Elliott Kastner

Elliott Kastner (January 7, 1930 – June 30, 2010) was an American film producer, whose best known credits include Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Long Goodbye (1973), The Missouri Breaks (1976) and Angel Heart (1987).

According to one obituary he:

Early life and education

Kastner was born to a Jewish family in New York City. His father died when he was young and he was raised by his mother in Harlem.

He attended the University of Miami and Columbia University. During the 1950s he was stationed with U.S. Eucom (United States European Command), in Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France.

Career

Kastner worked in the mail room at William Morris Agency in New York, becoming a literary agent.

He moved to Los Angeles and became a talent agent at the Music Corporation of America (MCA). When that agency merged with Decca Records, which owned Universal Pictures, Lew Wasserman, the president of MCA, made Katner vice president of production at Universal. He worked there for two years before becoming an independent producer.

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