Andy Albeck

president sales representative movie executive

September 25, 1921 (age 89)

Vladivostok, Russia

His family was taken aboard an American naval vessel to Yokohama, Japan, where Albeck was raised and educated at Saint Joseph College. His first connection to the film industry was in 1939, when he became a sales representative for Columbia Pictures in what was then the Dutch East Indies, present day Indonesia. He came to United Artists when the company made the 1951 acquisition of Eagle-Lion Films, the British film company he had been working foreign The marriage ended in divorce. Albeck later had Marcus" experience during World World War II and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War made into the 1966 United Artists film Cast a Giant Shadow, starring Kirk Douglas. Albeck worked his way up through the sales department at United Artists, earning promotions to become president of its broadcasting division and senior vice president of operations. In 1978, Transamerica Corporation chose him to head the studio after its former chairman Arthur B. Krim left with a group of executives to form Orion Pictures, picking Albeck for his ability to control costs and his positive relationship with wary Transamerica executives. Author Steven Bach, who served as head of production at United Artists under Albeck, wrote, "Andy Albeck was not show business. That much was clear," in his book Final Cut. During his tenure at United Artists, the studio produced The French Lieutenant"s Woman starring Meryl Streep, Manhattan and Stardust Memories by director Woody Allen and the James Bond films Moonraker and Foreign Your Eyes Only. Albeck also oversaw two films in the Rocky series, both of which were box office successes. Raging Bulletin, with Robert De Niro playing the role of Jake LaMotta, was a critical success that went on to be ranked on the American Film Institute"s top 100 films of all time. In the following weeks Albeck was named chairman of United Artists and removed from his post as president, resigning from the firm in February 1981 in the wake of media reports that he had been forced to retire. In the wake of losses amounting to $44 million, making it what was then the biggest money losing film in history, the studio was purchased in May 1981 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from Transamerica to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/UA in a deal valued at $380 million. In his retirement, he operated the award-winning Albeck Family Christmas Tree farm in Lafayette Township, New Jersey, growing blue spruce trees on a 200-acre (81 ha) farm. A resident of Manhattan, Albeck died there at the age of 89 on September 29, 2010, at New York University Langone Medical Center due to heart failure.

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president sales representative movie executive

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Albeck was born on September 25, 1921, in Vladivostok, Russia. His father was a Danish executive with a shipping firm, while his mother was a Russian escaping the Bolshevik Revolution.

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His family was taken aboard an American naval vessel to Yokohama, Japan, where Albeck was raised and educated at Saint Joseph College. His first connection to the film industry was in 1939, when he became a sales representative for Columbia Pictures in what was then the Dutch East Indies, present day Indonesia. He came to United Artists when the company made the 1951 acquisition of Eagle-Lion Films, the British film company he had been working foreign

The marriage ended in divorce.

Albeck later had Marcus" experience during World World War II and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War made into the 1966 United Artists film Cast a Giant Shadow, starring Kirk Douglas. Albeck worked his way up through the sales department at United Artists, earning promotions to become president of its broadcasting division and senior vice president of operations.

In 1978, Transamerica Corporation chose him to head the studio after its former chairman Arthur B. Krim left with a group of executives to form Orion Pictures, picking Albeck for his ability to control costs and his positive relationship with wary Transamerica executives. Author Steven Bach, who served as head of production at United Artists under Albeck, wrote, "Andy Albeck was not show business.

That much was clear," in his book Final Cut.

During his tenure at United Artists, the studio produced The French Lieutenant"s Woman starring Meryl Streep, Manhattan and Stardust Memories by director Woody Allen and the James Bond films Moonraker and Foreign Your Eyes Only. Albeck also oversaw two films in the Rocky series, both of which were box office successes. Raging Bulletin, with Robert De Niro playing the role of Jake LaMotta, was a critical success that went on to be ranked on the American Film Institute"s top 100 films of all time.

In the following weeks Albeck was named chairman of United Artists and removed from his post as president, resigning from the firm in February 1981 in the wake of media reports that he had been forced to retire.

In the wake of losses amounting to $44 million, making it what was then the biggest money losing film in history, the studio was purchased in May 1981 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from Transamerica to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/UA in a deal valued at $380 million. In his retirement, he operated the award-winning Albeck Family Christmas Tree farm in Lafayette Township, New Jersey, growing blue spruce trees on a 200-acre (81 ha) farm.

A resident of Manhattan, Albeck died there at the age of 89 on September 29, 2010, at New York University Langone Medical Center due to heart failure.

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