Arthur P. Jacobs

Arthur P. Jacobs

Infobox Person
name = Arthur Jacobs


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birth_date = birth date|1922|3|7|mf=y
birth_place = Los Angeles, California
death_date = death date and age|1973|6|27|1922|3|7|mf=y
death_place = Los Angeles, California
occupation = Film producer
spouse =

Arthur Jacobs (March 7, 1922–June 27, 1973) was a twentieth century film producer responsible for numerous classic films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the "Planet of the Apes" series, "Doctor Dolittle", "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", "Play It Again, Sam" and "Tom Sawyer". [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414336/ IMDB listing] ] "Tom Sawyer", a musical which featured both a script and song score by the Sherman Brothers was to be the first in a five picture deal with the prolific brothers.Fact|date=February 2007 Each film was to be a musical with an Americana theme. However, tragedy struck during the filming of Huckleberry Finn and Jacobs died suddenly of a heart attack. Between the loss of Jacobs and a protracted recovery from knee surgery of Robert B. Sherman, "Huckleberry Finn" suffered creatively.

As producer

* "Huckleberry Finn", 1974...aka "Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: A Musical Adaptation" (USA: promotional title)
* "Battle for the Planet of the Apes", 1973... aka Colonization of the Planet of the Apes

* "Tom Sawyer", 1973... aka "A Musical Adaptation of Mark Twain's 'Tom Sawyer"' (USA: promotional title)
* "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes", 1972
* "Play It Again, Sam", 1972... aka Aspirins for Three
* "Escape from the Planet of the Apes", 1971
* "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", 1970

* "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", 1969

* "Planet of the Apes", 1968... aka "Monkey Planet"
* "Doctor Dolittle", 1967
* "What a Way to Go!", 1964

As executive producer

* "Topper Returns" 1973 (TV) (executive producer)
* "The Chairman, 1969... aka "The Most Dangerous Man in the World" (UK)

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