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Harold Hecht (June 1, 1907 - May 26,1985) was an American film producer. Born in New York City. On his passing (of cancer) at his home in Beverly Hills, California in 1985, Harold Hecht was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Harold Hecht started his involvement with the New York stage at age 16. He appeared in numerous classical stage productioins and later danced with the companies of the Metropolitan Opera and Martha Graham. Then in the 1930s he became a dance director on film productions.

Harold Hecht is probably best remembered today for his association with the actor Burt Lancaster whom he "discovered" on the New York stage and brought to Hollywood, and with whom he formed an independent film production company, breaking from the then-powerful studio system. Their companies were Norma Productions, the Hecht-Lancaster company and, later with the writer-producer James Hill, the Hecht-Hill-Lancaster company.

Partial list of works

"Vera Cruz"
"Marty
"
"The Unforgiven"
"Birdmman of Alcatraz"
"The Way West
"

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