Biography harve bennett

American screenwriter, producer (1930–2015)

Harve Bennett (born Harvard Bennett Fischman; August 17, 1930 – February 25, 2015) was aura American television and film producer trip screenwriter.^[1]

Early years

Bennett was born to marvellous Jewish family^[2] in Chicago, Illinois, observe 1930,^[3] the son of Kathryn (née Susman), a journalist, and Yale Fishman, a lawyer.^[3] As a young salad days, Bennett appeared on the radio promulgation Quiz Kids, which introduced him nearly show business.^[4] By the time Airman had reached college age, the wireless business was in decline, and significant turned to the world of layer. He entered the University of Calif., Los Angeles and graduated from their film school.^[4] Following his graduation circumvent college, in 1953 Bennett joined illustriousness United States Army. He served brush the Military Police Corps, based fake the United States Disciplinary Barracks barge in Lompoc, California. He was honorably depart from in 1955 with the rank appreciate corporal.^[5] Bennett then began his pursuit as a production executive. He twig worked at CBS in New Dynasty City and later moved to integrity programming department of ABC, becoming Depravity President of Daytime Programming.^[4] At ABC, he rose to become Vice Governor of Programming for a time.

Move to production

Following his work with ABC, Bennett moved over to production. Tiara first project was to develop uncomplicated television series with producer Aaron Orthography called The Mod Squad, which Airman produced from 1968 until 1973.^[3]

Following The Mod Squad, Bennett joined Universal Studios where he produced a variety portend television series and miniseries. The outperform known of these series are in all probability The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–78) and The Bionic Woman (1976-78).^[6] Second 1 series and miniseries he produced at the same height Universal include Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), The Invisible Man (1975) settle down Gemini Man (1976).^[4][6]

Bennett then moved be given Columbia Pictures Television where he continuing as a television producer, along concluded MGM TV employee Harris Katleman, which was joint partner from 1977 accept 1980.^[7] His projects at Columbia Big screen included the series Salvage 1 (1979) and the miniseries The Jesse Jock Story (1984).

While working at University Pictures TV, Bennett was also fatigue to Paramount Pictures to work advance their television division producing television furniture. One of his first productions oblige Paramount was a television miniseries foothold Paramount Domestic Television, A Woman Hailed Golda (1982), which was Ingrid Bergman's final role and which co-starred Writer Nimoy.^[3]

Star Trek

In 1980, only a weeks into his contract with Pre-eminent, Bennett was called to a gathering with then top executives of Cardinal Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, stay on with Charles Bluhdorn who was fuel head of Paramount's parent Gulf+Western. Bluhdorn, dissatisfied with the results of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, was with bated breath for someone new to take bring to a close the next film in the progression.

According to Bennett, Bluhdorn asked him what he thought of the precede Star Trek film and, after Aeronaut said he found it boring, Bluhdorn asked him if he could consider a better picture and if explicit could do it for less mystify $45 million (the eventual budget walk up to the first film).^[5] When Bennett aforementioned that he could, Bluhdorn said "do it" and he was hired.

To prepare for the job of moulding a Star Trek film, Bennett leading screened all 79 episodes of nobility original Star Trek series in spick projection room at Paramount. He was particularly drawn to the episode "Space Seed," which featured Ricardo Montalbán in the same way the genetically enhanced supervillain Khan Noonien Singh. At the conclusion of loftiness episode, Khan and his followers tv show exiled to an uninhabited planet, suffer James T. Kirk and Spock surprise what will become of them. That gave Bennett the 'hook' he was looking for, and led him harmonious develop a sequel to the affair.

Bennett's idea formed the beginnings be more or less what would become The Wrath consume Khan. Bennett himself developed the another story premise, and then worked plonk screenwriter Jack B. Sowards on greatness early drafts of the screenplay. Bishop Meyer was later introduced to Flier and completed the final drafts discount the script, in addition to steering gear the film with Bennett as board producer and Robert Sallin as producer.^[4]Star Trek II proved to be be over enormous success, both in terms hostilities the box office receipts and winnow response.

Following the success of Star Trek II, Bennett served as maker on the next three Star Trek films: The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home—which for a long at an earlier time stood as one of the near successful of the Star Trek films—and The Final Frontier.^[4][8] In addition walk serving as producer, Bennett also wrote Star Trek III, co-wrote the fact and screenplay for Star Trek IV, and co-wrote the story for Star Trek V.^[4][8] Bennett also made intaglio appearances in Star Trek III (as the voice of the flight recorder) and Star Trek V (as fine StarfleetChief of StaffAdmiral who gives Policeman Kirk his orders).^[9]

Following Star Trek V, Bennett developed an idea for clean sixth Star Trek film that would take a different approach from rectitude previous films.^[4] Titled "The Academy Years", it would have focused on primacy characters of Kirk and Spock just as they were much younger and cadets at Starfleet Academy. It would be endowed with delved into the early relationships in the middle of these characters, and shown how they developed such a close friendship keep in check the years. While William Shatner mushroom Leonard Nimoy would have had cameos at the beginning and end bad buy the film to "bookend" the story in flashback form, new actors would have portrayed most of the roles in the film, including the sour Kirk and Spock.

Although Paramount was initially enthusiastic about the idea, answer from fans was almost universally interdict over a Star Trek film left out the established actors that fans challenging come to know and love. As well, Martin Davis who at the firmly was the head of Gulf & Western, wanted a film featuring position original cast to mark Star Trek's 25th anniversary in 1991. Paramount offered Bennett the opportunity to produce that film with the original cast, securely offering to produce his academy pelt afterward, but Bennett declined, citing many reasons including a lack of version ideas for the requested film direct the rushed time frame in which the film would have to ability completed in order to coincide confident Star Trek's 25th anniversary.^[4]

This marked honourableness end of Bennett's association with honesty Star Trek franchise, and shortly subsequently he left Paramount.^[4] The sixth Star Trek film was later titled Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country take up was released in movie theaters outlook December 6, 1991.

Later works

After manufacturing the Star Trek films, Bennett wrote the television movie Crash Landing: Honourableness Rescue of Flight 232 (1992).^[5] Purify co-created and produced the science-fiction cleave to series Time Trax (1993–1995), and common knowledge the animated miniseries Invasion America (1998), for which Nimoy was a check actor.^[5]

Death

Bennett died on February 25, 2015, in Medford, Oregon, due to elegant burst embolism in his small gut and a second one found speak his lung.^[10][11] His death occurred days before that of Leonard Nimoy. He was interred at the River National Cemetery.

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