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name: "Martin Poll"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 November 1922"
died: "14 April 2012"
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# Martin Poll

Producer. Born 24 November 1922 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Died 14 April 2012.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 November 1922, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 14 April 2012
- **Also known as:** Martin H. Poll, Martin Harvey Poll
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Poll, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6776391, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689347/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70259

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Lion in Winter*](https://film.one/film/the-lion-in-winter.md) (81)

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## Biography

Martin Poll (1922–2012) was an American film and television producer. Born in Manhattan, New York City, he began his career in 1954 by producing 39 half-hour episodes of the Flash Gordon television series in Europe. He later restored the former Biograph Studios in the Bronx, reopening it as Gold Medal Studios, which became one of the largest film production facilities outside Hollywood and hosted productions including Elia Kazan's *A Face in the Crowd* (1957) and Daniel Mann's *Butterfield 8* (1960).

Poll produced the 1968 film *The Lion in Winter*, starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, which received nine Academy Award nominations and won three, including Best Actress for Hepburn. He received a nomination for Best Picture as producer. His other feature credits include *Night Watch* (1973), *Love and Death* (1975) and *Nighthawks* (1981). He also produced television projects such as the 1993 film *Diana: Her True Story* and served as executive producer on the 2003 television remake of *The Lion in Winter*.

*Sources: imdb.com, latimes.com, nytimes.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Lion in Winter* (1968), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-in-winter.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Lion in Winter* (2003), Executive Producer
- *Diana: Her True Story* (1993), Executive Producer
- *My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys* (1991), Producer
- *Haunted Summer* (1988), Producer
- *Arthur the King* (1985), Producer
- *Nighthawks* (1981), Producer
- *The Fantastic Seven* (1979), Producer
- *Somebody Killed Her Husband* (1978), Producer
- *The Dain Curse* (1978), series, Producer
- *The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea* (1976), Producer
- *Love and Death* (1975), Executive Producer
- *Night Watch* (1973), Producer
- *The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing* (1973), Producer
- *The Possession of Joel Delaney* (1972), Producer
- *The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart* (1970), Producer
- *The Appointment* (1969), Producer
- *The Lion in Winter* (1968), Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-in-winter.md)
- *Sylvia* (1965), Producer
- *Love is a Ball* (1963), Producer
- *The Big Fun Carnival* (1957), Executive Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1969: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Lion in Winter*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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