Sandy Howard
Sandy Howard (August 1, 1927 – May 16, 2008) was an American film producer and television producer.
Biography
A native of the Bronx, New York City, Howard wrote short stories for publication in magazines like Liberty, and worked as a publicist for Broadway shows until he became a director for the Howdy Doody show at the age of nineteen; he later produced the Captain Kangaroo show.[1]
He cooperated with Ray Heatherton creating the TV show The Merry Mailman in the early 1950s. He was producer of The Barry Gray Radio Show (1951–1958).[2]
Film producer
In the 1960s, Howard moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in film.
Among his film productions are A Man Called Horse (1970) and Man in the Wilderness (1971).[3]
He contributed as writer on Vice Squad (1982).
Death
He developed Alzheimers and spent the last ten years of his life as a resident at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, in the Alzheimer's and dementia care facility, Harry's Haven. He died in 2008.[1]
Select credits
- The Howdy Doody Show (1947-59) (TV series) - director
- Night Court USA (1958) (TV series) - producer, director, writer, creator
- Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) - director
- Police Station (1959) (TV series) - producer, director, writer
- Congressional Investigator (1959) (TV series) - director
- 'Harrigan and Son (1960-61) (TV series) - producer
- Mack & Myer for Hire (1963-64) (TV series) - producer
- Diary of a Bachelor (1964) - producer, director
- City of Fear (1965) - producer
- Gamera the Invincible (1966) - director of US sequences
- Jack of Diamonds (1967) - producer, writer
- One Step to Hell (1968) - producer, director, writer
- A Man Called Horse (1970) - producer
- Man in the Wilderness (1971) - producer
- The Neptune Factor (1973) - producer
- Together Brothers (1974) - executive producer
- The Devil's Rain (1975) - executive producer
- Embryo (1976) - executive producer
- Sky Riders (1976) - executive producer
- Captain Kangaroo (1976) (TV series) - producer
- The Island of Dr Moreau (1977) - executive producer
- Echoes of a Summer (1976) - producer
- The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) - executive producer
- Circle of Iron (1978) - producer
- Meteor (1979) - executive producer
- Jaguar Lives! (1979) - producer
- City on Fire (1979) - executive producer
- Savage Harvest (1981) - producer
- Vice Squad (1982) - executive producer
- Hambone and Hillie (1983) - producer
- Deadly Force (1983) - producer
- Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983) - executive producer
- Angel (1984) - executive producer
- What Waits Below (1984) - producer
- Avenging Angel (1985) - producer
- The Boys Next Door (1985) - producer
- KGB: The Secret War (1985) - producer
- Hollywood Vice Squad (1986) - producer, writer
- Nightstick (1987) - executive producer
- Kidnapped (1987) - producer
- Street Justice (1987) - executive producer
- Blue Monkey (1987) - executive producer
- Dark Tower (1989) - producer (uncredited)
Awards
- The Bronze Wrangler from the 1971 Western Heritage Awards, for A Man Called Horse (shared with director Elliot Silverstein, writer Jack DeWitt, and actors Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Corinna Tsopei and Richard Harris).[4]
References
- 1 2 "Sandy Howard, 80; produced 'A Man Called Horse'" (Retrieved on May 18, 2008)
- ↑ "Producer behind A Man Called Horse dies" – CBC News (Saturday, May 17, 2008) (Retrieved on May 17, 2008)
- ↑ Borseti, Francesco (2016). It Cam from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers. McFarland. p. 20-39.
- ↑ "Western Heritage Awards: 1971" – imdb.com (Retrieved on May 17, 2008)
External links
- Sandy Howard at BFI
- Sandy Howard at IMDB
- Obituary at Variety
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