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Herschel Saltzman (October 27, 1915 – September 28, 1994), better known as Harry Saltzman, was a Canadian theatre and film producer best known for his role in co-producing the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli. He lived most of his life in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England. ==Life and career== Saltzman was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec,〔 the son of Jewish immigrants.〔(Vanity Fair )〕 Raised in Saint John, New Brunswick for the first seven years of his life, Saltzman was 30 when he learned where he'd actually been born.〔 His father, a horticulturalist, then moved the family to Cleveland, Ohio.〔 He ran away from home at the age of 15, according to daughter Hilary Saltzman in the Ian Fleming Foundation documentary ''Harry Saltzman: Showman''. About the age of 17 he joined a circus and traveled with them for some years. In 1932 Saltzman moved to Paris, France to study political science and economics, however "within a year," he was "hand-picking talent for 40 two-a-day vaudeville houses all over Europe."〔 Saltzman claimed that he had worked as an assistant for French film director René Clair who came to America in 1940 to make the film ''The Flame of New Orleans''. In 1942 Saltzman signed a booking contract with Fanchon & Marco Enterprises. Saltzman went to the West Coast to sign big picture names. Saltzman sought the Ritz Brothers but due to film commitments they could not sign. In 1943 Saltzman was managing "The Gilbert Brothers' Combined Circus". According to an advert, the 1943 season began 26 May in Clifton, New Jersey and was booked solid through the Eastern American states until Mid-October. Shortly after the Second World War began, he enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force in Vancouver, British Columbia.〔 By the beginning of World War II in 1939 he was serving in the Canadian Army in France. He eventually received a medical discharge in Trenton, Ontario in 1943 and joined the U.S. Psychological Warfare Bureau because he wanted "to get back to Europe."〔 In 1945 Saltzman helped Lin Yutang establish UNESCO's film division but quit due to "east-west differences" which to him seemed "so hopeless".〔 Saltzman spent a year with the French government's Ministry of Reconstruction. At that point he decided he wanted back in show business.〔 After the war, Saltzman ended up in Paris where he met Jacqueline, a refugee from Romania whom he subsequently married. In Paris, Saltzman became part of the writer Colette's entourage. He worked as a talent scout for European productions on stage, television and in film, but gradually became more successful producing stage plays. He moved to the United States in the 1950s. In late 1950 Saltzman and Rhea Fink formed the "Mountie Enterprises Corporation" to operate coin-operated hobby horses. The first hobby horses appeared in department stores "on floors where children's goods are sold." By February 1951 "Mountie Enterprises Corporation" and Saltzman's new company "Rider Amusement Corporation" reported brisk business as both companies got contracts to install coin-operated hobby horses in major department stores in numerous American cities. Saltzman claimed to earn a day per hobby horse. He then became production supervisor on ''Robert Montgomery Presents'' and produced ''Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion''. Judith Krantz claims that she and Saltzman briefly dated. Krantz's father liked Saltzman and found him an entertaining conversationalist. Krantz also claims that Saltzman proposed to her. She declined claiming that he wasn't her physical type which she regretted because she thought he was "a wonderful companion, with a fantastic imagination." He moved what was by then his family of four to the UK in the mid-1950s where he again produced theater. He entered the film business by producing ''The Iron Petticoat'' (1956), a play adaptation. Saltzman started Woodfall Film Productions with Tony Richardson and John Osborne and produced other acclaimed social realism dramas such as 1959's ''Look Back in Anger'' and 1960's ''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning''. Film director Anthony Mann noted the dichotomy in Saltzman's career: "Harry used to make great pictures; now he makes very successful ones. After all, you can't be an artist all your life." In early 1961, excited by reading the James Bond novel ''Goldfinger'', he made a bid to land film rights to the character. Saltzman co-founded Danjaq, S.A. with Albert R. Broccoli in 1962. It was a holding company responsible for the copyright and trademarks of James Bond on screen, and the parent company of Eon Productions, which they also set up as a film production company for the Bond films. The moniker Danjaq is a combination of Broccoli's and Saltzman's wives' first names, Dana and Jacqueline. In 1958, he had set up the production company Lowndes Productions,〔(Duedil: Lowndes Productions Limited ) Linked 2013-09-13〕 but he didn't use it for film production until 1965 and only used it for eight productions thereafter, among them his three Harry Palmer films with Michael Caine: ''The Ipcress File'' (1965), ''Funeral in Berlin'' (1966) and ''Billion Dollar Brain'' (1967). The company's last production came in 1988 and it was finally dissolved in 1992.