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American film producer (1930–2010)

Elliott Kastner (January 7, 1930 – June 30, 2010)^[1] was an American film producer, whose best known credits include Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Long Goodbye (1973), The Missouri Breaks (1976), and Angel Heart (1987).

Early life and career

Kastner was born to a Jewish family^[2] in New York City. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother in Harlem.^[3]

He attended the University of Miami and Columbia University.

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During the 1950s, he was stationed with United States European Command in Frankfurt and Paris.

Agent

Kastner worked in the mail room at the William Morris Agency in New York, becoming a literary agent. He moved to Los Angeles and became a talent agent at the Music Corporation of America (MCA).

When that agency merged with Decca Records, which owned Universal Pictures, Lew Wasserman, the president of MCA, made Kastner vice president of production