Production

Martin Ransohoff

Born July 7, 1927 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (age 99)

Martin Ransohoff (born November 30, 1926) is a cinema and television producer, and member of the Ransohoff family. He graduated from Colgate University in 1949 and is on a list of Distinguished Alumni. He founded the film production company Filmways, Inc. in 1960 and remained with the company until 1972. Filmways started making TV commercials, moved into documentaries then sitcoms; by 1963 Filmwa…

Known For

Turbulence

Turbulence · 1997

MovieActionThriller

On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep the aircraft from crashing, with on-ground support from an air traffic controller. While Halloran struggles to pilot the plane, Weaver continues to terrorize the surviving members of the crew.

Silver Streak

Silver Streak · 1976

MovieComedyCrime

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

Ice Station Zebra

Ice Station Zebra · 1968

Ice Station Zebra

MovieThrillerAdventure

A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday, is dispatched to save them.

The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper · 1965

MovieDramaRomance

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

Switching Channels

Switching Channels · 1988

Switching Channels

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

Don't Make Waves

Don't Make Waves · 1967

Don't Make Waves

Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture, getting entangled in two beachside romances.

The Loved One

The Loved One · 1965

The suicide of his expatriate uncle draws Englishman and poet Dennis Barlow into California's booming funeral industry.

Jagged Edge

Jagged Edge · 1985

After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.

Filmography

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Turbulence

Turbulence · 1997

MovieActionThriller

On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep the aircraft from crashing, with on-ground support from an air traffic controller. While Halloran struggles to pilot the plane, Weaver continues to terrorize the surviving members of the crew.

Producer

Silver Streak

Silver Streak · 1976

MovieComedyCrime

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

Executive Producer

Ice Station Zebra

Ice Station Zebra · 1968

Ice Station Zebra

MovieThrillerAdventure

A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday, is dispatched to save them.

Producer

The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper · 1965

MovieDramaRomance

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

Producer

Switching Channels

Switching Channels · 1988

Switching Channels

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

Producer

Don't Make Waves

Don't Make Waves · 1967

Don't Make Waves

Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture, getting entangled in two beachside romances.

Producer

The Loved One

The Loved One · 1965

The suicide of his expatriate uncle draws Englishman and poet Dennis Barlow into California's booming funeral industry.

Executive Producer

Jagged Edge

Jagged Edge · 1985

After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.

Producer

Catch-22

Catch-22 · 1970

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.

Producer

The Wanderers

The Wanderers · 1979

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’

Producer

Hanky Panky

Hanky Panky · 1982

MovieMysteryAction

Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.

Producer

The Cincinnati Kid

The Cincinnati Kid · 1965

The Cincinnati Kid

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Producer

American Pop

American Pop · 1981

MovieAnimationMusic

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.

Producer

Class

MovieComedyDrama

Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.

Producer

Boys' Night Out

Boys' Night Out · 1962

Boys' Night Out

MovieComedyRomance

Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.

Producer

10 Rillington Place

10 Rillington Place · 1971

10 Rillington Place

MovieCrimeThriller

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

Producer

The Big Town

The Big Town · 1987

MovieDramaRomance

It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.

Producer

Castle Keep

Castle Keep · 1969

MovieComedyDrama

During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

Producer

Eye of the Devil

Eye of the Devil · 1966

Eye of the Devil

MovieHorrorMystery

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

Producer

The Moonshine War

The Moonshine War · 1970

The Moonshine War

MovieComedyCrime

A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.

Producer

Save the Tiger

Save the Tiger · 1973

A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.

Producer

Guilty as Sin

Guilty as Sin · 1993

MovieThrillerDrama

Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.

Producer

Our Mother's House

Our Mother's House · 1967

Our Mother's House

Seven children bury their mother and hide her death - until their long-lost father returns.

Executive Producer

The Americanization of Emily

The Americanization of Emily · 1964

The Americanization of Emily

MovieComedyDrama

American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.

Producer