Menahem Golan

{{Short description|Israeli film director and producer (1929–2014)}}

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| name = Menahem Golan

| native_name = מנחם גולן

| native_name_lang = he

| image = Menahem Golan 034 edited.jpg

| caption =

| birth_name = Menachem Globus{{cite web | url=https://www.ishim.co.il/p.php?s=מנחם_גולן | title=מנחם גולן |website=ishim.co.il }}

| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|5|31}}

| birth_place = Tiberias, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|8|8|1929|5|31|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel

| death_cause =

| employer =

| occupation = Director, producer

| alias = Joseph Goldman

| successor =

| spouse = Rachel Golan

| children = 3

| nationality = Israeli

| known_for = Founder of Golan-Globus/The Cannon Group

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Menahem Golan ({{langx|he|מנחם גולן}}; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014, originally Menachem Globus) was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid-budget American films, primarily genre films, during the 1980s after Golan and Globus had achieved significant filmmaking success in the colony of Israel during the 1970s.{{cite news |title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Golan Quits Cannon Group To Form His Own Company |work=The New York Times |date=1 March 1989 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/01/business/the-media-business-golan-quits-cannon-group-to-form-his-own-company.html?scp=2&sq=Cannon%20Films&st=cse |access-date=8 August 2010|first=Geraldine |last=Fabrikant}}

Golan produced films featuring actors such as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and for a period, was known as a producer of comic book-style films like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Captain America, and his aborted attempt to bring Spider-Man to the silver screen. Golan also wrote and polished numerous film scripts under the pen name Joseph Goldman.Ronald Grover. [https://web.archive.org/web/20020421042136/http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2002/nf20020415_7441.htm "Unraveling Spider-Man's Tangled Web". Business Week (April 15, 2002).] Retrieved on 2007-01-22. At the time of his death, Golan had produced over 200 films, directed 44, and won 8 "Kinor David" awards as well as "Israel Prize" in Cinema. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for Franco Zeffirelli's Otello.

Early life

Born Menachem Globus in Tiberias in then British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel), his parents were Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. He spent his early years in Tiberias, then studied directing at the Old Vic School and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and filmmaking at New York University. During the Israeli War of Independence, Golan served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force.

Film career

File:Menahem Golan awarded Kinor David 1964.jpg

Golan started as an apprentice at Habima Theater in Tel Aviv. After completing his studies in theater direction, he staged plays in Israel. He gained experience as a filmmaker by working as an assistant to Roger Corman.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Gi-Ha/Golan-Menahem-and-Yoram-Globus.html |title=Writers and Production Artists: Menachem Golan |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=19 October 2010}}

Golan is probably best known as a director for his film Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan, 1977), about the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. He also produced Eskimo Limon (Lemon Popsicle, 1978), a film that spawned many sequels and an American remake, The Last American Virgin (1982).

An adaptation of the Isaac Bashevis Singer novel The Magician of Lublin (1979) was followed by the musical The Apple (1980). An unusual moral fable with a rock-disco soundtrack, The Apple routinely appears on lists of all-time-worst movies, earning it cult film status.{{cite book |last=Wingrove |first=David |title=Science Fiction Film Source Book |publisher=Longman Group Limited |year=1985}}

Golan's production company The Cannon Group produced a long line of films during the 1980s and early 1990s, including Delta Force, Runaway Train, and some of the Death Wish sequels. In 1986, Cannon was taken over by Pathe Communications. Golan produced several comic book-style movies in the last half of the 1980s, most notably Masters of the Universe, based on the Mattel toy line of the same name and inspired by the comics of Jack Kirby.{{cite web |last=Cronin |first=Brian |url=http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/11/02/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-75/ |website=comicbookresources.com |title=Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #75 |date=2 November 2006 |access-date=8 June 2009 |archive-date=10 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410014654/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/11/02/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-75/ |url-status=dead }} In 1987, Cannon gained infamy after its UK-based production of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace performed poorly at the box office, received mixed to negative reviews from critics and provoked a negative backlash from fans. Golan resigned from Cannon in 1989, and by 1993 the company had folded. After Cannon's collapse, Golan became head of 21st Century Film Corporation and produced several low to medium-budget films.

