Marvin Mirisch
{{short description|American film producer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2013}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Marvin Mirisch
| image =
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| birth_name = Marvin Eliot Mirisch
| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|3|19|}}
| birth_place = New York City, New York U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|11|17|1918|3|19}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| occupation = Film producer
| spouse = {{marriage|Florence Smuckler|1942}}
| children = 3
| relatives = Walter Mirisch (brother)
Harold Mirisch (half-brother)
John A. Mirisch (half-great-nephew)
}}
Marvin Eliot Mirisch (March 19, 1918 – November 17, 2002) was an American film producer.
Biography
Mirisch was born to a Jewish family[https://jewishjournal.com/funerals/article/marvin_mirisch_20021129/ Jewish Journal: "Marvin Mirisch - Mirisch Motion Picture Production Company Co-Founder, Dies at 84"] November 28, 2002 on March 19, 1918, in New York City,[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3rGCwAAQBAJ&dq=marvin+mirisch+march+1918&pg=PA213 Obituaries in the Performing Arts] one of two sons born to Josephine Frances (née Urbach) and Max Mirisch.Douglas Martin, [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/20/arts/marvin-mirisch-84-hollywood-producer-of-60-s.html Marvin Mirisch, 84, Hollywood Producer of 60's], The New York Times, November 20, 2002{{Cite web|last=Mirisch |first= Walter |author-link= |title=I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|date= |url=http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/servlet/DCARead?standardNo=9780299226404&standardNoType=1&excerpt=true |accessdate=October 7, 2018}} His father emigrated from Kraków in 1891 at the age of 17 arriving in New York City where he worked as a tailor. His mother was the daughter of immigrants from Hungary and Poland. His father was previously married to Flora Glasshut with whom he had two sons; she died of cancer at the age of 40. He was the brother of Walter Mirisch and the half-brother of Harold Mirisch, who were also film executives; and the half-brother of Irving Mirisch, who ran a company which supplied candy to movie theatres.
Career
In 1953, he moved to Los Angeles to join his brothers Harold and Walter at Monogram Pictures, later known as Allied Artists. In 1957, they founded The Mirisch Company, one of the leading independent production companies. He was the executive producer of the movies Romantic Comedy (1983) and Dracula (1979). He was associate producer for The Human Jungle and Arrow in the Dust (both 1954).
Personal life and death
Mirisch was married to Florene Smuckler{{Cite web|last= |first= |author-link= |title=Florene S. Mirisch |work=Los Angeles Times|date= August 22, 2006|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=florene-s-mirisch&pid=18968438 |accessdate=}} for 60 years; they had three children: Donald I. Mirisch;[https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/donald-mirisch-obituary?id=8166410 Los Angeles Times: "Donald I Marisch Obituary] August 1, 2014 Carol Mirisch Hartmann, and Lynn Mirisch Rogo. He died of a heart attack on November 17, 2002, in Los Angeles, at the age of 84. He was buried in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery in Culver City, California.[https://books.google.com/books?id=RVV6seGmgmkC&dq=marvin+mirisch+hillside+memorial&pg=PA57 Forever LA] His great-nephew, John A. Mirisch has served as the mayor of Beverly Hills, California, since March 2013.[https://reelectmirisch.com/bio.html John A. Mirisch's campaign website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130416164742/http://reelectmirisch.com/bio.html |date=April 16, 2013 }}
References
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External links
- {{Cite web|last= |first= |author-link= |title= Mirisch family tree |publisher=University of California|date= |url= https://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/genealogy/Krakow/Families/Mirisch.html |accessdate=}}
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Category:Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Category:Film producers from California
Category:20th-century American Jews