Martin Ransohoff

Martin Ransohoff

Martin Ransohoff (born November 30, 1926) is a cinema and television producer, and member of the Ransohoff family. He graduated from Colgate University in 1949 and is on a list of Distinguished Alumni. He founded the film production company Filmways, Inc. in 1960 and remained with the company until 1972. Filmways started making TV commercials, moved into documentaries then sitcoms; by 1963 Filmways were making $13 million a year. In 1972 he became an independent producer. He attempted to "create" female movie stars during the 1960s; the actresses who achieved the greatest success under his tutelage were Ann-Margret, Tuesday Weld and Sharon Tate, who featured in several of his films from 1964 until her death in 1969. He is a cousin of neurosurgeonJoseph Ransohoff. The Beverly Hillbillies brought Ransohoff his first success in 1962 and thereafter he turned his attention to films. Ransohoff went on to produce such films as American Pop.

  • Title: Martin Ransohoff
  • Popularity: 0.1607
  • Known For: Production
  • Birthday: 1927-07-07
  • Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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  • Also Known As: Martin Nelson Ransohoff
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Martin Ransohoff Movies

  • 1964
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    Action on the Beach

    Action on the Beach

    1 1964 HD

    Behind the scenes look at the D-Day special effects created in filming The Americanization of Emily (1964).

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  • 2002
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    Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence

    Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence

    6 2002 HD

    Sharon Tate is a rising young star before her life ends in a shocking murder.

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  • 1965
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    The Big Sur

    The Big Sur

    6 1965 HD

    This MGM short film narrated by Richard Burton promotes its upcoming major release "The Sandpiper" (1965), starring Burton and his then wife Elizabeth Taylor. Panoramic shots of the ocean, the seashore, and the desert segue into the artistic community with various of its well-known artists at work and play. It all leads to clips from the film being made.

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  • 1966
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    All Eyes on Sharon Tate

    All Eyes on Sharon Tate

    7 1966 HD

    Promotional short film on an aspiring young actress Sharon Tate and her first film Eye of the Devil (1966).

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  • 1979
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    The Wanderers

    The Wanderers

    7 1979 HD

    The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’

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  • 1970
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    Catch-22

    Catch-22

    6.7 1970 HD

    A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.

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  • 1965
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    The Cincinnati Kid

    The Cincinnati Kid

    7 1965 HD

    An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

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  • 1966
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    Eye of the Devil

    Eye of the Devil

    6.2 1966 HD

    A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

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  • 1967
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    Don't Make Waves

    Don't Make Waves

    5.1 1967 HD

    Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture, getting entangled in two beachside romances.

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  • 1972
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    Fuzz

    Fuzz

    5.4 1972 HD

    Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

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  • 1976
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    Silver Streak

    Silver Streak

    6.701 1976 HD

    A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

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  • 1974
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    The White Dawn

    The White Dawn

    6.588 1974 HD

    In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

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  • 1985
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    Jagged Edge

    Jagged Edge

    6.3 1985 HD

    After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.

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  • 1962
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    Boys' Night Out

    Boys' Night Out

    5.7 1962 HD

    Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.

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  • 1964
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    The Americanization of Emily

    The Americanization of Emily

    6.6 1964 HD

    American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.

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  • 1980
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    A Change of Seasons

    A Change of Seasons

    5.5 1980 HD

    Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a younger lover of her own.

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  • 1979
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    Nightwing

    Nightwing

    4.7 1979 HD

    Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.

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  • 1971
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    See No Evil

    See No Evil

    6.508 1971 HD

    In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.

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  • 1974
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    The White Dawn

    The White Dawn

    6.588 1974 HD

    In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

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  • 1969
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    Castle Keep

    Castle Keep

    5.7 1969 HD

    During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

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  • 1965
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    The Loved One

    The Loved One

    6.2 1965 HD

    Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.

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  • 1967
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    Our Mother's House

    Our Mother's House

    7.1 1967 HD

    Seven children bury their mother and hide her death - until their long-lost father returns.

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  • 1983
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    Class

    Class

    6 1983 HD

    Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.

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  • 1993
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    Guilty as Sin

    Guilty as Sin

    5.649 1993 HD

    Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.

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  • 1971
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    10 Rillington Place

    10 Rillington Place

    7.3 1971 HD

    The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

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  • 1982
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    Hanky Panky

    Hanky Panky

    5.3 1982 HD

    Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.

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  • 1963
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    The Wheeler Dealers

    The Wheeler Dealers

    6.2 1963 HD

    Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.

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  • 1970
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    The Moonshine War

    The Moonshine War

    5.538 1970 HD

    A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.

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  • 1997
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    Turbulence

    Turbulence

    5.369 1997 HD

    On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep the aircraft from crashing, with on-ground support from an air traffic controller. While Halloran struggles to pilot the plane, Weaver continues to terrorize the surviving members of the crew.

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  • 1980
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    A Change of Seasons

    A Change of Seasons

    5.5 1980 HD

    Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a younger lover of her own.

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  • 1989
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    Welcome Home

    Welcome Home

    5.6 1989 HD

    Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the question is, what must he do and how will his family respond to him?

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  • 1968
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    Ice Station Zebra

    Ice Station Zebra

    6.3 1968 HD

    A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.

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  • 1965
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    The Sandpiper

    The Sandpiper

    6.308 1965 HD

    A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

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  • 1968
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    6 1968 HD

    Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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  • 1981
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    American Pop

    American Pop

    6.9 1981 HD

    The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.

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  • 1969
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    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    5.7 1969 HD

    Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.

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  • 1965
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    The Sandpiper

    The Sandpiper

    6.308 1965 HD

    A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

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  • 1988
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    Switching Channels

    Switching Channels

    6.1 1988 HD

    A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

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  • 1989
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    Physical Evidence

    Physical Evidence

    5.071 1989 HD

    A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.

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  • 1973
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    Save the Tiger

    Save the Tiger

    6.5 1973 HD

    A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.

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  • 1987
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    The Big Town

    The Big Town

    5.6 1987 HD

    It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.

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  • 1970
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    Co-Ed Fever is an American sitcom that aired on CBS in 1979. The series attempted to capitalize on the success of the motion picture National Lampoon's Animal House. It was the third of three "frat house" comedy series to air in early 1979. CBS cancelled Co-Ed Fever after only one episode, and all three series were off the air by the end of April 1979. The series was so low rated it never made it to its regular time slot, Monday night, instead having aired as a "special preview" the night before. In 2002, Co-Ed Fever ranked number 32 on TV Guide's 50 Worst Shows of All Time list.

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  • 1970
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    4 1970 HD

    Co-Ed Fever is an American sitcom that aired on CBS in 1979. The series attempted to capitalize on the success of the motion picture National Lampoon's Animal House. It was the third of three "frat house" comedy series to air in early 1979. CBS cancelled Co-Ed Fever after only one episode, and all three series were off the air by the end of April 1979. The series was so low rated it never made it to its regular time slot, Monday night, instead having aired as a "special preview" the night before. In 2002, Co-Ed Fever ranked number 32 on TV Guide's 50 Worst Shows of All Time list.

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