Archer King, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Archer King

American actor and director

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1917

Date of Death: 19-Jul-2012

Profession: actor, theater director

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Archer King

  • Archer King (February 27, 1917, New York City, New York – July 19, 2012, New York City) was an American theatrical agent, producer and actor.King acted in the Broadway productions Summer Night and Stop Press in 1939.
  • These were followed by service in World War II.
  • After the war, he returned to the theatre and produced a number of Broadway plays, including Two Blind Mice by Sam Spewack and Miracle in the Mountains by Ferenc Molnár.
  • In 1951, he was hired as head of talent at CBS.
  • In 1952, he became an agent with the Louis Shurr Agency.King started his own agency in 1957.
  • He is credited with discovering James Dean, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Martin Sheen, Paul Mazursky, Elizabeth Montgomery, Tommy Tune and Ron Howard.
  • He has represented clients such as John Cassavetes, Broderick Crawford, Bette Midler, Dorothy Malone, Alexis Smith and Tommy Tune.In 1963, Archer King Ltd, under Kanawha Films Ltd., acquired and distributed a number of foreign films, including Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water and Volker Schlondorff's Young Torless.
  • Both films were nominated for Academy Awards. From 1979 to 1986, while retaining his agents' franchise, he became the head of production of the Theater-to-Television' Division of RKO Pictures.
  • There he acquired and produced Sweeney Todd starring Angela Lansbury, which won an Ace Award for Best Production, The Gin Game, starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, I Do! I Do! starring Lee Remick and Hal Linden, and Lena Horne's one-woman show "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music.

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