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A veteran Hollywood producer, Paul Maslansky has ha an eclectic career. He entered showbiz as a trumpet player with a number of bands in his native Manhattan. After a sojourn in radio advertising sales, Maslansky moved to Europe where her served as an assistant director and later production manager on European films, including Carol Reed's "The Running Man" (1963). He subsequently produced the first Italo-Soviet co-production, Mikhail Kalatozov's "The Red Tent" (1971), and the first joint US-USSR film venture, George Cukor's "The Blue Bird" (1976)....

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Filmography

Coming Through Slaughter - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Police Academy (Remake) - ( Executive Producer / / Announced / )
Fluke - ( Producer / 1995 / Released / )
Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow - ( Producer / 1994 / Released / )
Cop and A Half - ( Producer / 1993 / Released / )
Honeymoon Academy - ( Executive Producer / 1990 / Released / )
Ski Patrol - ( Executive Producer / 1990 / Released / Tohokushinsha Film Corporation )
The Russia House - ( Producer / 1990 / Released / Shochiku-Fuji Company Ltd/Kuzui Enterprises )
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege - ( Producer / 1989 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach - ( Producer / 1988 / Released / )
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol - ( Producer / 1987 / Released / )
Police Academy 3: Back in Training - ( Producer / 1986 / Released / )
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment - ( Producer / 1985 / Released / )
Return to Oz - ( Producer / 1985 / Released / )
Police Academy - ( Producer / 1984 / Released / Columbia-EMI-Warner )
The Salamander - ( Producer / 1983 / Released / Grade, Lew )
Love Child - ( Producer / 1982 / Released / Ladd Company )
Hot Stuff - ( Executive Producer / 1979 / Released / )
Scavenger Hunt - ( Co-Producer / 1979 / Released / )
The Silent Flute - ( Producer / 1979 / Released / )
The Villain - ( Executive Producer / 1979 / Released / )
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? - ( Co-Producer / 1979 / Released / )
Damnation Alley - ( Producer / 1977 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
The Blue Bird - ( Producer / 1976 / Released / )
Hard Times - ( Executive Producer / 1975 / Released / )
Race With the Devil - ( Executive Producer / 1975 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Sugar Hill - ( Director / 1974 / Released / AIP )
Eyewitness - ( Producer / 1970 / Released / )
La Tenda rossa - ( Producer / 1970 / Released / )
Jason and the Argonauts - ( Production Manager / 1963 / Released / )
The Running Man - ( Production Manager / 1963 / Released / )
The Counterfeit Traitor - ( Assistant Director / 1962 / Released / )

TV Credits
My Dissident Mom ( 1987 / Released ): Executive Producer
King ( 1978 / Released ): Producer
The Gun and the Pulpit ( 1974 / Released ): Producer
Police Academy: The Series ( Released ): Executive Producer

Full Biography (Back to top)


A veteran Hollywood producer, Paul Maslansky has ha an eclectic career. He entered showbiz as a trumpet player with a number of bands in his native Manhattan. After a sojourn in radio advertising sales, Maslansky moved to Europe where her served as an assistant director and later production manager on European films, including Carol Reed's "The Running Man" (1963). He subsequently produced the first Italo-Soviet co-production, Mikhail Kalatozov's "The Red Tent" (1971), and the first joint US-USSR film venture, George Cukor's "The Blue Bird" (1976). But American audiences are probably most aware of his low-brow but extremely successful "Police Academy" franchise which has spawned six sequels and two TV versions. Returning to Moscow, Maslansky co-produced a rare prestige picture, Fred Schepisi's adaptation of John le Carre's "The Russia House" (1990), which teamed Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer. Maslansky also has made occasional forays into American TV. In addition to an animated and live-action version of "Police Academy: The Series" (syndicated, 1989 and 1997 respectively), he oversaw the Emmy-nominated biographical miniseries "King" (NBC, 1978), featuring Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson.

Profession(s):
producer, director, screenwriter, assistant director, production manager, trumpeter
Sometimes Credited As:
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Family
son:Sam Maslansky (adopted 17-son old Romanian orphan in October 1990)
wife:Sally Maslansky (married in 1986)

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Education
Cinematheque Francaise Paris, France
Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia 1954
Milestones (Back to top)

1997 Revived "Police Academy: The Series" as a syndicated live action show
1990 Abandoned low-brow comedies to co-produce Fred Schepisi's "The Russia House"
1989 Served as creative supervisor and executive producer of the syndicated an animated "Police Academy: The Series"
1984 Had hit with "Police Academy" which spawned seven sequels and two television adaptations
1978 Produced the Emmy-nominated TV miniseries, "King" (NBC)
1976 Was one of the producers of the ill-fated US-USSR co-production "The Blue Bird", directed by George Cukor
1974 Initial TV production, the ABC movie "The Gun and the Pulpit"
1967 Covered war in Israel for CBS film unit
1964 First film as producer (also writer), "Il castello dei morti vivi/Castle of the Living Dead"
1962 Initial film credit, assistant director on "The Counterfeit Traitor", directed by George Seaton
1959 Sold AM radio advertising space in Kansas City and worked for a band
1959 Produced first project, a live jazz concert starring Jimmy Witherspoon (date approximate)
1959 - 1972 Worked in Europe as production manager
Played trumpet with bands in New York
Was in charge of physical production in Europe for United Artists



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