Background
Hecht, Harold was born on June 1, 1907 in New York City. Son of Joseph and Rose (Lowey) Hecht.
Hecht, Harold was born on June 1, 1907 in New York City. Son of Joseph and Rose (Lowey) Hecht.
Student American Laboratory Theatre.
Harold Hecht started his involvement with the New York stage at age 16. He appeared in numerous classical stage productions and later danced with the companies of the Metropolitan Opera and Martha Graham. Then in the 1930s he became a dance director on film productions.
Harold Hecht is probably best remembered today for his association with the actor Burt Lancaster, whom he "discovered" on the New York stage and brought to Hollywood, and with whom he formed an independent film production company, breaking from the then-powerful studio system.
Their companies were Norma Productions, the Hecht-Lancaster company and, later with the writer-producer James Hill, Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions. On his death, due to cancer, at his (Beverly Hills, California) home in 1985, six days prior to his 78th birthday, he was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Los Angeles
His eldest is an attorney, son Duffy is a producer/writer and Alma is a Landscape Designer. Harold Hecht, Junior. became a television producer.
Adam Hecht mysteriously vanished on July 7, 1989 from Beverly Hills, California at age 24 and has never been foundation
The story of Adam Hecht"s disappearance was aired on the American television series Unsolved Mysteries in 1990. His youngest is daughter Rebecca Hecht.
Member Screen Producers Guild, Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Films include: The Flame and the Arrow, Ten Tall Men, Apache, Marty, Trapeze, Bachelor Party, Run Silent, Run Deep, Separate Tables, Bird Manitoba of Alcatraz, Taras Bulba, Cat Ballou, The Way West, others
Married Gloria J. Buzzell, November 1, 1947. Married second, Margaret Truefitt, 1962. Children: Steven, Duffy, Alma Virginia.