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Robert Fellows or Robert M. Fellows (August 23, 1903, Los Angeles – May 11, 1969, Hollywood) was an American film producer who was once a production partner with John Wayne and later with Mickey Spillane. ==Biography== Fellows entered Hollywood through work as an assistant director in 1928, often working with Tay Garnett,〔http://www.nbrmp.org/features/SOSICEBERG.cfm〕 and was later a production manager for several films. He became an associate producer, first with Warner Brothers. He went to Universal Pictures as an associate producer on the movie ''Pittsburgh'', which starred Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne, three clients of the producer and agent Charles K. Feldman. Fellows was hired by RKO Radio Pictures as a producer, with his first film being ''Bombardier'', a topical but fictional account of the Doolittle Raid, starring Scott. His next film was ''The Fallen Sparrow'', a spy drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Fellows fought pressure to change the background to Occupied France from Spain at a time when the United States government was seeking friendly relations with the Francisco Franco regime.〔http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=502&mainArticleId=293〕 Other films Fellows produced for RKO were ''Tall in the Saddle'' and ''Back to Bataan'' starring John Wayne. As a producer Fellows again worked with director Tay Garnett on ''Wild Harvest'' and ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' for Paramount Pictures. In 1952, Wayne and Fellows teamed up to start their own production company, Wayne-Fellows Productions, making (primarily) films starring Wayne, the first one being ''Big Jim McLain'' (1952). The following year they produced Island in the Sky (1953). Wayne had seen the venture as a way to produce and direct his own film version of the battle of the Alamo.〔Thompson, Frank ''Alamo Movies'' 1994 Republic of Texas Press〕 Eventually, Fellows became embroiled in a complicated divorce from his wife, necessitating the need to sell his half of the company. Wayne bought Fellows out and started his own Batjac Productions.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/michael-wayne-730184.html〕 One of the Wayne-Fellows films was ''Ring of Fear,'' featuring Mickey Spillane. Though the film was credited to frequent Wayne collaborator James Edward Grant, Wayne and Fellows felt the screenplay had problems and asked Spillane to rewrite it, which he did over a weekend. When Spillane, who appeared in the film as himself, refused credit for the screenplay, Wayne presented him with a Jaguar.〔http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/interviews/spillane.shtml〕 Fellows produced a film version of Spillane's ''The Girl Hunters'' in England in 1963 with Spillane portraying his own creation, Mike Hammer. Fellows had acquired the rights to all of Spillane's work and had planned to film ''The Snake'' in 1963, but the project was never produced.〔http://issuu.com/boxoffice/docs/boxoffice_100763-1/31〕 In 1969, just before his death, Fellows and Spillane teamed up to create their own production company, with a plan of filming 21 of Spillane's books, the first being ''The Delta Factor''.〔http://issuu.com/boxoffice/docs/boxoffice_063069/13〕 The film was completed with Tay Garnett directing. 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「Robert Fellows」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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