Golan planned to shoot Spider-Man: The Movie in 1986 at both Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom and on location in Tel Aviv, Israel. Dolph Lundgren, who played He-Man in Masters of the Universe was envisioned for the role of the Green Goblin, and Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee was approached to make a cameo appearance in the film as J. Jonah Jameson.{{cite journal |last=Jankiewicz |first=Pat |title=Scott Leva, the Man Who Was Almost Spider-Man |journal=Starlog/Comics Scene Presents Spider-Man 1 |number=1 |pages=62–64 |date=July 2002}} Golan struggled for years to produce the film and finally failed when 21st Century Film Corporation filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors in 1996 (along with Carolco Pictures, another company that had agreed to help finance the film). Sony Pictures eventually purchased the rights to the Marvel Comics character and released a Spider-Man film in 2002, directed by Sam Raimi. That year, Golan released his adaptation of Crime and Punishment.

Personal life

Golan was married to Rachel (1930-2015), a makeup artist. Together, they had three daughters, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Ruth Golan (born 1953), Naomi (1958-2015) and Yael (born 1964). His cousin was Israeli-American producer Yoram Globus.{{Cite web |date=13 August 2014 |title=Remembering Israeli Movie Mogul Menahem Golan |url=https://forward.com/schmooze/204049/remembering-israeli-movie-mogul-menahem-golan/}}

Death

Whilst visiting Jaffa, Tel Aviv, with family members on the morning of August 8, 2014, Golan collapsed.{{cite web |date=August 8, 2014 |title=Menahem Golan, Producer of 1980s Action Movies, Dies at 85 |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/news/menahem-golan-producer-1980s-action-movies-dies-85-210106837.html |access-date=August 9, 2014 |publisher=Yahoo.com}} He lost consciousness, and attempts to resuscitate him failed. He was 85 years old.{{cite news |last=Natale |first=Richard |date=8 August 2014 |title=Menachem Golan, Who Headed Cannon Films, Dies at 85 |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/menachem-golan-who-headed-cannon-films-dies-at-85-1201278731/}}

Filmography

class="wikitable"
rowspan="2" | Year

! rowspan="2" | Title

! colspan="3" | Functioned as

! rowspan="2" | Director

! rowspan="2" | Notes

width=65 | Director

! width=65 | Writer

! width=65 | Producer

1963

| El Dorado

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

| directorial debut

rowspan="3" |1964

| Sallah Shabati

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Ephraim Kishon

| Winner of Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, nominated Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Eight in the Footstep of One

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

| (original title: Shemona B'Ekevot Ahat)

Dalia and the Sailors

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

| (original title: Dalia Vehamalahim)

1965

| Trunk to Cairo

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

| (original title: Einer spielt falsch

1966

| Fortuna

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

| (English title: Seduced in Sodom)

1967

| Aliza Mizrahi

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

| (English title: 999 Aliza: The Policeman)

rowspan="3" |1968

| Tevye and His Seven Daughters

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Topele

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

| (original title: Nes B'Ayara)

Commandos

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Story}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

| a.k.a. Sullivan's Marauders

rowspan="2" |1969

| What's Good for the Goose

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

|

My Margo

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

| (original title: Margo Sheli)

rowspan="2" |1970

| Lupo!

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Attack at Dawn

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

| (original title: Ha-Pritza Hagdola)

rowspan="2" |1971

| The Highway Queen

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

The Contract

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

| (original title: Katz V'Carasso)

rowspan="3" |1972

| I Love You Rosa

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Moshé Mizrahi

| Nominated Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Escape to the Sun

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

The Great Telephone Robbery

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

| (original title: Shod Hatelephonim Hagadol)

rowspan="3" |1973

| The House on Chelouche Street

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Moshé Mizrahi

| Nominated Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Kazablan

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Daughters, Daughters

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Moshé Mizrahi

| (original title: Abu el Banat)

rowspan="3" |1975

| The Four Deuces

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| William H. Bushnell

|

Diamonds

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

| a.k.a. Diamond Shaft

Lepke

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

rowspan="4" |1976

| The Passover Plot

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Executive}}

| Michael Campus

|

Tzanani Family

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

| (original title: Mishpahat Tzan'ani)

Lupo Goes to New York

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

| A sequel to Lupo!

