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Joel Freeman. Producer: Shaft. From the original Shaft to Love at First Bite, from Camelot to Soapdish, from top-grossing films to television to the Internet, Joel Freeman has built a reputation that spans over half a century of entertainment history. He was born on June 12, 1922 in Irvington, New Jersey, USA. The son of Louis Freeman, a baker and inventor, and Frances Schary. His mother died ...
- June 12, 1922
- January 21, 2018
Jan 26, 2018 · Updated January 25, 2018. , a veteran producer behind such films as Shaft, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Love at First Bite, has died. He was 95 and passed away Sunday night after a long battle ...
Budget. $500,000 [2] Box office. $13 million [3] Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman [4] and John D. F. Black. [5] It is an adaptation of Tidyman's novel of the same name and is the first entry in the Shaft film series. The plot revolves around a private ...
Jan 25, 2018 · Joel Freeman, producer of more than 100 films including “Shaft” and “Love at First Bite,” died on Jan. 21. He was 95. Freeman died at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif., after a long battle ...
Joel Freeman. Producer: Shaft. From the original Shaft to Love at First Bite, from Camelot to Soapdish, from top-grossing films to television to the Internet, Joel Freeman has built a reputation that spans over half a century of entertainment history. He was born on June 12, 1922 in Irvington, New Jersey, USA. The son of Louis Freeman, a baker and inventor, and Frances Schary. His mother died ...
- June 12, 1922
- January 21, 2018
Jan 26, 2018 · Joel Freeman, producer of more than 100 films including "Camelot," died on Sunday at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Joel Freeman Dead: 'Shaft,' 'Love at First Bite' Producer Dies at 95
An American producer who began his career as an MGM messenger, Freeman then became an assistant director after gaining experience in the Air Force’s First Motion Picture Unit during World War Two. After breaking into producing after proving himself on Camelot (1967) he notably made Finian’s Rainbow (1968) Shaft (1971), and The Octagon (1980). Read The Hollywood Reporter on Joel Freeman here.
