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Andrew Craddock "A. C." Lyles, Jr. (May 17, 1918 – September 27, 2013) was an American film producer for Paramount Pictures, who is best known for producing a variety of westerns in the 1950s and 1960s. ==Career== Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Lyles began working for Paramount studios after high school. He began as an office boy, worked in the publicity department of Pine-Thomas Productions the second feature unit of Paramount,〔p.114 Joyner, C. Courtney ''A.C. Lyles Interview'' in ''The Westerners: Interviews With Actors, Directors, Writers and Producers'' McFarland, October 14, 2009〕 and eventually became assistant to the producer on ''The Mountain'', released in 1954. His first role as full producer was on ''Short Cut to Hell'', released in 1957 that was a remake of ''This Gun for Hire'' and directed by James Cagney. He also produced nine episodes of the television show ''Rawhide''. In an interview with Alex Simon and Donald Keith, Lyles recalled he was approached by Paramount to do a Western when they realized they had none on their schedule of releases. When ''Law of the Lawless'' did well at the box office, Paramount asked him how many more he could do a year. Lyles replied "five" and he was given the go ahead to produce more second features for the studio.〔Simon, Alex and Keefe, Terry ''A C Lyles Interview'' ''The Hollywood Interview''〕 Lyles filled his cast with many older, experienced actors who were his friends. Lyles continued to produce a variety of low budget traditional westerns for Paramount in the 1960s, as well as other movies in other genres like the Korean War film ''The Young and the Brave'', the detective drama ''Rogues Gallery'' in 1968, and the science-fiction film ''Night of the Lepus'', for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, that featured the American Southwest menaced by giant mutant rabbits. On March 3, 1988, Lyles was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6840 Hollywood Blvd. Lyles' most recent work was as consulting producer on the HBO television series ''Deadwood'', created by David Milch. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A. C. Lyles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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