God's Gun

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Gianfranco Parolini

| (original title: Diamante Lobo)

rowspan="2" |1977

| Operation Thunderbolt

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

| Nominated Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Kid Vengeance

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Joseph Manduke

|

rowspan="4" |1978

| Lemon Popsicle

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

|

The Uranium Conspiracy

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

The Alaska Wilderness Adventure

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Fred Meader

|

It's a Funny, Funny World

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Tzvi Shissel

| (original title: Yisraelim Matzhikim)

rowspan="5" |1979

| The Swap

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Jordan Leondopoulos

| Re-edited from Sam's Song

Lemon Popsicle 2: Going Steady

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

| First sequel to Lemon Popsicle

My Mother the General

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Joel Silberg

|

The Magician of Lublin

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Marriage Tel Aviv Style

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Joel Silberg

| (original title: Nisuin Nusah Tel Aviv)

rowspan="7" |1980

| The Godsend

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Executive}}

| Gabrielle Beaumont

|

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Alan Roberts

| Final sequel to The Happy Hooker

Schizoid

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| David Paulsen

|

Seed of Innocence

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

|

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Charles B. Griffith

|

The Apple

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

New Year's Evil

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Emmett Alston

|

rowspan="5" |1981

| Hot Bubblegum: Lemon Popsicle 3

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

| Second sequel to Lemon Popsicle

Deathhouse

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Theodore Gershuny

|

Body and Soul

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| George Bowers

|

Enter the Ninja

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Hospital Massacre

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

| a.k.a. X-Ray

rowspan="6" |1982

| Private Popsicle: Lemon Popsicle 4

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

| Third sequel to Lemon Popsicle

Death Wish II

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Michael Winner

|

Lady Chatterley's Lover

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Just Jaeckin

|

The Last American Virgin

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

| Remake of Lemon Popsicle

That Championship Season

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Jason Miller

|

Mute Love

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Joel Silberg

| a.k.a. The Secret of Yolanda

rowspan="11" |1983

| Private Manoeuvres

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Tzvi Shissel

| Spin-off of Lemon Popsicle and Private Popsicle: Lemon Popsicle 4

The Seven Magnificent Gladiators

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Bruno Mattei

|

Treasure of the Four Crowns

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Ferdinando Baldi

|

One More Chance

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Sam Firstenberg

|

10 to Midnight

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| J. Lee Thompson

|

Nana, the True Key of Pleasure

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Dan Wolman

|

House of the Long Shadows

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Pete Walker

|

Hercules

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Luigi Cozzi

|

Young Warriors

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Lawrence D. Foldes

|

Revenge of the Ninja

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Story}}

| {{yes}}

| Sam Firstenberg

| Sequel to Enter the Ninja

The Wicked Lady

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Michael Winner

| Remake of The Wicked Lady

rowspan="18" |1984

| Baby Love: Lemon Popsicle 5

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Dan Wolman

| Sequel Lemon Popsicle

The Big Tease: Here Comes Another One

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Yehuda Barkan and Yigal Shilon

|

Over the Brooklyn Bridge

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Sahara

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Story}}

| {{yes}}

| Andrew V. McLaglen

|

Breakin'

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Joel Silberg

|

Making the Grade

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Dorian Walker

|

Night Soldier

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Dan Wolman

|

The Naked Face

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Bryan Forbes

|

Ordeal by Innocence

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Desmond Davis

|

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes, the Man and His Work

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Michael Ventura

|

Sword of the Valiant

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Stephen Weeks

|

Love Streams

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| John Cassavetes

|

Bolero

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| John Derek

|

Exterminator 2

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Mark Buntzman

|

Ninja III: The Domination

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Sam Firstenberg

| Second sequel to Enter the Ninja

Forced Testimony

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Raphael Rebibo

|

Missing in Action

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Joseph Zito

|

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Sam Firstenberg

| Sequel to Breakin'

rowspan="25" |1985

| Up Your Anchor: Lemon Popsicle 6

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Dan Wolman

| Sequel Lemon Popsicle

Maria's Lovers

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Andrei Konchalovsky

|

Hot Resort

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| John Robins

|

The Ambassador

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| J. Lee Thompson

|

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Lance Hool

|

Déjà Vu

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Anthony B. Richmond

|

The Assisi Underground

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Alexander Ramati

|

Rappin'

