Producer Archer King Has Died
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King acted in the Broadway productions Summer Night and Stop Press in 1939. These were followed by service in World War II. After the war, he returned to the theatre and produced a number of Broadway plays, including Two Blind Mice by Sam Spewack and Miracle in the Mountains by Ferenc Molnár. In 1951, he was hired as head of talent at CBS. In 1952, he became an agent with the Louis Shurr Agency.
King started his own agency in 1957. He is credited with discovering James Dean, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Martin Sheen, Paul Mazursky, Elizabeth Montgomery, Tommy Tune and Ron Howard. He has represented clients such as John Cassavetes, Broderick Crawford, Bette Midler, Dorothy Malone, Alexis Smith and Tommy Tune.
In 1963, Archer King Ltd, under Kanawha Films Ltd., acquired and distributed a number of foreign films, including Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water and Volker Schlondorff's Young Torless. Both films were nominated for Academy Awards.
From 1979 to 1986, while retaining his agents' franchise, he became the head of production of the Theater-to-Television' Division of RKO Pictures. There he acquired and produced Sweeney Todd starring Angela Lansbury, which won an Ace Award for Best Production, The Gin Game, starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, I Do! I Do! starring Lee Remick and Hal Linden, and Lena Horne's one-woman show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music.
Producer
Blood Drive: The Movie (2013)
Blood Drive: The Movie
8.2
executive producer
2013
The Mortician's Wife (2012)
The Mortician's Wife
Short
executive producer
2012
Blood Bank (2012)
Blood Bank
Short
executive producer
2012
'Til Death Do Us Part (2012)
'Til Death Do Us Part
Short
executive producer
2012
Come In (2012)
Come In
Short
executive producer
2012
Blood Drive: The Beginning (2012)
Blood Drive: The Beginning
9.4
Short
executive producer
2012
Main Course (2011)
Main Course
Short
executive producer
2011
The Executive Producer (2011)
The Executive Producer
Short
executive producer
2011
Jade (2011)
Jade
Short
executive producer
2011
Sell Your Soul (2011)
Sell Your Soul
Short
executive producer
2011
Vampire Park (2011)
Vampire Park
Short
executive producer
2011
Alpha City (2008)
New York Stories 2010
Short
executive producer
2010
Obsession (2010)
Obsession
Short
executive producer
2010
Sunday Serenade (2010)
Sunday Serenade
8.5
Short
executive producer
2010
My Sister's Date (2010)
My Sister's Date
8.9
Short
executive producer
2010
The Haunted Spirit (2009)
The Haunted Spirit
8.0
Short
executive producer
2009
My Lucky Day (2009)
My Lucky Day
Short
executive producer
2009
Alpha City (2008)
Alpha City
7.7
Short
executive producer
2008
Scrambled Feet (1983)
Scrambled Feet
8.5
executive producer
1983
Lee Remick and Hal Linden in I Do! I Do! (1983)
I Do! I Do!
7.0
TV Movie
executive producer
1983
Angela Lansbury and George Hearn in Sweeney Todd: The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street (1982)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
8.4
TV Movie
executive producer
1982
The Gin Game (1981)
The Gin Game
8.0
TV Movie
executive producer
1981
Actor
Blood Drive: The Movie (2013)
Blood Drive: The Movie
8.2
Dr. Cooper
Uncle George
2013
Blood Drive: The Beginning (2012)
Blood Drive: The Beginning
9.4
Short
Dr. Cooper
Uncle George
2012
Main Course (2011)
Main Course
Short
Uncle George
2011
Jade (2011)
Jade
Short
Dr. Cooper
2011
Vampire Park (2011)
Vampire Park
Short
Dr. Cooper
2011
Alpha City (2008)
New York Stories 2010
Short
Mr.Pepper
2010
Sunday Serenade (2010)
Sunday Serenade
8.5
Short
Man Sitting on Bench
2010
My Sister's Date (2010)
My Sister's Date
8.9
Short
Mr. Knight
2010
The Haunted Spirit (2009)
The Haunted Spirit
8.0
Short
Mr. K.
2009
My Lucky Day (2009)
My Lucky Day
Short
Mr. Pepper
2009
Director
My Sister's Date (2010)
My Sister's Date
8.9
Short
Director
2010
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