Lewis J. Rachmil

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Lewis J. Rachmil
Born	(1908-07-03)July 3, 1908 New York City
Died	February 19, 1984(1984-02-19) (aged 75) Beverly Hills, California
Other names	Lewis Rachmil
Occupation	Film producer, art director
Years active	1934–1984

Lewis J. Rachmil (July 3, 1908 – February 19, 1984) was an American film producer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Our Town.^[1]^[2] In the mid and late 1940s, he produced several of William Boyd's popular Hopalong Cassidy B-Westerns. In 1959, he was producer of Men into Space, a one-season CBS TV series that tried to give a serious science fiction preview of where the then-new American space program seemed to be heading. During the 1960s he produced several films in England for Mirisch Films.

He was born in New York City and died in Beverly Hills, California.

Selected filmography

Our Town (1940)
Gun Fury (1953)
The Violent Men (1955)
Over-Exposed (1956)
Gidget (1959)
Kings of the Sun (1963)
633 Squadron (1964)
Inspector Clouseau (1968)
Footloose (1984)

References

↑ "Lewis J. Rachmil". theoscarsite.com. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
↑ "IMDb.com: Lewis J. Rachmil – Awards". IMDb.com. Retrieved December 13, 2008.

External links

Lewis J. Rachmil at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	VIAF: 43364001 ISNI: 0000 0000 5937 0533

Persondata
Name	Rachmil, Lewis J.
Alternative names
Short description	Film producer, Art director
Date of birth	1908-7-3
Place of birth	New York City
Date of death	1984-2-19
Place of death	Beverly Hills, California

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