Ilya Salkind

Ilya Salkind, son of the legendary film producer Alexander Salkind, is the man who, often in partnership with Pierre Spengler, has seen his career develop a strong commercial creative vision, along with the business acumen required to deliver motion picture and televison productions on time and on budget.

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Born in Mexico City in 1947, Ilya's grandfather, Mikhail Salkind, was a pioneer in the field of silent films, producing The Joyless Street (1925) in which Greta Garbo was featured in her first major film role. Afterwards, Mikhail and his son Alexander joined their forces to supervise many successful films of immense artistic achievement, from Orson Welles' The Trial (1962) to Abel Gance's Austerlitz (1959). Soon, beginning in 1969, Ilya became the third generation of this highly-successful movie-making family.

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1925 - Greta Garbo - Orson Welles - 1962 - 1959 - 1969

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As the third component of Team Salkind, along with his father and Pierre Spengler, Ilya Salkind accumulated a stunning filmography, starting with The Three Musketeers (1973) and its 1974 follow-up, The Four Musketeers --- marking the first major incident in which a major motion picture and its immediate sequel were shot back-to-back, simultaneously. After dazzling fans of historical cinema even more with their 1977 adaptation of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, Team Salkind pioneered the era of the superhero film franchise with 1978's blockbuster, --- following it up with Superman II (1980); Superman III (1983) and Supergirl (1984). Team Salkind's last great exploration into the realm of fantasy was 1985's .

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The Three Musketeers - 1973 - 1974 - The Four Musketeers - 1977 - Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper - 1978 - Superman II - 1980 - Superman III - 1983 - Supergirl - 1984 - 1985

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The Salkinds' Superboy (TV series), starring John Haymes Newton in the title role during its first year, Gerard Christopher as the Boy of Steel for the remainder of the show's existence; Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang, and Jim Calvert as T.J. White, lasted four seasons, running for 100 episodes. Following the Team's last film, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), Ilya and his then wife, Jane Chaplin (daughter of Geraldine and grand-niece of Charlie Chaplin) settled in Orlando, Florida, where much of the Superboy series had been filmed. There, Ilya and Jane took a sabbatical and devoted their time to raising their two sons. In 1999, the couple amicably separated.

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Superboy (TV series) - 1992 - Charlie Chaplin

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Returning to Los Angeles in 2003, the producer launched the Ilya Salkind Company in the late summer of that year. Its first project, Alexander the Great from Macedonia, was shot on location in Greece and Egypt, and is scheduled for release in 2006.

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The Ilya Salkind Company

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