37 Facts About Harry Saltzman

1.

Herschel "Harry" Saltzman was a Canadian theatre and film producer.

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Harry Saltzman is best remembered for co-producing the first nine of the James Bond film series with Albert R Broccoli.

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Harry Saltzman lived most of his life in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Harry Saltzman was raised in Saint John, New Brunswick for the first seven years of his life.

5.

Harry Saltzman was 30 when he learned where he had actually been born.

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At about age 17, Harry Saltzman joined a circus and travelled with them for some years.

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In 1932, Harry Saltzman moved to Paris to study political science and economics.

8.

Harry Saltzman went to the West Coast to sign big picture names.

9.

Harry Saltzman sought the Ritz Brothers, but due to film commitments, they could not sign.

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In 1943, Harry Saltzman was managing The Gilbert Brothers' Combined Circus.

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Harry Saltzman received a medical discharge in Trenton, Ontario in 1943, and joined the US Psychological Warfare Bureau, because he wanted to get back to Europe.

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In 1945, Harry Saltzman helped Lin Yutang establish UNESCO's film division, which was initially focused on trying to mediate the Chinese Civil War between the Communist Party and the Kuomintang.

13.

Harry Saltzman eventually quit due to "east-west differences" which to him seemed "so hopeless".

14.

Harry Saltzman spent a year with the French government's Ministry of Reconstruction.

15.

Harry Saltzman worked as a talent scout for European productions on stage, television and in film, but gradually became more successful producing stage plays.

16.

Harry Saltzman moved to the United States in the 1950s.

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Harry Saltzman became production supervisor on Robert Montgomery Presents and produced Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion.

18.

Krantz's father liked Harry Saltzman and found him an entertaining conversationalist.

19.

Harry Saltzman entered the film business by producing The Iron Petticoat, a play adaptation.

20.

Harry Saltzman started Woodfall Film Productions with Tony Richardson and John Osborne, and produced other acclaimed social realism dramas such as 1959's Look Back in Anger and 1960's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

21.

Harry Saltzman attempted to make a film about Canadian Metis leader Cuthbert Grant.

22.

In 1969, Harry Saltzman borrowed 70 million Swiss francs from the Union Bank of Switzerland.

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In 1970, Harry Saltzman won control of the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation from chairman Patrick Frawley in a proxy fight.

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However, by 1972 Harry Saltzman reportedly had to sell off 370,000 shares of Technicolor stock to repay his loan from the Union Bank of Switzerland.

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At some point, Harry Saltzman defaulted on the interest payments to the Swiss Bank.

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Harry Saltzman unsuccessfully attempted to have the Swiss courts dissolve the company.

27.

Harry Saltzman had retained the firm to resolve his financial difficulties.

28.

Also in 1970, Harry Saltzman cancelled a planned film, several weeks before shooting was to begin, about the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, starring Rudolf Nureyev.

29.

Director Tony Richardson believed that Harry Saltzman had overextended himself, and did not have the funds to make the film.

30.

Harry Saltzman had long desired to produce a film on the life of Vaslav Nijinsky, based on biographies, the rights to which he had acquired in the 1960s.

31.

Harry Saltzman has an executive producer credit on the film Nijinsky in 1980, and the 1988 British-Italian-Yugoslavian co-production Time of the Gypsies.

32.

Harry Saltzman offered to introduce the two men, and arranged a meeting for the next morning.

33.

Harry Saltzman came close to rejecting Paul McCartney's submission for the soundtrack to Live and Let Die.

34.

Harry and Jacqueline Saltzman had three children: Hilary, Steven and Christopher.

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In March 1977, Harry Saltzman sold his English country mansion and moved full-time to St Petersburg.

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In 1982, Harry Saltzman sold his 15-room Venetian Isles, St Petersburg, Florida home, and moved back to London.

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Harry Saltzman died of a heart attack on September 28,1994, while visiting Paris.