Biography

Ingo Preminger was born on February 25, 1911 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]. He was a producer, known for M*A*S*H (1970), The Salzburg Connection (1972) and M*A*S*H (1972). He was married to Kate. He died on June 7, 2006 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.

He was an attorney in Vienna, but fled the Nazis in 1938 and took his family to New York, where he bought a paint-supply business. They moved to Los Angeles in 1947, and he began a new career in show business.

Brother of director Otto Preminger, uncle of Erik Lee Preminger.

As a literary agent, Preminger represented, among others, Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., who were both blacklisted during the Red Scare days of the 1950s. He worked effectively with blacklisted writers by using fronts and other writers who agreed to claim the work as their own, to help get past the studio restrictions.

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Producers Branch)

Father of son Jim Preminger, daughters Eve Preminger and Katherine Kauff.

[on his brother Otto Preminger]: He was, all his life, the same guy. He was brusque, but also very friendly, very loyal. He loved people or hated people. He was sometimes given to furious outbreaks.