![]() Kastner's first film as producer was Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965) based on a script by William Inge and starring Ann-Margret and Michael Parks. He worked there for two years before becoming an independent producer. When that agency merged with Decca Records, which owned Universal Pictures, Lew Wasserman, the president of MCA, made Kastner vice president of production at Universal. He moved to Los Angeles and became a talent agent at the Music Corporation of America (MCA). Kastner worked in the mail room at the William Morris Agency in New York, becoming a literary agent. During the 1950s, he was stationed with United States European Command in Frankfurt and Paris. He attended the University of Miami and Columbia University. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother in Harlem. ![]() Kastner was born to a Jewish family in New York City. Elliott Kastner (Janu– June 30, 2010) 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). ![]()
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