Ingwald "Ingo" Preminger (25 February 1911 – 7 June 2006) was a film producer. He was also the literary agent for several writers, including Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., both of whom were blacklisted in the McCarthy era. He was the brother of actor-director-producer

Otto Preminger Otto Ludwig Preminger ( , ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre. He first gai ...

Biography

Preminger was born to a

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12 June 2006 and studied law and worked as a lawyer in Vienna before emigrating to the

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due to the rise of

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. He was nominated for an

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for the 1970 film '' M*A*S*H'', the book of which had been sent to him by Lardner, and also produced ''

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'' in 1972. He was survived by his wife of 70 years, Kate, and three children, including former New York probate judge Eve Preminger.

References

Sources

Vosbogh, Dick (2006) "Obituaries: Ingo Preminger"
''The Independent (London)'', August 11, 2006; accessed October 6, 2007.

External links

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