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Walter Mirisch (1921-2023) was an American film producer who won the Academy Award for Best Picture for In the Heat of the Night (1967). He founded The Mirisch Corporation with his brothers and produced 68 films for United Artists, including The Apartment, West Side Story, Hawaii, and Midway.
Feb 25, 2023 · Walter Mirisch, the legendary independent-minded producer who is the only person to receive the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Irving G....
Feb 28, 2023 · Walter Mirisch, a film producer who with his two brothers ran a pioneering independent production company that helped bring to the screen a raft of canonical films, including the Oscar...
Feb 26, 2023 · Walter Mirisch, the last of three Mirisch brothers who produced or oversaw production of many highly regarded films in the 1950s and ’60s, has died.
Feb 26, 2023 · Walter Mirisch, a former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and an Oscar-winning producer for “In the Heat of the Night,” died Feb. 24 in Los Angeles of natural ...
Feb 27, 2023 · LOS ANGELES — Walter Mirisch, the astute and Oscar-winning film producer who oversaw such classics as “Some Like It Hot,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” has died of natural...
Feb 26, 2023 · Walter Mirisch, a film producer and executive whose name is synonymous with numerous canonized 20th-century works, has died, as was confirmed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...