17 Facts About Menahem Golan

Menahem Golan was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director.

Menahem Golan was best known for co-owning The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus.

Menahem Golan produced films featuring actors such as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and for a period, was known as a producer of comic book-style films like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Captain America, and his aborted attempt to bring Spider-Man to the silver screen.

Menahem Golan wrote and "polished" numerous film scripts under the pen name Joseph Goldman.

At the time of his death, Menahem Golan had produced over 200 films, directed 44, and won 8 "Kinor David" awards as well as "Israel Prize" in Cinema.

Menahem Golan was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for Franco Zeffirelli's Otello.

Menahem Golan spent his early years in Tiberias, then studied directing at the Old Vic School and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and filmmaking at New York University.

Menahem Golan started as an apprentice at Habima Theater in Tel Aviv.

Menahem Golan gained experience as a filmmaker by working as an assistant to Roger Corman.

Menahem Golan is probably best known as a director for his film Operation Thunderbolt, about the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda.

Menahem Golan produced Eskimo Limon, a film that spawned many sequels and an American remake, The Last American Virgin.

Menahem Golan produced several comic book-style movies in the last half of the 1980s, most notably Masters of the Universe, based on the toys of that name and inspired by the comics of Jack Kirby.

Menahem Golan resigned from Cannon in 1989, and by 1993 the company had folded.

Menahem Golan hoped to film Spider-Man in 1986 at Cannon Studios in the United Kingdom, and to shoot the exteriors in Tel Aviv.

Menahem Golan struggled for years to produce the Marvel Comics character, but he finally failed when 21st Century Film Corporation went bankrupt and closed in 1996.

That year, Menahem Golan released his adaptation of Crime and Punishment.

Menahem Golan lost consciousness, and attempts to resuscitate him failed.