Menahem Golan

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Golan produced films starring Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, as well as Alan Golan's aborted attempt to bring Spider-Man to the silver screen. Golan also wrote and "polished" numerous film scripts under the pen name Joseph Goldman. Golan had produced over 200 films, directed 44, and received 8 "Kinor David" awards as well as "Israel Prize" in Cinema at the time of his death. For Franco Zeffirelli's Otello, he was nominated for the Best Foreign-Language Film at the British Academy of Film and Television Academy.

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Life and career

Born Menachem Globus in Tiberias, then British Mandate Palestine (now Israel), and his parents, who were Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. He spent his youth in Tiberias, then went on to study at the Old Vic School and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and filmmaking at New York University. Golan served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force during the 1948 Palestine war. Golan married Rachel (1930-2015), makeup artist and had three children, astute psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ruth Golan (born 1953), Naomi (1958-2015), and Yael (born 1964). Yoram Globus, an Israeli-American entrepreneur, was his cousin.

Golan died on the morning of August 8, 2014, while visiting Jaffa, Tel Aviv, with family members. He lost consciousness, and attempts to revive him didn't succeed. He was 85 years old when he died.

Film career

Golan began as an apprentice at Tel Aviv's Habima Theater. He staged plays in Israel after finishing his studies in theater. He gained experience as a filmmaker by serving as an assistant to Roger Corman.

Golan is perhaps best known as a producer for his film Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan, 1977), about the Israeli raid on Entebbe Airport in Uganda. In addition, Eskimo Limon (Lemon Popsicle, 1978), a film that spawned several sequels and an American remake, The Last American Virgin (1982).

The Magician of Lublin (1979) was a tribute to Isaac Bashevis Singer's book The Magician of Lublin (1979) was followed by the film The Apple (1980). The Apple also appears on lists of all-time favourite films, earning it cult film status, an unusual moral fable with a rock-disco soundtrack.

The Cannon Group, a Golan company, produced a long line of films in the 1980s and early 1990s, including Delta Force, Runaway Train, and several of the Death Wish sequels. Pathe Communications took over Cannon in 1986. In the last half of the 1980s, Golan made several comic book-style films, most notably Masters of the Universe, based on the toys of that name and inspired by Jack Kirby's comic book designs. Cannon gained notoriety in 1987 after its UK-based Superman IV: The Quest for Peace flopped in theaters and sparked a backlash from fans. In 1989, Golan resigned from Cannon, and by 1993, the company had disbanded. Golan became the director of 21st Century Film Corporation and made several low to medium-budget films following Cannon's demise.

In 1986 at Cannon Studios in the United Kingdom, Golan hoped to film Spider-Man and shoot the exteriors in Tel Aviv. When Dolph Lundgren appeared as J. Jonah Jameson, he was envisioned as the Green Goblin, and Spider-Man creator Stan Lee was invited to make a cameo as J. Jonah Jameson. Golan struggled for years to produce the Marvel Comics character, but he finally failed in 1996 after 21st Century Film Corporation, another company that had promised to finance the film), and Carolco Pictures, another company that had promised to help finance the film. In 2002, Sony Pictures acquired the Spider-Man rights and made the first film. Golan's adaptation of Crime and Punishment came out in the year.

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Awards and recognition

• 1978: Nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Operation Thunderbolt
• 1984: Won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Bolero
• 1986: Nomination for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Cobra
• 1987: Nomination for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Tough Guys don't dance
• In 1999, Golan was awarded the Israel Prize for his contribution to cinema.
• In 1994 Golan was awarded the Ophir Prize of the Israeli Film Academy for his Lifetime Achievement.
• The movie theater in the Azrieli building in Tel Aviv bore the name of the Golan-Globus company. It was closed in 2008.