Director

Elie Samaha

Production

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 72

TMDB ID: 18691

IMDb ID: nm0759627

Known for: Production

Born: May 10, 1955

Age: 71

Place of birth: Beirut, Lebanon

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1995 - 2024

Years active: 30

Average TMDB rating: 5.57

Wikidata: Q381545

Also known as

Eli Samaha • إيلي سماحة

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Producer (44)Executive Producer (28)

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Biography

Elie Samaha (Arabic: إيلي سماحة) is a film producer in Los Angeles, with production credits beginning with The Immortals in 1995. He has produced over 83 works, primarily films along with some video games. He produced The Boondock Saints (1999), Battlefield Earth (2000), Driven (2001), 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Heist (2001), The Pledge (2001), Spartan (2004), Back on the Strip (2023), among many others. Samaha built his reputation in Hollywood first as the owner of Celebrity Cleaners and then with his nightclub on Sunset Strip, the Roxbury. Parlaying the Hollywood friendships he formed through his clubs, Samaha was given a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Pictures in 1998. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elie Samaha, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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