Sam manners biography

Sam Manners, an Emmy-nominated producer and production manager for television and film, died June 1. He was 91.

He began his long career as a production supervisor on “The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin“; associate producer, production executive and second unit director on “Naked City”; and associate producer, executive in charge of production and second unit director on “Route 66.” A little later he was a unit production manager on “The Wild Wild West.”

Manners’ feature credits as production manager included “Billy the Kid vs.

Dracula,” “Heaven With a Gun,” “Valdez Is Coming,” “Cleopatra Jones” and “The Last Hard Men.” He produced the 1979 feature “Jamaican Gold” and the 1980s film comedies “Mischief” and “Bad Medicine.”

By the late 1970s, Manners began to produce a steady stream of made-for-te