10 Facts About Filmways

Filmways, Inc was a television and film production company founded by American film executive Martin Ransohoff and Edwin Kasper in 1952.

Filmways acquired famous companies throughout the years, such as Heatter-Quigley Productions, Ruby-Spears Productions and American International Pictures.

Filmways was formed in 1952 by Martin Ransohoff and Edwin Kasper, who would part with Filmways five years later.

In 1959, Filmways entered the television sitcom arena in a big way when many executives of McCadden Productions joined Filmways following McCadden's Chapter 7 bankruptcy earlier the same year.

From 1962 until 1971, Filmways produced its biggest hit, The Beverly Hillbillies for CBS, created by Paul Henning, another former McCadden executive.

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Filmways housed studios in Manhattan at 246 East 127th Street, which were built for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1920s.

Filmways had lost nearly $20 million during the nine months ending in November 1981.

Filmways was then reincorporated as Orion Pictures Corporation on August 31,1982.

Filmways co-produced Eye Guess, The Face Is Familiar, Personality, and You're Putting Me On with Bob Stewart Productions.

Rights to nearly all movies Filmways co-produced with major studios have been retained by the studios that originally released them; 10 Rillington Place is owned by Columbia Pictures, Save the Tiger is owned by Paramount Pictures, Two-Minute Warning, is owned by Universal Studios, and so forth.