• 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • production and distribution of television programmes. Television mogul Lew Grade set up the Incorporated Television Programme Company (ITP) with Prince...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    was McGoohan's last stage appearance for 28 years. 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • “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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • as Embassy Section Head The Tamarind Seed was partly financed by Sir Lew Grade as part of a two-movie deal to get Andrews to commit to a TV show; the...
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  • were filmed on Holkham Beach in Norfolk. The film was a success, with Lew Grade saying "it made quite a lot of money". ITC made two more films with the...
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  • agent, Lew Grade signed him as a client. By 1955 he was performing with the George Mitchell Singers in Blackpool, with the impresario Lew Grade as his...
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    between 1964 and 1966. Following the completion of Fireball XL5, ATV owner Lew Grade had purchased the company, becoming managing director, with the Andersons...
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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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  • writers Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova. Britain's ITC Entertainment, headed by Lew Grade, made UFO (1970) and Space: 1999 (1975). These two series were created...
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