Harve Bennett entered the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated from their film school.
13 Facts About Harve Bennett
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Harve Bennett served in the Military Police Corps, based at the United States Disciplinary Barracks in Lompoc, California.
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Harve Bennett was honorably discharged in 1955 with the rank of corporal.
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Harve Bennett first worked at CBS in New York City and later moved to the programming department of ABC, becoming Vice President of Daytime Programming.
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Harve Bennett then moved to Columbia Pictures Television where he continued as a television producer, along with MGM TV employee Harris Katleman, which was joint partner from 1977 to 1980.
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In 1980, only a few weeks into his contract with Paramount, Harve Bennett was called to a meeting with then top executives of Paramount Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, along with Charles Bluhdorn who was then head of Paramount's parent Gulf+Western.
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When Harve Bennett said that he could, Bluhdorn said "do it" and he was hired.
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Harve Bennett was particularly drawn to the episode "Space Seed" which featured Ricardo Montalban as the genetically enhanced supervillain Khan Noonien Singh.
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Harve Bennett's idea formed the beginnings of what would become The Wrath of Khan.
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Nicholas Meyer was later introduced to Harve Bennett and completed the final drafts of the script, in addition to directing the film with Harve Bennett as executive producer and Robert Sallin as producer.
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Harve Bennett co-created and produced the science-fiction television series Time Trax, and produced the animated miniseries Invasion America, for which Nimoy was a voice actor.
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Harve Bennett died on February 25,2015, in Medford, Oregon, due to a burst embolism in his small intestine and a second one found in his lung.
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Harve Bennett's death occurred two days before that of Leonard Nimoy.