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Robert M. Weitman (1905–1989) was an American film, TV and theatre producer and studio executive. For a number of years he was a leading executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, being head of production during a successful period in the 1960s under president Robert O'Brien.
Jan 22, 1989 · Robert M. Weitman, a former film, stage and television producer, died Friday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 83 years old. Born in 1905 on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Mr....
Robert Weitman was born in 1905 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for The Anderson Tapes (1971), Shamus (1973) and A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975). He died in January 1989 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
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The film was the first for producer Robert M. Weitman as an independent producer. Columbia Pictures was not happy with the concept for the ending of the film, in which Connery escaped to be pursued by police helicopters, fearing that it would hurt sales to television, which generally required that bad deeds do not go unpunished.
Production executive Robert M. Weitman got his start as a doorman at the Broadway Paramount Theater in New York. By 1935 he had risen to successfully manage the Paramount in Times Square. In 1953, following the merger between Paramount and the ABC network, Weitman was appointed vice president of programming.
The film was produced by Robert M. Weitman, who had a multi-picture deal with Columbia, the first of which was The Anderson Tapes. Reynolds' signing was announced in February 1972. By this stage Buzz Kulik was attached as director and Sam Pessim was writing the script.
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