C.O. Erickson

Born: 1923-12-17

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.


See
Placeholder

Chinatown

as Customer
Released: 1974-06-20

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II...

Movie page
as Bank Guard Herman
Released: 1993-02-11

A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish...

Movie page
See!

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

as Self
Released: 2001-04-03

Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most...

Movie page

The Making of 'To Catch a Thief'

as Self
Released: 2002-11-05

Documentary of the making of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1955 tale.

Movie page

Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece

as Self
Released: 1997-06-01

A documentary about the making and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo."...

Movie page

Making 'The Misfits'

as Self - Production Manager
Released: 2002-10-02

A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).

Movie page