Albert Band(1924-2002)
- Producer
- Director
- Actor
A veteran filmmaker, Albert Band is one of Hollywood's most prolific
filmmakers who started his career in the early 50s. He began financing
a number of motion pictures through the seventies and eighties and
helped his son, Charles Band, bring together his own production company,
'Empire Pictures', in the early eighties. Upon the collapse of Empire
Pictures in the early nineties, Band continued to work with his son and
help bring a number of low-budget and medium budget films to the
Hollywood screen and sopme direct to video releases. Albert Band died
in June of 2002 of stomach and lung cancer. His other son, Richard Band, is
a film music composer for a number of motion pictures.
