{"id":12919,"date":"2011-09-14T06:32:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T05:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=12919"},"modified":"2011-09-14T06:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T05:32:59","slug":"john-calley-1930-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/09\/14\/john-calley-1930-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"John Calley (1930 – 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Veteran studio executive John Calley<\/strong> has died aged 81.<\/p>\n

Often actors and directors (rightly) get the acclaim when a film is\u00a0successful\u00a0but often they need a patron and key supporter within the studio system.<\/p>\n

For over four decades Calley performed this role, first during a golden period at Warner Bros. in the 1970s and later on in the 1990s at MGM\/United Artists and then Sony Pictures.<\/p>\n

After attending Columbia University and serving in the army, he worked at NBC in New York and from\u00a01960 was an associate producer at Filmways Inc., where he produced films such The Loved One (1965) and Catch-22 (1970).<\/p>\n

But it was when he joined Warner Bros. in 1969 as executive vice president in charge of production, that he presided over a a stream of indelible films, some of which rank amongst the finest to be released at a major studio.<\/p>\n

Amongst the films he backed and oversaw the release of such films as Woodstock<\/a> (1970), A Clockwork Orange<\/a> (1971), Dirty Harry<\/a> (1971), Deliverance<\/a> (1972), Badlands<\/a> (1973), Mean Streets<\/a> (1973), The Exorcist<\/a> (1973), Dog Day Afternoon<\/a> (1975), Barry Lyndon<\/a> (1975), All the President’s Men<\/a> (1976), Superman<\/a> (1978) and Chariots of Fire (1981).<\/p>\n

Here he talks about the time Kubrick asked him to send him some rear projection cameras so that he could give Barry Lyndon it’s distinctive look:<\/p>\n