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- Birth nameAndrew Craddock Lyles Jr.
- A.C. Lyles was born on May 17, 1918 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Hunt for Red October (1990), Here's Boomer (1980) and Rogue's Gallery (1968). He was married to Martha Troetscher Schaefer and Martha Vickers. He died on September 27, 2013 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpousesMartha Troetscher Schaefer(May 3, 1955 - September 27, 2013) (his death)Martha Vickers(March 15, 1948 - May 27, 1949) (divorced)
- Employee of Paramount Pictures since 1928.
- In 1983, Lyles' old friend Ronald Reagan appointed Lyles to the President's Advisory Council on Private Sector Initiatives, and in January 1986, he was sworn onto the board. He regularly attended White House meetings with Reagan and his staff and attended conferences overseas. During the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, he also functioned as Hollywood liaison, getting celebrities to entertain at the White House and other presidential functions.
- Former publicist, who became a producer of Paramount B-westerns starring veteran Hollywood actors.
- In 1984, Lyles received the George Washington Award of the Freedoms Foundation, presented to him in the Oval Office by President Ronald Reagan.
- During the 1960s, he produced over a dozen low-budget Westerns starring former A-list actors including Dana Andrews.
- [on Lyle Bettger] . . . one of the nicest guys we had at Paramount. So professional. He was, oddly enough, cast as a heavy while in real life he was just a dear, dear man. Extremely friendly with everyone. Very, very popular on the lot with cast members. People all over the world the minute they saw him on screen knew he was gonna be a mean man. His role in Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) was tailor-made for him.
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