• Lew Grade, Baron Grade, OStJ (born Lev Winogradsky; 25 December 1906 – 13 December 1998) was a Russian-born British media proprietor and impresario. Originally...
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  • Raise the Titanic is a 1980 adventure film produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and directed by Jerry Jameson. The film, written by Eric Hughes (adaptation)...
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  • Grade Organisation (also known as Lew and Leslie Grade Ltd) with his elder brother, the impresario and producer Lew Grade (1906–98). During the 1940s, the...
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    the theatrical agent Leslie Grade, and his uncles were the impresarios Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont. When he was three years old, his non-Jewish mother...
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    to Italy to make the adventure comedy Romulus and the Sabines (1961). Lew Grade cast Moore as Simon Templar in a new adaptation of The Saint, based on...
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  • Amis, from a story by John Barry. Though a British production, made by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and shot at Shepperton Studios, the film has an American...
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    he had a long and successful association with media impresario Lew Grade and Grade's company ITC, continuing until the second series of Space: 1999....
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  • production and distribution of television programmes. Television mogul Lew Grade set up the Incorporated Television Programme Company (ITP) with Prince...
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  • Honeydew was not specifically Lew Grade when we did him. It would have been easy to make him much more like Lew Grade if we had tried to and, in retrospect...
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    was McGoohan's last stage appearance for 28 years. Production executive Lew Grade soon approached McGoohan about a television series where he would play...
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  • would offer greater scope for storylines. The idea was put to Head of ATV Lew Grade but he was not enthusiastic as the series lacked a leading American, which...
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  • which is liable to collapse. With the backing of the media tycoon Sir Lew Grade (the head of the British broadcast network Associated Television) and...
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  • and would make the movie in association with Lew Grade. Fryer had just made Voyage of the Damned for Grade. According to producer Martin Richards, Robert...
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  • themselves. It was written and directed by Peter Hyams and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. It stars Elliott Gould as the reporter, and James...
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  • networks in the United States rejected Henson's proposals, British producer Lew Grade expressed enthusiasm for the project and agreed to co-produce The Muppet...
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  • agent, Lew Grade signed him as a client. By 1955 he was performing with the George Mitchell Singers in Blackpool, with the impresario Lew Grade as his...
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  • project struck some as blasphemous, others as ecumenical. Lord Grade, then Sir Lew Grade, presided over a massive press conference in the Holy City, (Rome)...
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  • aviation pioneer Leslie Grade (1916–1979), British theatrical agent Lew Grade, Baron Grade (1906–1998), British impresario Michael Grade (born 1943), British...
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  • then known as The Athena Boodle as part of a $97 million slate of movies Lew Grade was making which also included The Legend of the Lone Ranger, Movie Movie...
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    bought by Associated Television director Lew Grade, and in 1966 was renamed "Century 21 Productions". Grade's purchase of AP Films was immediately followed...
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  • Man in 1960', as well as 'the most ambitious and most expensive of Sir Lew Grade's international action adventure series'. The Persuaders! was filmed in...
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  • made; production ended with the sixth episode of the second series after Lew Grade, APF's financial backer, failed in his efforts to sell the programme to...
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  • the major U.S. networks, Landau and Bain were cast at the insistence of Lew Grade over the objections of Sylvia Anderson, who wanted British actors. Also...
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  • family. His brothers, Lew Grade and Leslie Grade, also entered show business and formed the Grade Organisation. Their sister, Rita Grade, later wrote a book...
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  • were filmed on Holkham Beach in Norfolk. The film was a success, with Lew Grade saying "it made quite a lot of money". ITC made two more films with the...
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  • and spy fiction. It was produced by Everyman Films for distribution by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. A single series of 17 episodes was filmed between...
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  • to the series' producer, Lew Grade, that he should meet Pope Paul VI, and subsequently did so at his wife's insistence. Grade and his wife Kathie had a...
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  • “old”, (she was meant to be in her early twenties) but it turned out Lew Grade had already contracted Ann Archer, a good actress in her mid thirties...
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  • It went to The Rank Organisation before eventually finding finance via Lew Grade. Michael Winner said that an American was meant to adapt it, but he did...
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  • Edwards nor Peter Sellers, whose careers had declined. British producer Lew Grade agreed to finance two films for Blake Edwards as part of a deal to get...
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