Hawk Koch

Hawk Koch

Actor · Director · Producer

Los Angeles, California, USA
December 14, 1945

Biography

Howard Winchel Koch Jr. (born December 14, 1945), also known as Hawk Koch, is an American film producer. Throughout his career, he was involved in the production of over 50 major films, including Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Way We Were (1973), Chinatown (1974), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Wayne's World (1992) and its 1993 sequel, Primal Fear (1996), Fracture (2007), and Source Code (2011). Koch is currently a director for AMC Entertainment, the Motion Picture and Television Fund, and the National Film Preservation Foundation, and he previously served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America. Koch is a former road manager for The Supremes and The Dave Clark Five musical groups. In 2019, he published his memoir, Magic Time: My Life in Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hawk Koch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Representative Works

Source Code
Source Code
7.3
/ English
Primal Fear
Primal Fear
7.7
/ English
Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary's Baby
7.8
/ English
Chinatown
Chinatown
7.9
/ English
Sliver
Sliver
5.6
/ English
Fracture
Fracture
7.3
/ English
Collateral Damage
Collateral Damage
5.8
/ English
Frequency
Frequency
7.3
/ English
Wayne's World
Wayne's World
6.7
/ English
Hostage
Hostage
6.4
/ English
Wayne's World 2
Wayne's World 2
6.1
/ English
Virtuosity
Virtuosity
5.5
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Source Code
2011Nominee

Best Picture

Source Code

Primal Fear
1996Winner

Best Picture

Primal Fear

Rosemary's Baby
1968Winner

Best Performance

Rosemary's Baby

Career Highlights

Chinatown
1974Highlight

Best Director

Chinatown

Sliver
1993Highlight

Best Picture

Sliver