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Joel Silberg

|

Grace Quigley

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Anthony Harvey

|

Hot Chili

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| William Sachs

| screenplay credited as Joseph Goldman

Lifeforce

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Tobe Hooper

|

Thunder Alley

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| J. S. Cardone

|

Salomè

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Claude d'Anna

|

American Ninja

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Sam Firstenberg

|

Mata Hari

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Curtis Harrington

|

Hard Rock Zombies

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Krishna Shah

|

War and Love

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Moshé Mizrahi

|

Invasion U.S.A.

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Joseph Zito

|

The Adventures of Hercules

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Luigi Cozzi

| Sequel to Hercules

The Berlin Affair

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Liliana Cavani

|

Death Wish 3

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Michael Winner

|

King Solomon's Mines

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| J. Lee Thompson

|

Aladdin

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Bruno Corbucci

|

Fool for Love

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Robert Altman

|

Runaway Train

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Andrei Konchalovsky

|

rowspan="21" |1986

| The Lover

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Michal Bat-Adam

|

Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Lina Wertmüller

|

The Delta Force

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

The Naked Cage

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Paul Nicholas

|

Field of Honor

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Kim Dae-hie and Hans Scheepmaker

|

America 3000

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| David Engelbach

|

P.O.W. the Escape

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Gideon Amir

|

Murphy's Law

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| J. Lee Thompson

|

Pirates

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Roman Polanski

|

Dangerously Close

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Albert Pyun

|

Cobra

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| George P. Cosmatos

|

Invaders from Mars

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Tobe Hooper

|

Lightning, the White Stallion

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| William A. Levey

|

Detective School Dropouts

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Filippo Ottoni

| a.k.a. Dumb Dicks

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Tobe Hooper

|

Otello

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Franco Zeffirelli

|

Avenging Force

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Sam Firstenberg

|

52 Pick-Up

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| John Frankenheimer

|

Castaway

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Nicolas Roeg

|

Firewalker

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| J. Lee Thimpson

|

Duet for One

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Andrei Konchalovsky

|

rowspan="32" |1987

| Young Love: Lemon Popsicle 7

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Walter Bannert

| Sequel Lemon Popsicle

Million Dollar Madness

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Naftali Alter

|

Dutch Treat

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

|

Assassination

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Peter R. Hunt

|

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Gary Nelson

| Sequel to King Solomon's Mines

The Assault

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Fons Rademakers

| Won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Over the Top

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Number One with a Bullet

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Jack Smight

|

The Barbarians

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Ruggero Deodato

|

Down Twisted

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Albert Pyun

|

Street Smart

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Jerry Schatzberg

|

The Hanoi Hilton

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Lionel Chetwynd

|

Beauty and the Beast

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Eugene Marner

|

Rumpelstiltskin

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| David Irving

|

American Ninja 2: The Confrontation

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Sam Firstenberg

| Sequel to American Ninja

Diary of a Mad Old Man

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Lili Rademakers

|

The Emperor's New Clothes

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| David Irving

|

Too Much

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Éric Rochat

|

Three Kinds of Heat

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Leslie Stevens

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Sleeping Beauty

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| David Irving

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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Sidney J. Furie

|

Masters of the Universe

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Gary Goddard

|

Penitentiary III

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Jamaa Fanaka

|

Mascara

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Patrick Conrad

|

King Lear

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Jean-Luc Godard

|

Tough Guys Don't Dance

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Norman Mailer

|

Dancers

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Herbert Ross

|

Surrender

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Jerry Belson

|

Barfly

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Barbet Schroeder

|

Business as Usual

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Lezli-An Barrett

|

Under Cover

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| John Stockwell

|

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| J. Lee Thompson

|

rowspan="20" |1988

| Summertime Blues: Lemon Popsicle VIII

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Reinhard Schwabenitzky

|

Braddock: Missing in Action III

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Aaron Norris

|

Going Bananas

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

|

Alien from L.A.

