Marty Katz

Three years later, he was promoted to the post of executive vice president and continued to oversee the physical production side of the studio's rapidly expanding motion picture and television slate.

Upon his return from Vietnam in 1969, where he served as a US Army 1st lieutenant Combat Pictorial Unit director, Katz began his industry career working for Roger Corman's New World Pictures as a production manager and associate producer on various low-budget films.

During his five-year association with that organization, he supervised production for more than 50 television movies (including Eleanor and Franklin and Love Among the Ruins) which garnered a total of 25 Emmy Awards.

From 1976 to 1978, he was executive vice president of Quinn Martin Productions, supervising Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, and other on-air series and television films.

In 2004, he produced The Great Raid, an epic World War II, true-life action drama about the liberation of American Survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Japanese Cabanatuan POW Camp in the Philippines in 1945.