Hillard Elkins

Tv and Film Producer

Male

Born Oct 18, 1929

Hometown New York City

Died Dec 1, 2010

Hillard Elkins (October 18, 1929 – December 1, 2010) was an American theatre and film producer. Born in Brooklyn in New York City, Elkins attended Erasmus Hall and Midwood High Schools and Brooklyn College. At the age of eighteen he already had his degree… Read More

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HILLARD ELKINS and SANDI LOVE at the premiere screening of TCM'S new documentary 'STEVE MCQUEEN: ...

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Claire Bloom
Married 1969

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"A Moment In The Sun": An Extended Interview With Independent Filmmaker ... Democracy Now
Google News - Jul 04, 2011

HILLARD ELKINS: You ain't no law! You got to slip around the real law. You just got guns is all. You're just thugs. HICKEY: Yeah, maybe you're right, sonny. We just got guns. You still gotta hand in them goods. MRS. ELKINS: Hillard, you get up from
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'A Revealing Window' Jewish Exponent
Google News - Apr 21, 2011

They quarreled over some production details (according to author Lambert, there was lots of bad feeling as the musical germinated, most of it generated by producer Hillard Elkins' back stage skullduggery); still, the bad feeling between the team
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Hillard Elkins, Producer, Is Dead At 81
NYTimes - Dec 07, 2010

Hillard Elkins, a producer who broke down sexual barriers and created one of the biggest hits in Broadway history when he brought the erotic revue ''Oh! Calcutta!'' to the stage, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81. The cause was a heart attack, his wife, Sandi Love, said. Mr. Elkins started out in the mailroom at William Morris
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Robert Culp, Actor In 'I Spy' Tv Hit, Dies At 79
NYTimes - Mar 25, 2010

Robert Culp, who teamed with Bill Cosby as a secret agent in the hit 1960s television series ''I Spy'' and starred as one of the sexually adventurous title characters in the 1969 film ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,'' died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 79. His agent, Hillard Elkins, said that Mr. Culp apparently died of a heart attack after
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CHILDHOOD

1929 Birth Born in 1929.

TWENTIES

1953 24 Years Old After serving in the Korean War by making training films in Manhattan, he returned to agency work, but in 1953 left to open his own management company, where he represented James Coburn, Robert Culp, Steve McQueen, Mel Brooks, Herbert Ross, Charles Strouse, and Lee Adams.

THIRTIES

1962 33 Years Old Elkins turned to Broadway theatre producing in 1962 with the Garson Kanin play Come on Strong. … Read More

FORTIES

1972 43 Years Old Elkins was the subject of a 1972 book, The Producer by Christopher Davis.

LATE ADULTHOOD

2010 81 Years Old Died in 2010.

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