Martin Rackin

Martin Rackin was the son of a silk-mill owner who died when Rackin was 11. To make ends meet, young Rackin took on several jobs, including delivery boy for a hat store. While thus employed, he made the acquaintance of humorist Damon Runyon, who encouraged Rackin to give writing a try. Still in his teens, Rackin became a copy boy for the New York Mirror, working his way up to assistant nightclub columnist. He also toiled away as a publicist and speech writer before heading to Hollywood in 1941. As an MGM contract screenwriter, he wrote extensively for comedian Red Skelton, and later in the 1950s produced and directed Skelton's TV show. His upward mobility in Hollywood interrupted only by four years' service with the USAF, Rackin spent several years at RKO, then freelanced as a producer/writer throughout the 1950s. After maintaining his own production company in partnership with screenwriter John Lee Mahin, Rackin became head of production at Paramount, a post he held from 1960 to 1964. Martin Rackin spent the rest of his screen career as an independent producer; he died of a heart attack during a business trip to London in 1976, four years after the completion of his final production, Two Mules for Sister Sara.

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
64%	Two Mules for Sister Sara	Producer	—	1970
No Score Yet	Violence à Jericho	Producer	—	1967
No Score Yet	Stagecoach	Producer	—	1966
50%	North to Alaska	Screenwriter	—	1960
89%	The Horse Soldiers	Producer Screenwriter	—	1959
No Score Yet	Fort Dobbs	Producer	—	1958
No Score Yet	Darby's Rangers	Producer	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Deep Six	Screenwriter Producer	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Helen Morgan Story	Producer	—	1957
No Score Yet	The Big Land	Screenwriter	—	1957
No Score Yet	Top Secret Affair	Producer	—	1957
No Score Yet	Santiago	Screenwriter Producer	—	1956
No Score Yet	Hell on Frisco Bay	Screenwriter	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Stooge	Screenwriter	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Clown	Screenwriter	—	1953
No Score Yet	Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island	Screenwriter	—	1953
No Score Yet	Loan Shark	Screenwriter	—	1952
No Score Yet	Sailor Beware	Screenwriter	—	1952
No Score Yet	Distant Drums	Screenwriter	—	1951
88%	The Enforcer	Screenwriter	—	1951
No Score Yet	Three Secrets	Screenwriter	—	1950
No Score Yet	A Dangerous Profession	Screenwriter	—	1949
No Score Yet	Fighter Squadron	Screenwriter	—	1948
No Score Yet	Fighting Father Dunne	Screenwriter	—	1948
No Score Yet	Riffraff	Screenwriter	—	1947
100%	Desperate	Screenwriter	—	1947
No Score Yet	Air Raid Wardens	Screenwriter	—	1943

No quotes approved yet.