Alexander Salkind

In November 1974, after a long difficult process with DC Comics, the Superman film rights were purchased by Ilya and father Alexander Salkind and Pierre Spengler. DC wanted a list of actors that were to be considered for Superman. They...

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...made by Columbia Pictures. Boom in the Moon marked the first solo producer credit enjoyed by Alexander Salkind (1921-1997). The Gdansk, Poland-born Salkind, the son of film producer Michael Salkind, fled Nazi-controlled Europe with his...

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...the menacing presence original director Richard Donner wanted for the Kryptonian outcasts. O'Halloran has criticized Alexander and Ilya Salkind, the producers of the Superman films, for their mishandling of the franchise, believing that...

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...John Lithgow. It is the last major fantasy film produced by the Paris-based father-and-son production team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind. The film was directed by Jeannot Szwarc and released in North America on November 27, 1985 by Tri-Star...

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...them. Then there is an explosion and the smoke from the dynamite billows into the air. In 1960, Welles was approached by producer Alexander Salkind to make a film from a public domain literary choice. Salkind promised that Welles would have...

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Alexander Salkind (June 2, 1921 - March 8, 1997) was the second of three generations of successful international film producers. Born in Freistadt Danzig, his family moved to France where his father, Michael Salkind worked as a film...

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...of Superboy at the start of the third season. The Superboy series was brought to the screen by executive producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind, the producers of the first three Superman movies and the 1984 Supergirl '' movie. This series and...

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...'s Supergirl '', have been expanded somewhat for network and syndicated television. This was originally the result of the Alexander and Ilya Salkind (the producers of the first three films starring Reeve, as well as ''Supergirl) charging TV...

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...film. Richard Lester finished with II and returned for Superman III. Upon gaining the rights for Superman, Alexander Salkind and his son, Ilya Salkind, had also purchased the rights to the character of Supergirl, which resullted in the 1984...

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...for his contributions to the live-action Superman films of the 1970s and 80s alongside his father, Alexander Salkind. At the age of one, Salkind was photographed sitting on the lap of Zsa Zsa Gabor. His grandfather, Mikhail Salkind, was one...

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