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Ivan Reitman

Film Producer / Film Director / Screenwriter / Theatre Director | * 10/27/1946 († 75, 02/12/2022) | Komárno, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]
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Ivan Reitman (October 27, 1946 – February 12, 2022) was a Canadian film director and producer. He was known for his comedy films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998. Films he directed include Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Dave (1993), Junior (1994) and Draft Day (2014). Reitman also served as producer for such films as National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Documentaries | Fantasy

Known for these Movies & Shows

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural p ...

Ghostbusters

FSK: 12+ years

1984 | 3.7/5 | 1h 47min
Comedy, Fantasy
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The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. ...

Heavy Metal

FSK: 16+ years

1981 | 3.2/5 | 1h 30min
Animation, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Music
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A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and ...

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

FSK: 12+ years

1992 | 2.7/5 | 1h 27min
Action, Comedy
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Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes ...

Up in the Air

FSK: 0+ years

2009 | 3.4/5 | 1h 50min
Drama, Romance / Love
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Awards & Nominations for Ivan Reitman

Officer of The Order of Canada Canada's Walk of Fame Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Academy Award for Best Picture Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
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Movies with Ivan Reitman as Actor(15)

as Self (archive footage)2020 Belushi
as himself2020 Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
as himself2020 Who You Gonna Call?
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)2019 Fantastic Mr. Murray
as himself2016 Ghostheads
as Self / Film Director2015 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
2014 Time Is But a Window: Ghostbusters 2 and Beyond
2014 Who You Gonna Call?: A Ghostbusters Retrospective
as Self - Closing Credits Sequence (uncredited)2009 Hotel for Dogs
as himself2008 On Screen!: Shivers
as himself2008 Animal House: The Inside Story
as himself1999 Imagining 'Heavy Metal'
as Himself - Producer1998 The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
as Man Walking Outside Firehouse / Slimer (voice) (uncredited)1989 Ghostbusters II
as Zuul / Slimer (voice) (uncredited)1984 Ghostbusters

TV Shows/Series with Ivan Reitman as Actor(2)

as himself2020 Reunited Apart
as Self - Guest1968 The Dick Cavett Show

Movies with Ivan Reitman as Crew(72)

Production/Producer2024 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Production/Producer2021 Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Production/Executive Producer2021 Space Jam: A New Legacy
Production/Producer2020 A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting
Production/Executive Producer2020 Godmothered
Production/Producer2017 Father Figures
Production/Producer2017 Baywatch
Production/Producer2016 Ghostbusters
Directing/Director2014 Draft Day
Production/Producer2014 Draft Day
Production/Producer2012 Hitchcock
Directing/Director2011 No Strings Attached
Production/Producer2011 No Strings Attached
Production/Producer2010 Chloe
Production/Executive Producer2009 I Love You, Man
Production/Producer2009 Post Grad
Production/Producer2009 Up in the Air
Production/Executive Producer2009 The Uninvited
Production/Executive Producer2007 Disturbia
Directing/Director2006 My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Production/Executive Producer2004 EuroTrip
Production/Executive Producer2003 Old School
Production/Executive Producer2002 Killing Me Softly
Directing/Director2001 Evolution
Production/Producer2001 Evolution
Production/Executive Producer2000 Road Trip
Directing/Director1998 Six Days Seven Nights
Production/Producer1998 Six Days Seven Nights
Production/Producer1997 Private Parts
Directing/Director1997 Fathers' Day
Production/Producer1997 Fathers' Day
Production/Executive Producer1996 The Late Shift
Production/Producer1996 Space Jam
Directing/Director1994 Junior
Production/Producer1994 Junior
Directing/Director1993 Dave
Production/Producer1993 Dave
Production/Executive Producer1993 Beethoven's 2nd
Production/Executive Producer1992 Beethoven
Production/Producer1992 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Directing/Director1990 Kindergarten Cop
Production/Producer1990 Kindergarten Cop
Directing/Director1989 Ghostbusters II
Production/Producer1989 Ghostbusters II
Directing/Director1988 Twins
Production/Producer1988 Twins
Production/Executive Producer1988 Feds
Production/Executive Producer1988 Casual Sex?
Directing/Director1986 Legal Eagles
Production/Producer1986 Legal Eagles
Writing/Story1986 Legal Eagles
Directing/Director1984 Ghostbusters
Production/Producer1984 Ghostbusters
Directing/Director1981 Stripes
Production/Producer1981 Stripes
Production/Producer1981 Heavy Metal
Directing/Director1979 Meatballs
Production/Executive Producer1978 Blackout
Production/Producer1978 Animal House
Production/Executive Producer1977 Rabid
Sound/Music Supervisor1977 Rabid
Production/Producer1977 Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia
Production/Producer1976 Death Weekend
Production/Producer1975 Shivers
Directing/Director1973 Cannibal Girls
Production/Executive Producer1973 Cannibal Girls
Writing/Story1973 Cannibal Girls
Directing/Director1971 Foxy Lady
Editing/Editor1971 Foxy Lady
Production/Producer1971 Foxy Lady
Writing/Writer1971 Foxy Lady
Directing/Director1968 Orientation

TV Shows/Series with Ivan Reitman as Crew(2)

Production/Producer1997 Mummies Alive!
Production/Producer1979 Delta House

Full Name: Ivan Reitman
Citizenships: Canada, Czechoslovakia (former country)
Born: Sunday, 10/27 1946 (October) in Komárno, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]
Died: Saturday, 02/12 2022 (February) in Montecito (aged: 75)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN), Slovak (SK)
Educated at: McMaster University
Spouses (current/former): Geneviève Robert
Ivan Reitman frequently works together with these people:
Joe Medjuck (32x, Crew)
Sheldon Kahn (27x, Crew)
Dan Aykroyd (22x, Actor)
Daniel Goldberg (21x, Crew)
Tom Pollock (20x, Crew)
Harold Ramis (19x, Crew)
Gordon A. Webb (15x, Crew)
Jason Reitman (13x, Crew)
Michael C. Gross (13x, Crew)
Bill Murray (12x, Actor)
Catherine Reitman (10x, Actress)
Seth Kearsley (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:8503, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 04/12/2024