Jules Buck

{{Short description|American film producer (1917–2001)}} {{Use American English|date=June 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2021}} '''Jules Buck''' (July 30, 1917 – July 19, 2001) was an American film producer.

==Career== He was a cameraman for John Huston's war documentaries and began producing as assistant to Mark Hellinger.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

In 1952 he moved to Paris, then London, where he created, in association with Peter O'Toole, the company Keep Films.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/vexed-in-venice/ |title=Vexed in Venice |work=T Magazine |publisher=New York Times |date=November 30, 2011 |access-date=July 2, 2012}}</ref> This produced movies such as ''Lord Jim'' (1963), ''Becket'' (1963), and ''What's New Pussycat?'' (1965).{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

==Personal life== Buck was born in St Louis, Missouri, on July 30, 1917. From his 1945 marriage to actress Joyce Gates (née Joyce Ruth Getz), Buck had one child, journalist Joan Juliet Buck. He died in Paris on July 19, 2001.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

==Partial filmography== *''Report from the Aleutians'' (1943), cameraman *''The Battle of San Pietro'' (1944), cameraman *''The Killers'' (1946), assistant producer *''Brute Force'' (1947), associate producer *''The Naked City'' (1948), associate producer *''We Were Strangers'' (1949), associate producer *''Fixed Bayonets!'' (1951), producer *''Love Nest'' (1951), producer *''Treasure of the Golden Condor'' (1953), producer *''O.S.S.'' (1957–58), TV series producer *''The Day They Robbed the Bank of England'' (1960), producer *''Lord Jim'' (1965), associate producer *''Great Catherine'' (1968) *''Under Milk Wood'' (1972), executive producer *''The Ruling Class'' (1972), producer *''The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday'' (1976), producer

==References== {{reflist}}

==Further reading== *Agee, James, ''Agee on Film'' *Ambler, Eric, ''Here Lies'' *Halliwell, Leslie, ''Halliwell's Filmgoers Companion'' *Katz, Ephraim, ''The Film Encyclopedia''

==External links== * {{IMDb name|118378}}

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