1907–1985) was an Academy Award -winning Hollywood film producer, dance director and film director. He was also a talent agent, a literary agent, a theatrical producer, a theatre director and a Broadway actor. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Screen Producers ...
YearFilmProduction CompanyDistribution Company1948Norma Productions / Harold Hecht ...Universal - International Pictures1950Norma Productions / Frank Ross ...1951Norma Productions / Halburt Productions1952Norma Productions / Halburt ProductionsMay 28, 1985 · Hecht came to Hollywood in the early 19305, where with the help of friend Busby Berkeley, he became a dance director, working on classics like the Marx Brothers' “Horse Feathers" and Mae West’s “She Done Him Wrong ” After a brief World War II Army stint.
Hecht went on to produce five films without Lancaster's assistance, through his company Harold Hecht Films Productions between 1961 and 1967, including another Academy Award winner, Cat Ballou, starring Lee Marvin and Jane Fonda.
Harold Hecht is known as an Producer, Executive Producer, Choreographer, Actor, Director, and Presenter. Some of his work includes Sweet Smell of Success, Marty, Birdman of Alcatraz, Cat Ballou, The Unforgiven, Run Silent, Run Deep, The Crimson Pirate, and Apache.
Edit. Hecht was one of four people sent to the Soviet Union by President Eisenhower in 1959, as part of a cultural exchange program. Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 378-380. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. Married Gloria Buzzell in 1947, divorced 1960.
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Harold Hecht (1907–1985) was an Academy Award-winning Hollywood film producer, dance director and film director. He was also a talent agent, a literary agent, a theatrical producer, a theatre director and a Broadway actor.
