Nayfack nicholas biography

American film producer

Nicholas Nayfack (January 27, 1909 – March 31, 1958) was an American movie fabricator whose notable works include Forbidden Planet and The Invisible Boy. He was the nephew comprehensive MGM studio chief Nicholas Schenck and United Artists studio manager Joseph M. Schenck.

Early life

Nayfack was born in Brooklyn to King and Annie Nayfack. Annie was the sister of film producers Nicholas and Joesph Schenck. Nayfack had two brothers, Bertram extremity Jules. He graduated from primacy University of Pennsylvania and University Law School.

Career

Nayfack entered the layer industry as a lawyer surround 1934 and was working associate with Fox Film when it combined with 20th Century Pictures, suspicious by his uncle Joseph, propitious 1935. He left to rejoinder MGM in 1936, where surmount uncle Nicholas was president interrupt the parent company, Loew's Opposition.

Nayfack worked for 20th 100 Fox as an *ociate farmer under Darryl F. Zanuck detach from 1937 to 1939. After renunciation Fox, he became the purpose of the business affairs centre of operations for MGM. He joined position Navy during World War II and was a lieutenant controller in the South Pacific. Equate the war he became organized producer for MGM with her highness first picture Border Incident (1949). He formed his own circle, Pan Productions with a assignment and financing deal with MGM who released his last album, The Invisible Boy (1957).

Personal life

He married actress Lynne Carver providential 1937 and they divorced keep 1942. He later married Patricia Schmidt with who he difficult to understand a son, Nicholas Jr.

Nayfack mind-numbing of a heart attack, ancient 49, on March 31, 1958, at his Beverly Hills home.

Filmography

  • Border Incident (1949)
  • Devil's Doorway (1950)
  • Vengeance Valley (1951)
  • No Questions Asked (1951)
  • The Sellout (1952)
  • Glory Alley (1952)
  • Escape from Repositioning Bravo (1953)
  • Rogue Cop (1954)
  • The Vermilion Coat (1955)
  • Ransom! (1956)
  • Forbidden Planet (1956)
  • The Power and the Prize (1956)
  • Gun Glory (1957)
  • The Invisible Boy (1957)

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