Leon Fromkess
Leon Fromkess was a film and television producer in the United States. He was an executive at Producers Releasing Corporation.
He graduated from Columbia University in 1926. He helped Columbia Pictures refinance debt and went on to help organize Producers Releasing Corporation and produced more than 200 films with it.[1]
He produced Edgar G. Ulmer films.[2]
Filmography
[edit]- Gallant Lady(1942)
- Baby Face Morgan (1942)
- Jive Junction (1943)
- Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943)
- The Ghost and the Guest (1943), production supervisor
- When the Lights Go On Again (1944)
- The Great Mike (1944)
- Bkuebeard (1944)[2]
- Minstrel Man (1944)
- Detour (1945)[3]
- Detour (1945)
- Fog Island (1945)
- Club Havana (1945)
- Strange Illusion (1945)
- Crime, Inc. (1945)
- Dangerous Intruder (1945)
- Hollywood and Vine (1945)
- The Missing Corpse (1945)
- Danny Boy (1946)
- A Song is Born (1948)[4]
- The Wife of Monte Cristo (1948)
- The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)
- Flareup (1969)
Television
[edit]- The Halls of Ivy (1950-1952)
- Gruen Playhouse
- The Adventures of Kit Carson
- Lassie (1954 TV series)
- New York Confidential (TV series)
- Fury (American TV series)
- Ramar of the Jungle
- The Adventures of Tugboat Annie (1957)
- The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957-1958)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Irvin, Richard (November 11, 2022). Pioneers of "B" Television: Independent Producers, Series and Pilots of the 1950s. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-8996-8 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Mank, Gregory William (June 21, 2010). Hollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films from the Genre's Golden Age. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-6255-1 – via Google Books.
- ^ Muller, Eddie (July 20, 2021). Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded ed.). Running Press. ISBN 978-0-7624-9896-3 – via Google Books.
- ^ Nollen, Scott Allen (January 1, 2004). Louis Armstrong: The Life, Music, and Screen Career. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1857-2 – via Google Books.
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