An assistant director and second-unit director by the early '50s, Howard Koch helmed his first film in 1954, the bad-cop drama Shield for Murder, co-directed by its star Edmond O'Brien. A series of genre films followed, most notably the campy women's-prison film Untamed Youth; the Wages of Fear remake Violent Road; the horror tale Frankenstein 1970, with Boris Karloff; and two films starring Mickey Rooney, Andy Hardy Comes Home (the final installment of MGM's durable series) and the death-row drama The Last Mile. Koch began producing in the '50s, making such films as the World War Two drama Beachhead and the chiller The Black Sleep. As executive producer for Frank Sinatra Enterprises in the early '60s, Koch made several Sinatra films, most notably The Manchurian Candidate. His other major efforts as producer include Theodore J. Flicker's The President's Analyst, Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the popular haunted romance Ghost, and the Neil Simon adaptations The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, and Last of the Red Hot Lovers.
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Frequency
Producer |
2000 | |||
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Keeping the Faith
Producer |
2000 | |||
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The Beautician and the Beast
Producer |
1997 | |||
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Primal Fear
Executive Producer |
1996 | |||
| 1995 | ||||
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Losing Isaiah
Producer |
1995 | |||
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Virtuosity
Executive Producer |
1995 | |||
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Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Participant |
1995 | |||
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Sliver
Executive Producer |
1993 | |||
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The Temp
Producer |
1993 | |||
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Wayne's World 2
Executive Producer |
1993 | |||
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Wayne's World
Executive Producer |
1992 | |||
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Necessary Roughness
Producer |
1991 | |||
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Collision Course
Producer |
1990 | |||
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Ghost
Producer |
1990 | |||
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Rooftops
Producer |
1989 | |||
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The Long Walk Home
Producer |
1989 | |||
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The Secret of My Success
Producer |
1987 | |||
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Danielle Steel's 'Crossings'
Producer |
1986 | |||
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The Pope of Greenwich Village
Producer |
1984 | |||
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A Night in Heaven
Producer |
1983 | |||
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Gorky Park
Producer |
1983 | |||
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The Keep
Producer |
1983 | |||
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Airplane II: The Sequel
Producer |
1982 | |||
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Some Kind of Hero
Producer |
1982 | |||
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Dragonslayer
Executive Producer |
1981 | |||
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Honky Tonk Freeway
Producer |
1981 | |||
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The Idolmaker
Producer |
1980 | |||
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The Frisco Kid
Executive Producer |
1979 | |||
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Harold Robbins' The Pirate
Producer |
1978 | |||
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Heaven Can Wait
Executive Producer |
1978 | |||
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The Other Side of Midnight
Executive Producer |
1977 | |||
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Marathon Man
First Assistant Director |
1976 | |||
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Once Is Not Enough
First Assistant Director, Producer |
1975 | |||
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The Drowning Pool
First Assistant Director, Producer |
1975 | |||
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Chinatown
First Assistant Director |
1974 | |||
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The Parallax View
First Assistant Director |
1974 | |||
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Badge 373
Director, Producer |
1973 | |||
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The Way We Were
First Assistant Director |
1973 | |||
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Bad Company
First Assistant Director |
1972 | |||
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Producer |
1972 | |||
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Up the Sandbox
First Assistant Director |
1972 | |||
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Fools' Parade
First Assistant Director |
1971 | |||
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Going Home
First Assistant Director |
1971 | |||
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Plaza Suite
Producer |
1971 | |||
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Something Big
First Assistant Director |
1971 | |||
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Star Spangled Girl
Producer |
1971 | |||
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The Hired Hand
First Assistant Director |
1971 | |||
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Getting Straight
First Assistant Director |
1970 | |||
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Producer |
1970 | |||
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The Baby Maker
First Assistant Director |
1970 | |||
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The Odd Couple
Producer |
1968 | |||
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The Fox
Screenwriter |
1967 | |||
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The President's Analyst
Executive Producer |
1967 | |||
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None But the Brave
Executive Producer, Producer |
1965 | |||
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Robin and the Seven Hoods
Executive Producer |
1964 | |||
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Come Blow Your Horn
Producer |
1963 | |||
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Sergeants 3
Executive Producer |
1962 | |||
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The Manchurian Candidate
Executive Producer |
1962 | |||
| 1960 | ||||
| 1960 | ||||
| 1960 | ||||
| 1960 | ||||
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Born Reckless
Director |
1959 | |||
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The Last Mile
Director |
1959 | |||
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Andy Hardy Comes Home
Director |
1958 | |||
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Fort Bowie
Director |
1958 | |||
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Frankenstein 1970
Director |
1958 | |||
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Violent Road
Director |
1958 | |||
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Bop Girl
Director |
1957 | |||
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Hell Bound
Producer |
1957 | |||
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Jungle Heat
Director |
1957 | |||
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Maverick: The Comstock Conspiracy
Director |
1957 | |||
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Pharaoh's Curse
Producer |
1957 | |||
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Revolt at Fort Laramie
Producer |
1957 | |||
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The Dalton Girls
Producer |
1957 | |||
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The Girl in Black Stockings
Director |
1957 | |||
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Tomahawk Trail
Producer |
1957 | |||
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Untamed Youth
Director |
1957 | |||
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Voodoo Island
Producer |
1957 | |||
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War Drums
Producer |
1957 | |||
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Crime Against Joe
Producer |
1956 | |||
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Emergency Hospital
Producer |
1956 | |||
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Hot Cars
Producer |
1956 | |||
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Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Producer |
1956 | |||
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Rebel in Town
Producer |
1956 | |||
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The Black Sleep
Producer |
1956 | |||
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The Broken Star
Producer |
1956 | |||
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Three Bad Sisters
Producer |
1956 | |||
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Big House, USA
Director |
1955 | |||
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Desert Sands
Producer |
1955 | |||
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Fort Yuma
Producer |
1955 | |||
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Ghost Town
Producer |
1955 | |||
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Beachhead
Producer |
1954 | |||
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Shield for Murder
Director |
1954 | |||
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The Yellow Tomahawk
Producer |
1954 | |||
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Julius Caesar
First Assistant Director |
1953 | |||
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War Paint
Producer |
1953 | |||
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East Side, West Side
First Assistant Director |
1949 | |||
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He Walked by Night
First Assistant Director |
1948 | |||
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T-Men
First Assistant Director |
1947 | |||
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In Our Time
Screenwriter |
1944 |

