Biography Saul_Swimmer

1 biography

1.1 life , career
1.2 music , film
1.3 later career
1.4 death

biography
early life , career

born uniontown, pennsylvania, family included sister, esther, , 3 brothers, wolford , alvin, , herbert, swimmer earned bachelor s degree carnegie mellon university in nearby pittsburgh. began directing in twenties, gaining attention half-hour children s short boy owned melephant (1959), narrated actress tallulah bankhead , produced peter gayle , tony anthony, become frequent collaborators. swimmer s biography @ company s website states film won gold leaf award @ venice film festival, claim subsequently appears in many accounts, festival has no such award; in actuality, award venice international children s film festival.

following short, swimmer directed and, anthony, co-wrote independent features force of impulse (1961), romeo , juliet story high school football player turns robbery, filmed in miami beach, florida, , without each other (1962).

music , film

following these dramas, swimmer directed pop-musical comedy mrs. brown, ve got lovely daughter (1968), starring british pop group herman s hermits. movie 1 of handful of similar films released in wake of beatles mockumentary-style band feature hard day s night (1964) , comic adventure help! (1965).

he broke documentary filmmaking abc television special around world of mike todd (1968), movie producer mike todd.

after serving co-producer of neil aspinall-mal evans-produced beatles documentary let (1970), swimmer , indie-movie colleague tony anthony co-wrote , co-directed surrealistic us-italy road movie come (1971), produced beatle ringo starr , inspired beatles song come ; , produced spaghetti western blind deadly gunfighter, blindman (1971; known il ciceo , il pistolero ciceo), starring anthony , starr.

the following year, swimmer directed concert bangladesh, organized beatle george harrison ravi shankar. along starr, eric clapton, bob dylan, billy preston, leon russell , others performed raise money charity unicef, earmarked aid refugees newly independent nation of bangladesh, former east pakistan, had relocated india.

in 1977, swimmer directed u.s.-spain co-production black pearl (a.k.a. la perla negra), adapted scott o dell children s novel. produced , directed direct-to-video rock documentary rock you: queen live in concert (1982), record of 1981 montreal, canada show.

later career

swimmer developed mobilevision projection system, pre-imax giant-screen technology projecting movies on 60x80-foot screen. swimmer said after 1991 death of queen lead singer freddie mercury, movilevision distributed rock in 20 countries.

his final work documentary bob marley & friends, completed in 2005 , distributed beginning in 2006 after swimmer worked on more 5 years, using footage of 1977 rainbow concert in london, england had been discovered in london storage vault bombed irish republican army. 2007.

death

swimmer, moved miami-area key biscayne, florida, in 1980s , nearby coral gables, florida in 1990s, died of heart failure @ mount sinai medical center in miami on march 3, 2007.