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Hollywood. Occupation (s) Film producer and director. Years active. 1933–1973. Sam Katzman (July 7, 1901 – August 4, 1973) was an American film producer and director. Katzman's specialty was producing low-budget genre films, including serials, which had disproportionately high returns for the studios and his financial backers.
- July 7, 1901, New York City
- 1933–1973
- Film producer and director
- August 4, 1973 (aged 72), Hollywood
Sam Katzman (1901-1973) Sam Katzman. facet of film production before becoming a producer himself. Starting. imaginable. In the 1930s he turned out Tim McCoy westerns for Puritan and. films for AIP and Elvis Presley musicals for MGM. Due to a combination of. movies seldom if ever lost money.
- January 1, 1
- New York City, New York, USA
- January 1, 1
- Hollywood, California, USA
Sam Katzman. Producer: Amateur Crook. New York-born Sam Katzman entered the film industry as a prop boy at age 13, and worked his way up the ladder, learning virtually every facet of film production before becoming a producer himself. Starting out producing action/adventure serials (where he got the nickname "Jungle Sam"), Katzman's output encompassed virtually every genre imaginable. In the ...
- July 7, 1901
- August 4, 1973
Sam Katzman is known as an Producer, Executive Producer, Director, Production Manager, Second Unit Director, Production Supervisor, and Writer. Some of his work includes Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, It Came from Beneath the Sea, The Giant Claw, The Corpse Vanishes, The Werewolf, Invisible Ghost, Voodoo Man, and The Ape Man.
- CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN. RUNNING TIME: 69 mins. Gangster Jim Hennesy and District Attorney McGraw are brutally murdered by a super-strong man who’s impervious to bullets, before returning to his controllers, crime lord Frank Buchanan and scientist Wilhelm Steigg.
- THE WEREWOLF [1956] RUNNING TIME: 80 mins. In Mountaincrest, a stranger who’s lost his memory has a drink in a bar then turns into a wolf to kill local thug Joe Mitchell who tried to rob him as well as wounding Deputy Ben Clovey.
- ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU [1957] RUNNING TIME: 69 mins. Jan Peters returns to the home of her grandmother on the African island of Mora Tau. At the same time, a salvage expedition led by tycoon George Harrison, his wife, Mona, and deep-sea diver Jeff Clark arrives to recover a cache of diamonds that was sunken offshore aboard the Susan B sixty years ago.
- THE GIANT CLAW [1957] RUNNING TIME: 70 mins. Civil aeronautical engineer Mitch MacAfee, while engaged in a radar test flight near the North Pole, spots an unidentified flying object.
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KATZMAN, SAM (1901–1973), U.S. motion picture producer. Born in New York, Katzman entered the film industry as a prop boy at age 13 and worked his way up, learning virtually every aspect of film production before becoming a producer himself. A prolific producer, his more than 230 films (between 1934 and 1974) ran the gamut as well, starting ...
