Career Highlights: Brute Force, Naked City, Fixed Bayonets
First Major Screen Credit: The Battle of San Pietro (1944)
Biography
American producer Jules Buck began his career as a cameraman in the Signal Corps during WW II. There he helped make numerous war documentaries with such directors as John Huston. Following military service Buck moved to Hollywood and began working as an assistant producer. He worked as an associate producer through the late 1940s; in the 1950s, he became a full-fledged producer of average Hollywood films. In the late 1950s, he moved to England and with Peter O'Toole co-founded Keep Films, Ltd. The company produced, in conjunction with American producers, such films as Becket (1964) and Lord Jim (1965). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide