Lew Grade, Baron Grade, OStJ (born Lev Winogradsky; 25 December 1906 – 13 December 1998) was a Russian-born British media proprietor and impresario. Originally...
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then known as The Athena Boodle as part of a $97 million slate of movies Lew Grade was making which also included The Legend of the Lone Ranger, Movie Movie...
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to Italy to make the adventure comedy Romulus and the Sabines (1961). Lew Grade cast Moore as Simon Templar in a new adaptation of The Saint, based on...
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Grade Organisation (also known as Lew and Leslie Grade Ltd) with his elder brother, the impresario and producer Lew Grade (1906–98). During the 1940s, the...
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Raise the Titanic is a 1980 adventure film produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and directed by Jerry Jameson. The film, written by Eric Hughes (adaptation)...
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project struck some as blasphemous, others as ecumenical. Lord Grade, then Sir Lew Grade, presided over a massive press conference in the Holy City, (Rome)...
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Honeydew was not specifically Lew Grade when we did him. It would have been easy to make him much more like Lew Grade if we had tried to and, in retrospect...
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the theatrical agent Leslie Grade, and his uncles were the impresarios Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont. When he was three years old, his non-Jewish mother...
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he had a long and successful association with media impresario Lew Grade and Grade's company ITC, continuing until the second series of Space: 1999....
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Amis, from a story by John Barry. Though a British production, made by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and shot at Shepperton Studios, the film has an American...
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production and distribution of television programmes. Television mogul Lew Grade set up the Incorporated Television Programme Company (ITP) with Prince...
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networks in the United States rejected Henson's proposals, British producer Lew Grade expressed enthusiasm for the project and agreed to co-produce The Muppet...
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which is liable to collapse. With the backing of the media tycoon Sir Lew Grade (the head of the British broadcast network Associated Television) and...
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themselves. It was written and directed by Peter Hyams and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. It stars Elliott Gould as the reporter, and James...
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stage appearance for 28 years.[citation needed] Production executive Lew Grade soon approached McGoohan about a television series where he would play...
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and would make the movie in association with Lew Grade. Fryer had just made Voyage of the Damned for Grade. According to producer Martin Richards, Robert...
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bought by Associated Television director Lew Grade, and in 1966 was renamed "Century 21 Productions". Grade's purchase of AP Films was immediately followed...
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to the series' producer, Lew Grade, that he should meet Pope Paul VI, and subsequently did so at his wife's insistence. Grade and his wife Kathie had a...
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Man in 1960', as well as 'the most ambitious and most expensive of Sir Lew Grade's international action adventure series'. The Persuaders! was filmed in...
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It went to The Rank Organisation before eventually finding finance via Lew Grade. Michael Winner said that an American was meant to adapt it, but he did...
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made; production ended with the sixth episode of the second series after Lew Grade, APF's financial backer, failed in his efforts to sell the programme to...
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and spy fiction. It was produced by Everyman Films for distribution by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. A single series of 17 episodes was filmed between...
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family. His brothers, Lew Grade and Leslie Grade, also entered show business and formed the Grade Organisation. Their sister, Rita Grade, later wrote a book...
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was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes...
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“old”, (she was meant to be in her early twenties) but it turned out Lew Grade had already contracted Ann Archer, a good actress in her mid thirties...
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the major U.S. networks, Landau and Bain were cast at the insistence of Lew Grade over the objections of Sylvia Anderson, who wanted British actors. Also...
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production facilities. Grade's inability to grant them a series in colour led to their agent, Michael Grade (who happened to be Lew Grade's nephew) contacting...
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Edwards nor Peter Sellers, whose careers had declined. British producer Lew Grade agreed to finance two films for Blake Edwards as part of a deal to get...
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Hollywood producer and studio executive. The character's name alludes to Sir Lew Grade, head of ATV, the British company that co-produced The Muppet Show. After...
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Sam Waterston, and O. J. Simpson. The film was financed by producer Lew Grade, who later arranged Gould's guest appearances in The Muppets and its movie...
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