Ivan Tors started a Miami-based film studio now known as Greenwich Studios, and later a music company.
16 Facts About Ivan Tors
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Ivan Tors wrote several plays in his native country before moving to the United States just prior to World War II.
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Ivan Tors arrived with his brother Ervin in July 1939 on the SS Hansa and had come to study at Fordham University in New York City.
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Ivan Tors subsequently enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps then transferred to the Office of Strategic Services.
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Ivan Tors began his partnership with his fellow Hungarian Andrew Marton with this film, reusing much of Marton's footage from Demon of the Himalayas.
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Long interested in fact-based science fiction, often with an underwater setting, Ivan Tors partnered with actor Richard Carlson in the 1950s to create A-Men Films, a production company devoted to making films about its own fictitious exploits.
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Under the A-Men banner, Ivan Tors wrote and produced The Magnetic Monster reusing footage from the 1934 German film Gold.
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Ivan Tors created the underwater action and adventure series Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges, and The Aquanauts, starring Keith Larsen, Jeremy Slate, and Ron Ely, which was later renamed Malibu Run.
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Ivan Tors created NBC's science fiction series The Man and the Challenge, starring George Nader and Jack Ging and was the executive producer of the skydiving action and adventure series Ripcord, starring Larry Pennell and Ken Curtis.
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Ivan Tors produced two Korean War films, Battle Taxi and Underwater Warrior.
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Ivan Tors appeared as himself on the February 14,1966 episode of the CBS game show To Tell the Truth.
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Ivan Tors was the executive producer of MGM Television's 1967 TV series Off to See the Wizard for ABC.
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Ivan Tors' studio filmed Soupy Sales' film debut in Birds Do It.
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Ivan Tors was married to film actress Constance Dowling from 1955 until her death in 1969.
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Ivan Tors died 14 years later, eight days before his 67th birthday.
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Ivan Tors died in Mato Grosso, Brazil, where he was scouting a new television series.