Menahem Golan Biography (1931-)

Born in 1931 (some sources say May 31, 1929) in Tiberias, Israel; immigratedto the United States, 1978; son of Noah and Deborah (maiden name, Goldman) Golan; married Rachel; children: Ruth, Naomi, Yael. Addresses: Contact:Directors Guild of America, 7920 West Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046-3300.

Nationality: Israeli
Gender: Male
Occupation: Producer, director, screenwriter, actor
Birth Details: 1931; Tiberias, Israel

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Director
Directed productions of Tobacco Road, A Streetcar Named Desire,Dangerous Corner, The Chairs, and The Pajama Game, all inIsrael.
Film Producer, Except Where Indicated
Director, El Dorado, 1963
(And director) Shemona b'ekevot ahat (also known as Eight against One and Eight in the Footsteps of One), 1964
Director, Dalia vehamalahim (also known as Dalia and the Sailors), 1964
(With Yoram Globus) Sallah (also known as Sallah shabati),Palisades International, 1964
(With Yoram Globus; and director), Trunk to Cairo (also known as Mivtza kahir, Einer spielt falsch, and Cairo Campaign), American International, 1966
(And director) Fortuna (also known as La fille de la mer morte, The Girl from the Dead Sea, and Seduced in Sodom), 1966
(And director) 999 Aliza mizrahi (also known as 999 Aliza: ThePoliceman), 1967
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Tuvia vesheva benotav (also known as Tevje und seine sieben Toechter, Teyve and His Seven Daughters, and Teyve aus Anatevka), Noah, 1968
Nes b'ayara (also known as A Miracle in Our Town, AMiracle in the Town, and A Miracle in the Village), 1968
Executive producer, Cauldron of Blood, 1968
Executive producer, Sam's Song (also known as Line of Fire and The Swap), 1969
(With Yoram Globus; and director) My Margo (also known as Margosheli and My Love in Jerusalem), Noah, 1969
Director, What's Good for the Goose (also known as Girl Trouble), National Showmanship, 1969
(And director) Ha-pritza hagdola (also known as The Big Escape, Eagles Attack at Dawn, From Hell to Victory, Hanesharimpashtu im schachar, and Hostages in the Gulf), 1970
(And director) Lupo (also known as Lupo!), 1970
Executive producer, Guess What We Learned in School Today&quest;,1970
Director, Katz v'Carasso (also known as The Contract and Katz and Carrasso), 1971
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Malkat hakita (also known as Malkat hakvish, Prom Queen, and The Highway Queen), Cannon,1971
Executive producer, Jump (also known as Fury on Wheels), 1971
Director, Shod hatelephonim hagadol (also known as The Great Telephone Robbery), 1972
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Escape to the Sun (also known asBricha el hashemesh and Habricha el hashemesh), Cinevision, 1972
(With Yoram Globus) I Love You, Rosa (also known as Ani ohev otach Rosa), Noah, 1972
(With Yoram Globus) The House on Chelouch Street (also known as Ha-bayit berechov Chelouche), Noah, 1973
Abu el banat (also known as Daughters, Daughters), 1973
(With Yoram Globus) The Four Deuces, AVCO-Embassy, 1974
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Kazablan, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1974
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Diamonds (also known as Diamond Shaft and Yahlumim), AVCO-Embassy, 1975
The No Mercy Man, 1975
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Lepke, AmeriEuro/Warner Bros., 1975
Mishpahat Tzan'ani (also known as Tzanani Family), 1976
Lupo b'New York (also known as Lupo Goes to New York),1976
Executive producer, The Jaws of Death, 1976
Executive producer, The Passover Plot, 1976
(With Yoram Globus) God's Gun (also known as Diamante lobo, A Bullet from God, and Pistola di dio), Irwin Yablans, 1977
(With Yoram Globus) Kid Vengeance (also known as Take Another Hard Ride and Vengeance Vendetta), Golan-Globus/Irwin Yablans, 1977
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Operation Thunderbolt (also known as Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt and Mivtza yonatan), CinemaShares International, 1978
(With Yoram Globus; and director) The Uranium Conspiracy (also known as Agenten kennen keine Traenen, A chi tocca, tocca ... !, Kesher ha'uranium, and Yellowcake operazione urano), Golan-Globus, 1978
(With Yoram Globus) Savage Weekend, Golan-Globus, 1978
(With Yoram Globus) It's a Funny, Funny World (also known as Yisraelim matzhikim), Golan-Globus, 1978
Cheerleaders' Beach Party, 1978
(With Yoram Globus; and director) The Magician of Lublin (also know as Ha-kosem mi'Lublin and Der Magier), Golan-Globus, 1979
Lemon Popsicle (also known as Eskimo limon), Noah, 1979
Yotzim kavua (also known as Going Steady and Lemon Popsicle II), 1979
Nisuin nusah Tel Aviv (also known as Marriage Tel Aviv Style and Nissuim nosach Tel Aviv), 1979
Imi hageneralit (also known as My Mother the General), 1979
Executive producer, Incoming Freshman, 1979
(With Yoram Globus; and director) The Apple (also known as StarRock), Cannon, 1980
(With Yoram Globus) The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood (also knownas Hollywood Blue), Cannon, 1980
(With Yoram Globus) Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype, Cannon, 1980
(With Yoram Globus) Executive producer, The Godsend, Cannon, 1980
