Charles Samuel Swartz (April 22, 1939 – February 10, 2007) was an American filmmaker, researcher, and academic. He was raised in Dallas, earned a degree from

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and did graduate work at the

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. At USC he met and married another film student,

Stephanie Rothman Stephanie Rothman (born November 9, 1936, in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter, known for her low-budget independent exploitation films made in the 1960s and 1970s, especially ''The Student Nurses'' (1 ...

. He and Rothman worked together on a number of films for

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and were involved in the establishment of Dimension Pictures. Swartz later became an important figure in the development of digital cinema, writing the textbook ''Understanding Digital Cinema: A Professional Handbook'' (2004) and working at the research centre of the

Entertainment Technology Centre from 2003–2007. He died of pneumonia following a battle with brain cancer.Valerie Nelson, 'Charles Swartz, 67; took film to the digital age', ''LA Times'', February 14, 2007
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Filmography

* ''

It's a Bikini World ''It's a Bikini World'' is a 1967 American musical comedy film starring Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley and Bobby Pickett. The film features cameos by the music groups the Gentrys, the Animals, Pat & Lolly Vegas, the Castaways and R&B girl g ...

'' (1967) – producer, co-writer * '' Gas-s-s-s'' (1970) – production assistant * '' The Student Nurses'' (1970) – producer, writer * '' The Velvet Vampire'' (1971) – producer, writer * ''

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'' (1973) – producer * ''

The Working Girls ''The Working Girls'' is a 1974 sexploitation film written and directed by Stephanie Rothman and starring Sarah Kennedy, Laurie Rose and Cassandra Peterson. Plot Three women sharing an apartment in Los Angeles are all endangered by the men in ...

'' (1974) – producer

Bibliography

* Charles S. Swartz (editor), ''Understanding digital cinema. A professional handbook'', Elseiver / Focal Press, Burlington, Oxford, 2005, xvi + 327 p.

References

External links

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'Entertainment Industry Leader Charles S. Swartz Passes Away: Veteran Producer, Innovator, and Communicator Shaped Landmark Entertainment Technology Center at USC' ''USC News'' February 13, 2007
{{DEFAULTSORT:Swartz, Charles S. American film producers 1939 births 2007 deaths