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Albert Pyun

|

Bloodsport

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Newt Arnold

|

Appointment with Death

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Michael Winner

|

Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Godfrey Reggio

|

Shy People

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Andrei Konchalovsky

|

Salsa

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Boaz Davidson

|

The Frog Prince

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Jackson Hunsicker

|

Puss in Boots

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Eugene Marner

|

Journey to the Center of the Earth

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Rusty Lemorande and Albert Pyun

|

Hero and the Terror

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| William Tannen

|

Messenger of Death

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| J. Lee Thompson

|

Doin' Time on Planet Earth

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Charles Matthau

|

Platoon Leader

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Aaron Norris

|

Evil Angels

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Fred Schepisi

|

Hanna's War

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Hansel and Gretel

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Len Talan

|

Haunted Summer

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Ivan Passer

|

rowspan="9" |1989

| Snow White

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Michael Berz

|

Manifesto

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Dušan Makavejev

|

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| J. Lee Thompson

|

Red Riding Hood

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Adam Brooks

|

Cyborg

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

Albert Pyun

|

Caged Fury

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Bill Milling

|

Mack the Knife

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Masque of the Red Death

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Alan Birkinshaw

|

The Black Cat

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Luigi Cozzi

|

rowspan="7" |1990

| Night of the Living Dead

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Tom Savini

|

The Forbidden Dance

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Story}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Greydon Clark

|

Bad Jim

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Clyde Ware

|

The Appointed

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Daniel Wachsmann

|

The 5th Monkey

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

Éric Rochat

|

Captain America

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Albert Pyun

|

Bullseye!

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Michael Winner

|

rowspan="3" |1991

| Naked Robot 4 1/2

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Philip J. Cook

|

Virgin High

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Richard Gabai

|

Killing Streets

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Story}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Stephen Cornwell

|

rowspan="7" |1992

| Hit the Dutchman

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

The Finest Hour

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Shimon Dotan

|

Mad Dog Coll

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Greydon Clark

|

Dance Macabre (film)

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Greydon Clark

|

Hot Under the Collar

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Richard Gabai

|

Desert Kickboxer

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Isaac Florentine

|

Three Days to a Kill

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Fred Williamson

|

rowspan="7" |1993

| Silent Victim

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Deadly Heroes

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Midnight Witness

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Peter Foldy

|

Rage

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Anthony Maharaj

|

Emmanuelle 7

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Francis Leroi

|

Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| John Shepphird

|

Dead Center

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Story}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Steve Carver

|

rowspan="2" |1994

| Death Wish V: The Face of Death

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Allan A. Goldstein

|

Stickfighter

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| BJ Davis

|

rowspan="2" |1995

| Russian Roulette: Moscow 95

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Luise and the Jackpot

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

|

1996

| {{ill|Superbrain (film)|de|3=Die Tunnelgangster von Berlin|lt=Superbrain}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

|

rowspan="3" |1998

| Lima: Breaking the Silence

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Armstrong

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

The Versace Murder

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Menahem Golan

|

1999

| Speedway Junky

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

| Nickolas Perry

|

2001

| Death Game

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

rowspan="2" |2002

| Crime and Punishment

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Return from India

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

2003

| Final Combat

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

2005

| Days of Love

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

rowspan="2" |2007

| A Dangerous Dance

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

Children of Wax

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Ivan Nitchev

|

2008

| Marriage Arrangement

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| Menahem Golan

|

2009

| Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!!

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Evgeny Afineevsky

|

Awards and recognition

  • 1978: Nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Operation Thunderbolt{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1978|title=The 50th Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners|access-date=16 June 2012|work=oscars.org}}
  • 1984: Won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Bolero
  • 1986: Nomination for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Cobra
  • 1987: Nomination for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Tough Guys don't dance
  • In 1999, Golan was awarded the Israel Prize for his contribution to cinema.{{cite web|title=Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1999 (in Hebrew)|url=http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/TashnagTashsab/TASNAG_TASNAT_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashnat|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921103840/http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/TashnagTashsab/TASNAG_TASNAT_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashnat|archive-date=21 September 2011}}
  • In 1994 Golan was awarded the Ophir Prize of the Israeli Film Academy for his Lifetime Achievement.
  • The movie theater in the Azrieli building in Tel Aviv bore the name of the Golan-Globus company. It was closed in 2008.

See also

References

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