(With Yoram Globus) New Year's Evil, Cannon, 1980
(With Yoram Globus) Schizoid (also known as Murder by Mail), Cannon, 1980. (With Yoram Globus) Seed of Innocence (also known as Teen Mothers), Cannon, 1980
(With Yoram Globus) Body and Soul, Cannon, 1981
Executive producer, Lady Chatterley's Lover (also known as L'amant de lady Chatterley and Lady Chatterley's Liebhaber), 1981
Shifshuf naim (also known as Eis am Stiel 3--Liebeleien, Hot Bubblegum, and Lemon Popsicle III), 1981
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Enter the Ninja (also known as Ninja I), Cannon, 1982
(With Yoram Globus) Death Wish II, Columbia/EMI/Warner Bros., 1982
(With Yoram Globus) Hospital Massacre (also known as Ward 13, X-Ray, and Be My Valentine, Or Else ...), Cannon, 1982
(With Yoram Globus) The Last American Virgin, Cannon, 1982
(With Yoram Globus) That Championship Season, Cannon, 1982
Sword of the Valiant (also known as Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Gawain and the Green Knight), 1982
Sapihes (also known as Eis am Stiel 4--Hasenjagd, LemonPopsicle IV, and Private Popsicle), 1982
Ahava ilemeth (also known as Mute Love and Secret of Yolanda), 1982
Executive producer, The Seven Magnificent Gladiators, 1982
(With Yoram Globus) Treasure of the Four Crowns (also known as Il mistero della quattro corona and El tesoro de las cuatro coronas), Cannon, 1983
(With Yoram Globus) Executive producer, 10 to Midnight, Cannon, 1983
(With Yoram Globus) Nana (also known as Nana, the True Key of Pleasure and Nana: La vera chiave del piacere), Cannon, 1983
(With Yoram Globus) I'm Almost Not Crazy ... John Cassavetes: TheMan and His Work, Cannon, 1983
(With Yoram Globus) The House of Long Shadows (also known as House of the Long Shadows), Cannon, 1983
(With Yoram Globus) Revenge of the Ninja (also known as Ninja II), Cannon/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1983
(With Yoram Globus) Hercules, Cannon/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1983
(With Yoram Globus) The Wicked Lady, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1983
Sababa (also known as Lemon Popsicle and Private Manoeuvres), 1983
(With Yoram Globus) Sahara, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) The Ambassador (also known as The Peacemaker), Cannon, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) Executive producer, Bolero (also known as Bolero: An Adventure in Ecstasy), Cannon, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) Exterminator 2, Cannon, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) The Naked Face, Cannon, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) Missing in Action, Cannon, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) Hot Resort, Cannon, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) Love Streams, Cannon, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) Executive producer, Breakin' (also known as Breakdance), Cannon/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley (also known as Grace Quigley), Cannon/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) Making the Grade (also known as Preppies), Cannon/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) Ninja III--The Domination, Cannon/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (also knownas Breakdance 2--Electric Boogaloo and Electric Boogaloo Breakin' 2), Cannon/Tri-Star, 1984
(With Yoram Globus) Lifeforce, Tri-Star, 1984
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Over the Brooklyn Bridge (also known as Across the Brooklyn Bridge and My Darling Shiksa), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1984
Roman za'ir (also known as Baby Love, Eis am Stiel 5-Die grosse Liebe, Hasenjagd, Lemon Popsicle V, and Sababa-Wer hat mir die Butter von Brot geklaut), 1984
Executive producer, Ordeal by Innocence, 1984
Edut me'ones (also known as Forced Testimony and Forced Witness), 1984
(With Yoram Globus; and director) The Delta Force, Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) The Assisi Underground, Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Hot Chili (also known as Hot Summer), Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Interno Berlinese (also known as The BerlinAffair), Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Missing in Action 2--The Beginning, Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Rappin', Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Executive producer, Thunder Alley, Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) American Ninja (also known as American Warrior), Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Executive producer, Mata Hari, Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Death Wish 3, Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) King Solomon's Mines, Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Runaway Train, Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Fool for Love, Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Invasion U.S.A., Cannon, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Executive producer, Maria's Lovers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1985
Deja Vu, 1985
Executive producer, Nine Deaths of the Ninja, 1985

Ha-me'ahev (also known as The Lover and Hame'ahev), 1985
