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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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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
Oct 28, 2021 · Depending on your own personal taste (and which of his films you're watching), Sam Katzman is either a legendary or infamous figure in the movie industry. As a producer, he's responsible for over two hundred projects, almost all of them rooted in exploitation.
Sam Katzman is known as an Producer, Executive Producer, Production Manager, Director, Writer, Production Supervisor, Supervising Producer, Second Unit Director, and Presenter. Some of his work includes Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, It Came from Beneath the Sea, The Giant Claw, The Corpse Vanishes, The Werewolf, Invisible Ghost, Voodoo Man, and ...
The legendary “Jungle Sam” Katzman died August 4, 1973, at 72. At the end of Ch. 12 of “Hop Harrigan”, young Buzz Henry, flying out of a deep canyon, hits the edge of the mountain with the plane’s wings and dramatically cartwheels the plane!
An old-style Hollywood producer in the mid 20th century, Sam Katzman was a master of budget, helping to create and distribute a big portfolio of low-cost films that often made high...