Si Litvinoff(1929-2022)
- Producer
- Production Manager
Si Litvinoff optioned Anthony Burgess"s novel "A Clockwork Orange" in
1965 and immediately got the book to Stanley Kubrick. While paying for
screenplays by Burgess, Terry Southern and Michael Cooper and
continuing option payments all those years he tried to get financing
with Mick Jagger starring and several known directors until having no
commitment from Kubrick, he chose Nic Roeg. When Max L Raab agreed to
provide 1 million dollars to produce the film with Roeg directing
Jagger in the lead from the Southern screenplay, Kubrick decided that
he wanted to direct it. Warner Brothers agreed to finance it and
Litvinoff made the deal and used the million dollars to produce
"Walkabout" directed by Roeg.
Prior to film production Litvinoff was for 12 years a New York City lawyer who represented many iconic figures including artists Andy Warhol, Jim Dine and Jack Youngerman, writers Terry Southern, Jack Gelber, actors Joel Grey, Beatrice Arthur, Rip Torn, Delphine Seyrig and Orson Bean, directors Shirley Clarke, Gene Saks agents Peter Witt and Toby Cole, theatre producers Ted Mann and his Circle in the Square, Lucille Lortel and her Theater De Lys. Also more than 50 stage productions as well as The Theater Studio of New York and The Cecilwood Playhouse where Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Peter Fonda and Ron Rifkind amongst others began.
His own stage productions include "I and Albert" directed by John Schlesinger in London's West End with music by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, script by Jay Presson Allen, choreography by Pat Birch and sets and costumes by Luciana Arrighi, all of whom have distinguished themselves in film. On Broadway he produced "Hail Scrawdyke" ("Little Malcom And His Struggle Against The Eunuchs") directed by Alan Arkin as well as "Leonard Bernstein's Theater Songs" and others. He serves as Senior Executive in Charge of Production for Harry Nilsson and Terry Southern"s Hawkeye Entertainment and with Nillson was Executive Producer Of the Doobie Brothers HBO special "Listen To The Music".
Prior to film production Litvinoff was for 12 years a New York City lawyer who represented many iconic figures including artists Andy Warhol, Jim Dine and Jack Youngerman, writers Terry Southern, Jack Gelber, actors Joel Grey, Beatrice Arthur, Rip Torn, Delphine Seyrig and Orson Bean, directors Shirley Clarke, Gene Saks agents Peter Witt and Toby Cole, theatre producers Ted Mann and his Circle in the Square, Lucille Lortel and her Theater De Lys. Also more than 50 stage productions as well as The Theater Studio of New York and The Cecilwood Playhouse where Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Peter Fonda and Ron Rifkind amongst others began.
His own stage productions include "I and Albert" directed by John Schlesinger in London's West End with music by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, script by Jay Presson Allen, choreography by Pat Birch and sets and costumes by Luciana Arrighi, all of whom have distinguished themselves in film. On Broadway he produced "Hail Scrawdyke" ("Little Malcom And His Struggle Against The Eunuchs") directed by Alan Arkin as well as "Leonard Bernstein's Theater Songs" and others. He serves as Senior Executive in Charge of Production for Harry Nilsson and Terry Southern"s Hawkeye Entertainment and with Nillson was Executive Producer Of the Doobie Brothers HBO special "Listen To The Music".