〔 Saltzman produced other films between the James Bond and Harry Palmer productions. These include his World War II pet project ''Battle of Britain'' (1969), and ''Call Me Bwana'' (1963), the only film to be produced by Eon Productions outside of the James Bond franchise. Saltzman also attempted to make a film about Canadian Métis leader Cuthbert Grant.〔 In 1969 Saltzman borrowed 70 million Swiss Francs () from the Union Bank of Switzerland.〔 In 1970 Saltzman won control of the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation from chairman Patrick Frawley in a proxy fight. However by 1972 Saltzman reportedly had to sell off 370,000 shares of Technicolor stock to repay his loan from the Union Bank of Switzerland. ''Film Bulletin'' also claimed that some of Saltzman's former allies in the 1970 proxy had now forced Saltzman to sell the stocks - which they then purchased - and were now seeking to oust him from the Technicolor board. Saltzman filed several lawsuits against Technicolor executive board members claiming conspiracy "seeking to retain his positions in the firm." Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz claims Technicolor was selling at $30 per share when Saltzman took control of the company in 1970; it was selling at $8 a share by 1972 when Saltzman was ousted. At some point Saltzman defaulted on the interest payments to the Swiss Bank.〔 According to a 1978 court decision, Saltzman and Broccoli had allegedly agreed to dissolve Danjaq, S.A. in 1972 but Broccoli later allegedly refused to honour the agreement.〔 Saltzman then unsuccessfully attempted to have the Swiss courts dissolve the company.〔 By autumn that year, Saltzman's financial situation was "desperate."〔 In March 1974 the ''Los Angeles Times'' reported that Saltzman was attempting to sell Paramount Pictures his 50% share of the Bond film franchise. On 24 April 1978, Sir Patrick O'Connor of the British High Court ordered Saltzman to pay an American law firm () plus () in post-judgment interest and court costs. Saltzman had retained the firm to resolve his financial difficulties. Saltzman's 1970s productions also proved problematic. A science fiction musical ''Toomorrow'' starring Olivia Newton-John was withdrawn from release and resulted in several lawsuits. Also in 1970 Saltzman cancelled a planned film several weeks before shooting was to begin about the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky starring Rudolf Nureyev. Director Tony Richardson believed that Saltzman had overextended himself and did not have the funds to make the film. Throughout the 1970s Saltzman struggled to make a film of ''The Micronauts'' - a "shrunken man" science fiction story to have starred Gregory Peck and Lee Remick - investing much money into the doomed project that was finally shelved in the late 1970s. Due to numerous financial difficulties Saltzman sold his 50% stake in Danjaq to United Artists Corporation in 1975. Subsequently, his health also declined and he became depressed. In the early 1970s Saltzman's wife Jacqueline was diagnosed with terminal cancer. In 1972 the Saltzmans relocated to St. Petersburg, Florida where Jacqueline's sister lived.〔 In March 1977 Saltzman sold his English country mansion and moved full-time to St. Petersburg. Jacqueline Saltzman died on 31 January 1980 of cancer. In 1980 Saltzman purchased the theatrical production company H.M. Tennent Ltd. becoming its chairman. In 1982 Saltzman sold his 15 room Venetian Isles, St. Petersburg Florida home and moved back to London; now widowed, his two oldest children were out of school and his youngest was studying in Switzerland. Saltzman all but retired from the movie business thereafter. He had long desired to produce a film on the life of Vaslav Nijinsky, based on biographies, the rights to which he had acquired in the 1960s. He has an executive producer credit on the film ''Nijinsky'' in 1980 and the 1988 British-Italian-Yugoslavian co-production ''Time of the Gypsies''. In 1992 Saltzman dissolved H.M. Tennant. Saltzman was married three times. He was briefly married in California.〔 He then married Jacqueline.〔 Harry and Jacqueline Saltzman had three children: Hilary, Steven and Christopher.〔 Harry Saltzman subsequently married Adriana Ghinsberg. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry Saltzman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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