James C. Katz

{{short description|American film producer}}

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James C. Katz is an American film historian and preservationist who has restored and reconstructed a number of classic films. Though he began his career as a film producer, he concentrated his attention on preserving existing films.

His film preservation projects include: Spartacus, My Fair Lady, and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Rear Window.{{cite book|last=Pfeiffer|first=Lee|title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ZAKd3Q7unUC&pg=PT265|accessdate=3 July 2011|date=2006-11-07|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-1-59257-557-2|pages=265–}} He frequently collaborates with Bob O'Neil and Robert A. Harris, with whom he shared the King Vidor Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2000 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.[https://slofilmfest.org/festival/history/ History of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival]. In: slofilmfest.org, access date February 15, 2022.