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Ralph Frederick Winter (born April 24, 1952) is an American film producer who has helped to produce blockbuster movies such as the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Star Trek series as well as I, Robot and Planet of the Apes.
Ralph Winter Active - 1984 - 2022 | Born - Apr 24, 1952 | Genres - Action , Adventure , Thriller Filmography ↓
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Ralph Winter (born 24 April 1952; age 72) is a Hollywood film producer who got his start on the Star Trek movies.
After serving as an uncredited post-production supervisor on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, he worked as an associate producer for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. He then became an executive producer on the next two films, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, before serving as the producer of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. His work on The Search for Spock earned Winter a 1985 Saturn Award nomination in the category Best Special Effects as sole nominee.
A 1974 graduate from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor's degree in the liberal arts and history, Ralph Winter started out his career in 1978 at Paramount Television as a post-production coordinator, and at Paramount Pictures as a a post-production supervisor, during which time he worked on his first Star Trek movie. He left the employment of Paramount in 1982 to work as a free-lance producer, yet to work on their subsequent Star Trek productions, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Other movies he worked on during his freelance years as producer included Explores (1986, also for Paramount as visual effects coordinator and earning him a second Saturn Award nomination for Best Special Effects, shared with Bruce Nicholson) and Flight of the Intruder (1991). In 1991 he joined The Walt Disney Company as producer and worked for them on the movies Captain Ron (1992), Hackers (1995), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and Inspector Gadget (1999). For 20th Century Fox, he joined in 1999, he was also a producer for X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2003) and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), starring Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen and Rebecca Romijn, excluding Wolverine in Romijn's case. Other productions originating from the Marvel stable were Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2009).
In 2000 Winter received a DVD Exclusive Award co-nomination in the category Best Live-Action Video Premiere for the direct-to-DVD movie Left Behind. Winter was also an executive producer for Planet of the Apes (2001, featuring Cary-Hiroyuki, David Warner and Michael Jace) and a producer for 2005's Fantastic Four as well as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. He also produced William Shatner's Shoot or Be Shot and LeVar Burton's Blizzard.
•Star Trek DVD and Blu-ray special features:
•Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "Production: On Location" (2003)
•Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "Production: Star Trek V Press Conference" (2003)
•Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection-special feature, "The Three-Picture Saga" (2009)
•Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Blu-ray)-special feature, "The Three-Picture Saga" (2009)
•Print publications:
Ralph Frederick Winter (born April 24, 1952) is an American film producer who has helped to produce blockbuster movies such as the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Star Trek series as well as I, Robot and Planet of the Apes. His films have grossed collectively over $2 billion (USD).
Birth Details. April 24, 1952. Glendale, California. Famous Works. CREDITS. Film Work. Executive Producer. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (also known as The Voyage Home: Star Trek IV ), Paramount, 1986. (With others) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Paramount, 1989. (With others) Flight of the Intruder, Paramount, 1991.
Jun 30, 2010 · Ralph Winter was both a participant and witness to Trek history, as he rose through the ranks at Paramount during the original series era of Star Trek films in the 80s, eventually becoming...
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