Milton Subotsky
Milton Subotsky (September 27, 1921 – June 27, 1991) was an American film and television writer and producer. In 1964, he founded Amicus Productions with Max J. Rosenberg. Amicus means "friendship" in Latin. Together, they produced a number of low-budget science fiction and horror films in the United Kingdom. Early life and career. Subotsky was born in New York City, to a family of Jewish immigrants. During World War II, he served in the Signal Corps, in which he wrote and edited technical training films. After the war, he began a career as a writer and producer during  the 1950s "Golden Age" of television. In 1954, he wrote and produced the TV series "Junior Science". He graduated to film producing "Rock, Rock, Rock" (1956), for which he also composed nine songs. Subotsky moved to England; he produced his first horror film, "The City of the Dead" (aka, "Horror Hotel", 1960), at Shepperton Studios. He was a regular juror on "Juke Box Jury" on BBC Television in the early 1960s. Amicus Productions. In 1964, with fellow expatriate producer Max J. Rosenberg, Subotsky formed the company Amicus Productions. Based at Shepperton Studios, they produced such films as "Dr. Terror's  House of Horrors" (1964), "Dr. Who and the Daleks" (1965), "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." (1966), "Torture Garden" (1967), "Scream and Scream Again" (1970), "The House That Dripped Blood" (1970), "Tales from The Crypt" (1972), "Asylum" (1972), "From Beyond the Grave" (1973) and "The Land That Time Forgot" (1975). Sword & Sorcery Productions. Amicus was disestablished in 1975, but Subotsky continued producing. Around this time he formed "Sword & Sorcery Productions, Ltd." with Frank Duggan. At some point Andrew Donally joined the company. Numerous well-publicised projects did not go into production. These include adaptations of Lin Carter's "Thongor" stories, a  live-action version of Stan Lee's "The Incredible Hulk", film adaptations of stories that appeared in James Warren's comic magazines "Creepy" and "Eerie", and a co-production with former James Bond film producer Harry Saltzman on Saltzman's troubled "shrunken man" epic "The Micronauts". Unable to purchase film rights to Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Barbarian" stories, Subotsky instead bought the rights to Carter's "Thongor" stories in 1976. Subotsky himself adapted Carter's 1965 novel "The Wizard of Lemuria". United Artists agreed to bankroll the project – now called "Thongor in the Valley of Demons" – in 1978 , but subsequently withdrew for unspecified reasons. Sword & Sorcery's first film project to get off the ground was "Dominique". In 1980, they co-produced the TV series "The Martian Chronicles", adapted from the short story collection by Ray Bradbury. During the making of this miniseries, Subotsky and Donally parted ways. Later career and death. Subotsky also co-produced several adaptations of Stephen King novels, including "Cat's Eye" (1985), "Maximum Overdrive" (1986), "Sometimes They Come Back" (a 1991 TV film) and "The Lawnmower Man" (1992). The Director's Cut of the latter was dedicated to his memory. Subotsky died of  heart disease in 1991, at the age of 69. His widow, Dr Fiona Subotsky, is a prominent London psychiatrist, and an historian of psychiatry.