C.O. Erickson

Known for ProductionBorn 1923-12-17Died 2017-06-28Kankakee, Illinois, USA

Clarence Oscar "C. O." Erickson (December 17, 1923 – June 28, 2017) was an American film producer and production manager who had nearly 60 years of experience working in Hollywood. Born in Kankakee, Illinois on December 17, 1923, Erickson began his career at Paramount Pictures in 1944, ultimately working his way up to production manager. Among the productions he managed during his time at Paramount were all five of the films that director Alfred Hitchcock made for the studio in the 1950s: Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and Vertigo (1958). Erickson left Paramount to work with screenwriter and director John Huston as production manager on The Misfits (1961) and Freud: The Secret Passion (1962). He later reteamed with Huston as associate producer of Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967). He was also associate producer of Richard C. Sarafian's Man in the Wilderness (1971) and Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), both of which featured Huston in supporting acting roles. Erickson later served as both executive producer and production manager on several popular films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Urban Cowboy (1980), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Groundhog Day (1993). He was also the executive producer of Robert Altman's Popeye (1980) and executive in charge of production of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). His later film credits included Kiss the Girls (1997), Return to Me (2000) and Windtalkers (2002). Erickson died in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 28, 2017, due to heart complications. He was 93. Description above from the Wikipedia article C.O. Erickson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Chinatown

Groundhog Day

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

Obsessed with Vertigo

Whiffs

Marilyn Monroe Declassified

The Making of 'To Catch a Thief'

Making 'The Misfits'

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Cleopatra

Return to Me

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

The Misfits

Magic

Secret Admirer

55 Days at Peking

There Was a Crooked Man...

Kiss the Girls

Windtalkers

Urban Cowboy

Cloak & Dagger

Freud: The Secret Passion

Reflections in a Golden Eye

The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Lonely Guy

Black Sheep

Antitrust

The Wild Life

Man in the Wilderness

Circus World

Disturbing Behavior

Zorro, The Gay Blade

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

Carol for Another Christmas

Popeye

Blankman

Stuart Saves His Family

I Will, I Will...For Now