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      Ismail Merchant

      Ismail Merchant

      Highest Rated: 100% A Room With a View (1986)

      Lowest Rated: Not Available

      Birthday: Dec 25, 1936

      Birthplace: Bombay, Maharashtra, India

      Bombay-born producer Ismail Merchant was one half of the prolific Merchant/Ivory team, responsible for an oeuvre of handsome and thoughtful independent films reflecting an eye for the beautiful and an ear for the carefully wrought line of dialogue. Along with Oregon-raised director James Ivory and the German-raised screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (a Polish Jew educated in Britain and married to an Indian), he is actually part of a triumvirate, perhaps best described by the Hindi word "sangam," meaning "meeting of three rivers," in this case Asia, Europe and North America. Merchant was introduced to Ivory in 1961 when the producer was 24 and the director was 32. The pair shared a common collaborator, Saeed Jaffrey, who had narrated both Merchant's Oscar-nominated 1960 short "The Creation of Woman" and Ivory's short film "The Sword and the Flute" (1961). Meeting at a screening for the latter, the two eventually formed Merchant-Ivory Productions (MIP) to make English-language features in India for the international market. Their first film, "The Householder" (1963) was adapted by Jhabvala from her novel.

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      IN CUSTODY, director Ismail Merchant, on-set, 1993, © Sony Pictures Classics COTTON MARY, James Wilby (left), director Ismail Merchant (center) on-set, 1999, © Artistic License A SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES, producer Ismail Merchand, director James Ivory, on set, 1998. (c) October Films. LE DIVORCE, Producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory on the set, 2003, (c) Fox Searchlight MYSTIC MASSEUR, director Ismail Merchant, 2001, photo: Mikki Ansin / © ThinkFilm /
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      50% 49% The White Countess Producer $1.7M 2005
      63% 74% Heights Producer $1.2M 2005
      36% 26% Le Divorce Producer $9.1M 2003
      0% 65% Merci Docteur Rey Executive Producer $19.6K 2002
      51% 25% The Mystic Masseur Director $398.6K 2001
      54% 39% The Golden Bowl Producer $3.0M 2000
      36% 43% Cotton Mary Director,
      Producer       		$299.4K 1999
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Side Streets Executive Producer - 1998
      80% 72% A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Producer $1.8M 1998
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Tree Executive Producer - 1997
      35% 60% Surviving Picasso Producer $2.0M 1996
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Proprietor Director $113.6K 1996
      31% 35% Jefferson in Paris Producer $2.5M 1995
      67% 62% In Custody Director - 1993
      96% 90% The Remains of the Day Producer $23.0M 1993
      94% 81% Howards End Producer $157.9K 1992
      82% 44% Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Producer $5.0M 1990
      30% 70% Slaves of New York Producer $294.4K 1989
      82% 87% Maurice Producer $45.9K 1987
      100% 85% A Room With a View Producer $12.0M 1986
      79% 59% Heat and Dust Producer $19.9K 1983
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Courtesans of Bombay Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1983
      44% 33% Quartet Producer $12.0K 1981
      No Score Yet 25% Roseland Producer - 1977
      40% 15% The Wild Party Producer - 1975
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Guru Producer - 1969
      89% 66% Shakespeare Wallah Producer $3.6K 1965
      No Score Yet 63% The Householder Producer - 1963