John C. Champion

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John C. Champion
Born(1923-10-13)October 13, 1923
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
DiedOctober 10, 1994(1994-10-10) (aged 70)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Producer
  • screenwriter

John C. Champion (October 13, 1923 in Denver, Colorado, United States – October 10, 1994 in Tarzana, California, US) was an American producer and screenwriter.

Biography

John C. Champion's first films were two Westerns that he produced and co-wrote with

Airplane!
.

In 1959 Champion produced the Western TV series

Seven Against the Sea. In 1965 he formed a company with Audie Murphy, M.C.R. Productions to produce Westerns in Spain, but only one, The Texican
was made.

He moved to England in 1967 where he wrote and produced low budget war films for

Mirisch Films GB such as Attack on the Iron Coast, The Last Escape, and Submarine X-1. Like Dragonfly Squadron, the low-budget films made by Oakmont Productions featured large amounts of stock footage
and were made with American leads and directors.

Champion wrote one novel The Hawks of Noon (1965). In 1969 Rod Taylor announced that he would star in a film of the book and have a multi-picture deal with Champion, but no films were made.[1]

Champion's final film was Mustang Country in 1976 with Joel McCrea that Champion directed, produced and wrote.

Notes

  1. ^ "Rod Taylor :: Updates". Archived from the original on July 8, 2008. Retrieved October 18, 2008.

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