Harium ogen (also known as Eis am Stiel 6-Ferienliebe, Ferienliebe, Lemon Popsicle VI, Hareemu ohgen, and Up Your Anchor), 1985
Le soulier de satin, 1985
Executive producer, War and Love, 1985
(With Yoram Globus) Executive producer, Murphy's Law, Cannon,1986
(With Yoram Globus) Executive producer, The Naked Cage, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) P.O.W.: The Escape, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (also knownas TCM 2 and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) Invaders from Mars, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) 52 Pick-Up, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) Link, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) Firewalker, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) Dumb Dicks (also known as Detective SchoolDropouts and Private Detectives), Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) The Nutcracker: The Motion Picture, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) Avenging Force, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) Hashigaon hagadol (also known as Funny Farm), Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) Journey to the Center of the Earth, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) Executive producer, Salome, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) Otello, Cannon, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) Cobra, Warner Bros., 1986
Executive producer, Dangerously Close, Cannon, 1986
Un complicato intrigo di donne, vicoli e delitti \[also known as Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime), Camorra: The Naples Connection, and A Complex Plot About Women, Alleys and Crimes\], 1986
Malkat hakitah (also known as Prom Queen), 1986
Executive producer, K'fafoth, 1986
Executive producer, Lightning-The White Stallion, 1986
(With Yoram Globus) America 3000, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) American Ninja 2: The Confrontation, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Assassination, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Beauty and the Beast, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Down Twisted, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Duet for One, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) The Emperor's New Clothes, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) The Hanoi Hilton, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) The Barbarians (also known as I Barbariand The Barbarians and Co.), Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Dutch Treat, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Masters of the Universe, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Number One with a Bullet, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Rumpelstiltskin, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Street Smart, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Under Cover, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) The Assault, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Hansel and Gretel (also known as Cannon Movie Tales: Hansel and Gretel), Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Going Bananas (also known as My African Adventure), Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Snow White (also known as Cannon Movie Tales: Snow White), Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Sleeping Beauty, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Tough Guys Don't Dance, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Shy People, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Dancers (also known as Giselle), Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Red Riding Hood (also known as Cannon MovieTales: Red Riding Hood), Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) King Lear, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Braddock: Missing in Action III, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Too Much, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Die Papierene Brucke, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Field of Honor, Cannon, 1987
Executive producer, Barfly, Cannon, 1987
Executive producer, Surrender, Cannon, 1987
Executive producer, Mascara (also known as Make-up for Murder), Cannon, 1987
Executive producer, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, Cannon, 1987
Executive producer, Gor, Cannon, 1987
Executive producer, Business as Usual, Cannon, 1987
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Over the Top, Warner Bros., 1987
(With Yoram Globus) Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Warner Bros., 1987
Alien from L.A. (also known as Odeon), 1987
Executive producer, The Kitchen Toto, Cannon, 1988
Executive producer, Doin' Time on Planet Earth (also known asComin' Down to Earth), Cannon, 1988
Executive producer, Bloodsport (also known as Kick Boxer),Cannon, 1988
Executive producer, Appointment with Death, Cannon, 1988
Executive producer, Powaqqatsi, Cannon, 1988
(With Yoram Globus) Salsa, Cannon, 1988
(With Yoram Globus) Freedom Fighters (also known as Mercenary Fighters), Cannon, 1988
Puss in Boots, 1988
(With Yoram Globus; and director) Hanna's War, Cannon, 1988
Manifesto (also known as A Night of Love), 1988
Executive producer, A Cry in the Dark (also known as Evil Angels), 1988
