Yahoo Lifestyle Andras Hamori, Producer of ‘Crash,’ Dies at 71
Hungarian film and television producer Andras Hamori, who produced films like “Crash” and “Sunshine” and shows such as “The Gate,” died Sept. 2. He was 71.
Some of Hamori’s other credits through the late ’90s and early 2000s include films like “The Sweet Hereafter,” “eXistenZ,” “Max,” “Owning Mahowny” and “Formula 51.” From 1991-1993 he served as producer for all 66 episodes of “Tropical Heat” and in 2014 he produced the History Channel miniseries “Houdini” starring Adrien Brody.
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Starting as a film critic and short filmmaker in 1970s Budapest, Hamori was first encouraged to move to North America and chase his film-producing dreams by Hungarian-Canadian theater director John Hirsch. In 1981, armed with a print of one of his shorts, Hamori moved to Toronto, temporarily shacking up in Hirsch’s basement.
Hamori got his break working with fellow Hungarian native Robert Lantos before becoming a partner at Alliance Entertainment, a leading Canadian film and television producer and distributor that operated from 1984 to 2013. Hamori later relocated to Los Angeles where he founded his own production banner H2O Motion Pictures.
“Hamori saw himself as being in the tradition of producers like Hungarian Alexander Korda. He was drawn to unique, visionary stories, often with a literary bent, that could sustain the passion it took to usher them through the years-long development, financing, and production process,” read Hamori’s official obituary. “He was also something of a ham, who liked to give himself the occasional cameo in his own projects.”
Hamori is survived by his three children, Chloe, Ben and Jake.
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