Ismail Merchant

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AKA: Ismail Noormohamed Abdul Rehman
Nationality: Indian
Birthdate: 12/25/1936
Birthplace: Bombay, India
Death Date: 05/25/2005

biography

An epicurean who fosters a family atmosphere on his sets, often cooking sumptuous meals for cast and crew, Bombay-born producer Ismail Merchant is one half of the prolific "Merchant-Ivory" team, responsible for an oeuvre of handsome and thoughtful independent films reflecting an eye for the exotic and 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 Continued

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2005
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2005
Executive Producer
2004
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2003
Director
2002
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2001
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2000
Executive Producer
1999
From Story
1996
Director
1996
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1996
Executive Producer
1995
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1995
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1993
Director
1993
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1992
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1990
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1989
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1987
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1984
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1982
Executive Producer
1977
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milestones

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Milestone
1946 
First job in film, a walk-on part in a Bombay film, age nine (date approximate)
 
Expressing his future mercantile interests, adopted the surname Merchant while in his teens
1958 
Immigrated to the USA
1960 
Directed and co-produced short film "The Creation of Woman", based on an Indian myth; received Oscar nomination as Best Live-Action Short Subject; its narrator, Saeed Jaffrey (who would appear in four Merchant-Ivory films) had also narrated James Ivory's second short film, "The Sword and the Flute", about Indian art
1961 
Met Ivory at screening for "The Sword and the Flute"; formed Merchant-Ivory Productions (MIP)
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