Executive producer, Messenger of Death, 1988
Hero and the Terror, 1988
Executive producer, Haunted Summer, 1988
The Phantom of the Opera (also known as Gaston Leroux's ThePhantom of the Opera), 1989
Sinbad of the Seven Seas (also known as Sinbad), 1989
(Executive producer and director) Mack the Knife (also known as The Threepenny Opera), 1989
Executive producer, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (also known as Kinjite), 1989
Cyborg, 1989
Executive producer, Bad Jim, 1989
The Rose Garden, 1989
Executive producer, Young Love: Lemon Popsicle VII, 1989
Executive producer, The Forbidden Dance (also known as Lambada,the Forbidden Dance), 1990
O quinto macaco (also known as The Fifth Monkey), 1990
Executive producer, Night of the Living Dead, 1990
Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold (also known as Delta Force II: The Colombian Connection), 1990
Executive producer, Bullseye!, 1990
Executive producer, Street Hunter, 1990
Executive producer, The Black Cat, 1991
Executive producer, The Masque of the Red Death, 1991
Killing Streets, 1991
The Finest Hour (also known as Desert Shield), 1991
Dance Macabre, 1991
Director, Zebracka opera (also known as The Beggar's Opera), 1991
(And director) Hit the Dutchman, 1992
Executive producer, Prison Planet, 1992
Mad Dog Coll (also known as Killer Instinct), 1992
Executive producer, Invaders, 1992
Executive producer, Desert Kickboxer (also known as Desert Hawk), 1992
Captain America, 1992
Executive producer, Three Days to a Kill, 1992
(And director) Crime and Punishment, Twenty-First Century Film Corp., 1993
Executive producer, Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde, 1993
Executive producer, Death Wish V: The Face of Death, 1993
Executive producer, Midnight Witness, 1993
(And director) Silent Victim, 1993
Dead Center (also known as Crazy Joe), 1994
Executive producer, Deathfight, 1994
Executive producer, American Cyborg: Steel Warrior, 1994
(And director) Deadly Heroes, 1994
Director, The Versace Murder, VMP, 1998
Director, Breaking the Silence, Martien Holdings, 1998
Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol (also known as D.F. 1: The Lost Patrol), Frontline Entertainment Group, 1999
Executive producer, Cattle Call, 1999
Executive producer, Speedway Junkie, 1999
Executive producer, After Sex, Cutting Edge Entertainment, 2000
Gunga Din, 2000
Film Appearances
El Dorado, 1963
I'm Almost Not Crazy ... John Cassavetes: The Man and His Work, Cannon, 1983
Hymie Weinstock, Hit the Dutchman, 1992
Dead Center (also known as Crazy Joe), 1994
Nelo, Zihron devarim (also known as Devarim, L'inventario, and Things), Cara M, 1996
Cameo, Cannes Man (also known as Canne$ Man), Rocket Pictures Home Video, 1996
Television Director, Except Where Indicated
Movies
Die Tunnelgangster von Berlin, 1995
Armstrong, HBO, 1998
Television Executive Producer
Series
D.C. Follies, PBS, 1988-89
WRITINGS
Screenplays
El Dorado, 1963
Fortuna (also known as La fille de la mer morte, The Girl from the Dead Sea, and Seduced in Sodom), 1966
999 Aliza mizrahi (also known as 999 Aliza: The Policeman),1967
Tuvia vesheva benotav (also known as Tevje und seine sieben Toechter, Teyve and His Seven Daughters, and Tevye aus Anatevka), 1968
(Story) Commandos (also known as Himmelfahrtskommando El Alamein, Mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern, and Sullivan's Maraduers), 1968
(Story) What's Good for the Goose (also known as Girl Trouble), National Showmanship, 1969
My Margo (also known as Margo sheli and My Love in Jerusalem), Noah, 1969
Ha-pritza hagdola (also known as The Big Escape, EaglesAttack at Dawn, From Hell to Victory, Hanesharim pashtu im schachar, and Hostages in the Gulf), 1970
Lupo (also known as Lupo!), 1970
Malkat hakita (also known as Malkat hakvish, Prom Queen, and The Highway Queen), Cannon, 1971
Katz v'Carasso (also known as The Contract and Katzand Carrasso), 1971
Shod hatelephonim hagadol (also known as The Great Telephone Robbery), 1972
Escape to the Sun (also known as Bricha el hashemesh and Habricha el hashemesh), Cinevision, 1972
Kazablan, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1974
(Story only) Diamonds (also known as Diamond Shaft and Yahlumim), AVCO-Embassy, 1975
Operation Thunderbolt (also known as Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt and Mivtza yonatan), Cinema Shares International, 1978
(With Irving S. White) The Magician of Lublin (also known as Ha-kosem mi'Lublin and Der Magier), Golan-Globus, 1979
The Apple (also known as Star Rock), Cannon, 1980
Enter the Ninja, Cannon, 1982
(Story only) Sahara, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1984
The Delta Force, Cannon, 1985
Hashigaon hagadol (also known as Funny Farm), Cannon, 1986
Business as Usual, Cannon, 1987
Under Cover, Cannon, 1987
Going Bananas (also known as My African Adventure), Cannon,1987
Hanna's War, Cannon, 1988
Mack the Knife (also known as The Threepenny Opera), 1989
The Versace Murder, VMP, 1998
Television Movies
Armstrong, HBO, 1998

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Forbes, March 26, 1984, p. 182; June 30, 1986, p. 10; July 25, 1988, p. 43; June 25, 1990, p. 12; July 6, 1992, p. 20; April 25, 1994, p. 12.

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