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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.
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.
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- 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.
- July 7, 1901
- August 4, 1973
“Later in life, I was working with a CBS TV station in Las Vegas for a couple of years as program production manager. Sam and his wife Hortense—they called her Hortie—bright red hair.…My wife went upstairs with her while Sam and I were in the lobby of a casino…he was gambling and I was watching.
Escape from San Quentin is a 1957 American film noir crime film produced by Sam Katzman, directed by Fred F. Sears, and starring Johnny Desmond, Merry Anders and Richard Devon. [1] Plot. Mike Gilbert is doing time at San Quentin prison in California.
Sam Katzman (July 7, 1901 – August 4, 1973) was an American film producer and director. Born into a poor Jewish family, Katzman went to work as a stage laborer at the age of 13 in the fledgling East Coast film industry.
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She is married to Dr. Scott Katzman, an orthopedic surgeon, who has been performing cutting edge, minimally invasive spinal surgery in Florida for many years. The couple has two young children. In her free time, she enjoys traveling the world with her family.
