Ted Kotcheff
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William Theodore Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television producer best known for his work on British and American television shows including Armchair Theatre and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
He has also produced several hit films, including the Australian Wake in Fright (1971), action films like First Blood (1982) and Uncommon Valor (1983), and comedies such as Weekend at Bernie's (1977), and North Dallas Forty (1979).
William T. Kotcheff is often credited as William T. Kotcheff, and he lives in Beverly Hills, California.
Kotcheff has Bulgarian citizenship, despite his ancestry.
Early life
In official documents, Kotcheff was named William Theodore Kotcheff in Toronto, where he was born into a Bulgarian immigrant family who changed their last name from Tsochev (Bulgarian: оев) to Kotcheff for convenience. His father was born in Plovdiv, while his mother, who was of Macedonian Bulgarian origins, was born in Vambel, Greece, but she grew up in Varna, Bulgaria.
Personal life
Kotcheff and his partner, Laifun, live in Beverly Hills. Alexandra, a film maker, and Thomas, a composer and pianist, have two children. He has three children from his previous marriage to actress Sylvia Kaye: Aaron, Katrina, and Joshua.
He was invited to the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television in New York City in May and June 2013 for a re-release of his film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
On a visit to Bulgaria in March 2016, Kotcheff applied for Bulgarian citizenship through the Bulgarian consulate in Los Angeles, and was given this privilege on a visit to Bulgaria in March.
Kotcheff served on the Board of Directors of the Macedonian Arts Council, reflecting his Macedonian roots. There is no difference between Macedonian and Bulgarian, according to Per Kotcheff himself.
Career
Kotcheff began his television career at the age of twenty-four when he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with television still very popular in the United States. Kotcheff was the youngest director on the CBC, where he spent two years on shows including GM Theatre, Encounter, First Performance, and On Camera.
In 1958, he left Canada to live and work in the United Kingdom. He was soon followed by compatriot Sydney Newman, who had been the Director of Drama at the CBC and then to the United Kingdom to take up a similar role at ABC Weekend TV, one of the network's franchisees who also produced a large portion of the channel's nationally broadcasted programs.
Kotcheff was a producer on the hit Armchair Theatre anthology drama program, on which Kotchef served as a director from 1957 to 1960, according to ABC. Kotcheff was responsible for some of the series's best-remembered instalments. When one of the actors, Gareth Jones, who was supposed to die of a heart attack, died of one himself, on stage, leaving Peter Bowles and others to improvise.
Kotcheff directed No Trams to Lime Street by Welsh playwright Alun Owen the following year. Clive Exton's Hour of Mystery, I'll Have You to Remember (1961), and BBC Sunday-Night Play, ITV Television Playhouse, Espionage, First Night, ABC Stage 67, Drama 61-67, and ITV Playhouse were among his many titles.
Kotcheff has also worked in theatres.
Tiara Tahiti (1962) made Kotcheff's first feature film. During the decade, he went on to produce Life at the Top (1965) and Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969).
Ingrid Bergman from a story by Jean Cocteau and TV remakes of The Desperate Hours (1967) and Of Mice and Men (1968), he also produced The Human Voice (1967) for British television, starring Ingrid Bergman from a story by Jean Cocteau and TV remakes of The Desperate Hours (1967) and Of Mice and Men (1968). At the Drop of Another Hat, he produced a television performance.
Wake in Fright, a Kotcheff directed the Australian film Wake in Fright (USA: Outback, 1971; re-released with its original name, 2012). It received acclaim in Europe, and it was Australia's entry into the Cannes Film Festival. Wake in Fright was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray disc in a fully restored version in 2009).
Kotcheff returned to television, directing the Play for Today's Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971) for the BBC, which earned him a British Academy Television Award for Best Director. In a survey of industry professionals conducted by the British Film Institute in 2000, the play was named one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programs of the twentieth century.
He returned to Canada, where he directed an adaptation of his brother and one-time housemate Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), which received the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, making it the first English Canadian dramatic feature film to win an international award.
He wrote and produced The Trial of Sinyavsky and Daniel (1975) for Canadian television, and he was a production consultant on Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977).
He migrated to Hollywood. He produced Fun With Dick and Jane (1977), which was a big success. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) then wrote and directed North Dallas Forty (1979), which was critically acclaimed.
Split Image (1982), Kotcheff's first film about cults, became his biggest hit to date with the Sylvester Stallone film First Blood (1982), the first in the Rambo series. He appeared in another Vietnam-themed action film Uncommon Valor (1983), then moved to Canada to make Joshua Then and Now (1985), Mordecai Richler's book Joshua Then and Now (1985).
In 1988, Kotcheff directed Switching Channels (1988) and Winter People (1989), who then had a big success with Weekend at Bernie's (1989).
Kotcheff returned to television in the 1990s, appearing on countless American television shows, including Red Shoe Diaries and Buddy Faro, as well as British Casualty.
Folks was one of his rare feature film. (1992) and The Shooter (1995). What Are Families for? Love on the Run (1993), The Runaway (1994), A Husband, a Wife, and a Lover (1995), Borrowed Hearts (1997), Cry Rape (1999). He joined the staff of Law & Order: The Special Victims Unit, where he serves as executive producer and director.