Walter Mirisch, the astute and Oscar winning film producer who oversaw such classics as 'Some Like It Hot,' 'West Side Story' and 'In the Heat of the Night,' has died of natural causes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Saturday. He was 101.
Walter Mirisch arrives at 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival's Opening Night Gala at the TCL Chinese Theatre on April 10, 2014, in Los Angeles. Mirisch, the astute and Oscar winning film producer who oversaw such classics as "Some Like It Hot," "West Side Story" and "In the Heat of the Night," has died of natural causes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. He was 101.
Born eight years before the first Academy Awards ceremony, he served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1973 to 1977 and received two honorary Oscars, in 1978 and 1983, for his body of work and his humanitarian efforts. Mirisch entered the movie business in his teens, advancing from usher to management jobs with a theater chain before going on to production work on low-budget action flicks and Westerns in the late 1940s.
Mirisch was willing to take on unusual projects. A Harvard-trained business executive, he efficiently oversaw the commerce side of things, allowing his filmmakers to concentrate on their movies. The Mirisch brothers adjusted their management style film by film, depending on the level of oversight they felt a director wanted or needed. In a 1972 interview in the journal "Films and Filming," Mirisch said some directors worked well as their own producers, while others showed little interest beyond the actual filmmaking.
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