Background
Poll was born on November 24, 1922, in New York City.
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Martin Poll
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Career
Poll launched his production career in 1954, when he produced thirty-nine episodes of the televisions series, Flash Gordon, for distribution in West Germany and France. Poll purchased and restored the Biograph Studios, a studio facility and film laboratory complex in the Bronx, during the 1950s. He reopened the studios in 1956 under a new name, Gold Medal Studios.
The reopening made the Bronx-based facility the largest film studio in the United States located outside of Los Angeles at the time.
The New York City government soon established its own film commission shortly after Poll"s appointment. In addition to his body of film work, Poll also produced television series, films and specials as well.
His credits included The Dain Curse, a 1978 Columbia Broadcasting System television miniseries. The Fantastic Seven, a 1979 Columbia Broadcasting System television movie.
And Diana: Her True Story, a television film which aired on National Broadcasting Company in 1993 based on a book by Andrew Morton.
Poll earned an Emmy nomination for executive producing a remake of The Lion in Winter, starring Glenn Close as Eleanor of Aquitaine, which aired on Showtime in 2003. Martin Poll died in New York City on April 14, 2012, at the age of 89. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the lawsuit alleged "that Mr Cohen and Mr Poll pitched the idea to Fox several times between 1993 and 1996, under the name Cast of Characters." The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was an adaptation of the 1999 published comic book series by Alan Moore and artist Kevin O"Neill.
Achievements
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Poll produced eleven feature films during his career, including The Lion in Winter, for which he received a 1968 Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Best Picture. The Lion in Winter, which starred Katharine Hepburn and Peter O"Toole, received nine nominations and won three Academy Awards. lieutenant also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. Poll helped create numerous films at Gold Medal Studios, including A Face in the Crowd in 1957, The Goddess in 1958, The Fugitive Kind in 1959, Middle of the Night in 1959, and BUtterfield 8 in 1960. Poll was appointed the Commissioner of Motion Picture Arts of New York City in 1959 for his work with Gold Medal Studios. Poll sold Gold Medal Studios during the early 1960s to focus on film production.
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April 14, 2012 (aged 89)