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Feb 13, 2007, 12:35 PM
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Producer Charles Swartz dead at 66
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Writer and producer of the immortal It's a Bikini World (1967), Charles Swartz died Saturday in Los Angeles. The cause was pneumonia; Swartz had been battling brain cancer for several months.
He was a former head of the Entertainment Technology Center at USC.
Born and raised in Dallas, he started as a story executive and associate producer at Warner Bros. Television and later became head of production at Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He was also a co-founder of Dimension Pictures.
Other low-budget flicks that Swartz produced or executive produced included The Student Nurses (1970), The Velvet Vampire (aka Cemetery Girls, The Devil Is a Woman, The Waking Hour and Through the Looking Glass; 1971), Sweet Sugar (aka Captive Women 3, Chaingang Girls, Hellfire on Ice and She Devils in Chains; 1973), Terminal Island (aka Knuckle-Men; 1973), Beyond Atlantis (aka Sea Creatures; 1973) and The Working Girls (aka Elvira Naked; 1974).
He was a writer for Group Marriage (1973), and was a production executive for 1971's Gas-s-s-s... or, It May Become Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It -- which had early appearances by Talia Shire, Ben Vereen and Cindy Williams.
Charles Swartz is survived by his wife since 1963, writer-director Stephanie Rothman, who wrote for several of his films. Donations may be made to Save the Redwoods League or the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.
(This post was edited by eminovitz on Feb 13, 2007, 1:36 PM)
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Feb 13, 2007, 12:50 PM
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"Terminal Island" featured early appearances by "Magnum PI" stars Tom Selleck and Roger E. Mosley. Irwin Allen tv show fans might also be interested in seeing Marta Kristen (Judy on "Lost in Space") and Don Marshall (Dan on "Land of the Giants") in the same film as well.
(This post was edited by artytoons on Feb 13, 2007, 12:50 PM)
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Sep 2, 2007, 5:21 PM
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 He also wrote "Understanding Digital Cinema: A Professional Handbook"
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