Leon Fromkess
Leon Fromkess was a film and television producer in the United States. He was an executive at Producers Releasing Corporation, producing several Edgar G. Ulmer films.[1]
Biography
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.[2]
Filmography
- 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)[1]
- Minstrel Man (1944)
- Detour (1945)[3]
- 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)
- Shock Corridor (1963) executive producer (uncredited)
- The Naked Kiss (1964) executive producer (uncredited)
- Blood on the Arrow (1964)
- The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)
- Flareup (1969)
Television
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.