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Happy Birthday Walter Mirisch: Oldest Living Oscar Winner With Films Like ‘West Side Story’, ‘The Apartment’, ‘In The Heat Of The Night’ Turns 100 Today

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After the 2020 death of Olivia DeHavilland (at age 104) Walter Mirisch became the oldest currently living winner of an Academy Award.

Today this legendary producer turns 100 years old and is still going strong.If for some crazy reason you don’t know the name, let me tell you the Mirisch Corporation, which he founded with brothers Harold and Marvin, was sort of the Marvel of its time except it was about much more than comic book superheros, a true independent in the studio system, that turned out hit after hit, many winning Oscars, that provided a safe haven for some of the great filmmakers of the time including Billy Wilder, John Sturges, Robert Wise, Norman Jewison, Blake Edwards, Hal Ashby, George Roy Hill, not to mention films directed

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