Ralph Winter

Ralph Winter is a Hollywood film producer who has produced blockbuster movies such as the X-Men and Fantastic Four series. He currently has an overall first look deal with 20th Century Fox.

Winter also is active in producing Christian movies, such as the recently release Thr3e, based on Ted Dekker's book. Besides Thr3e, Winter has also produced the film Hangman's Curse, which was another novel-to-movie creation written by Christian author Frank Peretti. Another movie has just wrapped, written by both authors, titled House, which is to be released in theaters in 2007.

Ralph Winter is a native of Glendale, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley where he studied History. His first experience in production was producing training videos for Broadway Department Stores. In 1978, Winter started working in the film business for Paramount Pictures television, where he worked on Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork and Mindy. Following his experiences in television he started working alongside Harve Bennett on the Star Trek films. He was an associate producer on Star Trek III, executive producer on Star Trek IV, and producer on both Star Trek V and VI.

Winter is a Presbyterian and his faith influenced him to make a movie based on the Left Behind series of books.

Winter is also a partner in ThomasWinterCooke, which produces television commercials and represents a number of commercial directors.

Winter is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

He has helped along such film schools as the Veracity Project.

Recently, it was announced he is producing a film version of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. [1]

Another Ralph D. Winter founded the U.S. Center for World Mission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Center_for_World_Mission

Filmography

• 2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
• 2007 Thr3e
• 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand
• 2006 The Visitation (film)
• 2005 Fantastic Four
• 2003 Blizzard
• 2003 X2
• 2001 Planet of the Apes
• 2000 X-Men
• 2000 Left Behind: The Movie
• 1999 Inspector Gadget
• 1998 Mighty Joe Young
• 1996 High Incident
• 1995 Hackers
• 1994 The Puppet Masters
• 1993 Hocus Pocus
• 1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• 1991 Plymouth
• 1989 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• 1986 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• 1984 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

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