James C. Katz

About James C. Katz

Who is it?: Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Director
Birth Day: March 17, 1940
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA

James C. Katz

James C. Katz has built a career equally focused on preserving the old and creating the new in cinema. Along with Bob...
James C. Katz is a member of Miscellaneous Crew

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Popular As James C. Katz
Occupation Miscellaneous Crew
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born March 17, 1940 (New York City, New York, USA)
Birthday March 17
Town/City New York City, New York, USA
Nationality USA

🌙 Zodiac

James C. Katz’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

James C. Katz was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

James C. Katz has built a career equally focused on preserving the old and creating the new in cinema. Along with Bob Harris, he was responsible for the restorations of Rear Window, Vertigo, Spartacus and My Fair Lady.

On the new side, he has produced such features as Paul Bartel's Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, written by Bruce Wagner , executive produced Lust in the Dust, starring Divine and Tab Hunter and was producer of Nobody's Fool, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Beth Henley.

As of 2013, he is involved in several film and television projects for The Wyle/Katz Company, a production company with actor Noah Wyle, in Los Angeles.Katz received a B.A. from Ohio State University and began his career in the United Artists publicity department, eventually becoming Director of Worldwide Publicity.

He was involved in the campaigns for such films as the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns, the James Bond movies, In the Heat of the Night, and two Beatles movies, A Hard Day's Night and HELP! He subsequently lived in Europe where he produced and directed several documentaries, short films and commercials, and co-produced the National Theatre's film production of Chekhov's Three Sisters, starring and directed by Sir Laurence Olivier.

As President and founder of the Universal Pictures Classics Division in the early 1980s, Katz was responsible for the reissue of five Hitchcock films -- Rear Window, Vertigo, Rope, The Trouble With Harry, and The Man Who Knew Too Much -- as well as the reissue of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, the reissue of the Preston Sturges package and the theatrical distribution of Abel Gance's Napoleon, during which he cemented his partnership with Bob Harris.

At the same time, under Katz' aegis, Universal Pictures Classics became the first classics division to be involved in film production, with John Huston's Under the Volcano. Katz was also involved in bringing such films as Jerszy Skolimowski's Moonlighting, Merchant Ivory's Heat and Dust, Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr.

Lawrence and Franco Zeffirelli's La Traviata to U.S. audiences. Katz also served several years as a production VP for Universal Pictures.Katz served on the 2000 and 2001 AFI Awards selection juries, and has been a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

He is also a charter member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Los Angeles.(BAFTA LA)

James C. Katz Movies

  • Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) as Editorial Department
  • The Rise and Fall of Ivor Dickie (1978) as Producer
  • Digby: The Biggest Dog in the World (1973) as Miscellaneous Crew
  • Nobody's Fool (1986) as Producer

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