Walter Mirisch, Oscar-Winning Producer of In The Heat of the Night and co-founder of The Mirisch Company, Has Died at Age 101

Walter Mirisch, a film producer and executive whose name is synonymous with numerous canonized 20th-century works, has died, as was confirmed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Saturday evening. The independent film producer won the Oscar for best picture at the 40th Academy Awards for the police drama In The Heat of the Night, and received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award 10 years later. At the 55th Academy Awards, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, making him the only person in history to receive all three. He was 101 years old. Mirisch served as president… Read Full Article