Mini-Biography:
Val Lewton was born under the given name Vladimir Leventon on May 7, 1904 in Yalta, Krim. He was an American Producer, known for I walked with a Zombie (1943), Apache Drums (1951), Curse of the Cat People (1944), Val Lewton's first movie on record is from 1942. He was married to Ruth Knapp (1929-1951). Val Lewton died on March 14, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA. His last motion picture on file dates from 2007.
Biographical Notes
B-Picture Produzent des amerikanischen Kinos, russischer Herkunft. "Cat People" zählt zu seinen Filmen, die Kult geworden sind.
FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
2007: Martin Scorsese presents Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (Cast: Val Lewton), Directed by Kent Jones, with Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Robert Wise,
1951: Apache Drums (Producer), Directed by Hugo Fregonese, with Coleen Gray, Stephen McNally, Willard Parker,
1950: Please believe me (Please, beliebe me) (Producer), Directed by Norman Taurog, with Spring Byington, George Cleveland, Deborah Kerr,
1948: My own true love (Producer), Directed by Compton Bennett, with Phyllis Calvert, Melvyn Douglas, Wanda Hendrix,
1945: Isle of the Dead (Producer), Directed by Mark Robson, with Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer,
1945: Bedlam (Producer), Directed by Mark Robson, with Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House,
1944: Curse of the Cat People (Producer), Directed by Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch, with Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph,
1944: The Body Snatcher (Producer), Directed by Robert Wise, with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniel,
1943: Youth runs wild (Producer), Directed by Mark Robson, with Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Jean Brooks,
1943: I walked with a Zombie (Producer), Directed by Jacques Tourneur, with James Bell, Tom Conway, Frances Dee,
1943: Seventh Victim (Producer), Directed by Mark Robson, with Tom Conway,
1943: The Ghost Ship (Producer), Directed by Mark Robson, with Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett,
1943: Mademoiselle Fifi (Producer), Directed by Robert Wise, with John Emery, Kurt Kreuger, Alan Napier,
1943: The Leopard Man (Producer), Directed by Jacques Tourneur, with Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks,
1942: Cat People (Producer), Directed by Jacques Tourneur, with Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway,