Patrick Montgomery
| Patrick Montgomery | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 13, 1949 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Notre Dame |
| Occupation | Film and Photo Archivist |
| Known for | The Man You Loved to Hate, The Compleat Beatles |
Patrick Montgomery is an American documentary producer/director and film and photo archivist. He has specialized in making films using archival materials, most notably The Man You Loved to Hate (1979) about the legendary actor/director Erich Von Stroheim and The Compleat Beatles (1982) a two-hour documentary about the rise and fall of the world's most famous rock group. He also founded and ran Archive Films/Archive Photos, the largest independent commercial film and photo archive in the U.S. until its acquisition by The Image Bank, a division of Eastman Kodak, in 1997.
Patrick Montgomery was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 13, 1949. He graduated from St Xavier High School in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Finance degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1971.
Montgomery began his career in 1972 as a marketing executive at Audio Visual Enterprises, Inc, a firm founded by former Cincinnati Symphony General Manager Lloyd Haldeman to distribute opera and ballet films for home viewing on videodisc.
Montgomery moved to New York in 1974 and landed a job with Killiam Shows, Inc., a company founded in the early 1950s by Paul Killiam to acquire, restore and distribute American silent films and produce television programs about them. While with Killiam he was involved in the restoration and distribution of many classic films, including F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927) and It (1927) starring Clara Bow. He was also a founding member of the Non-Theatrical Film Distributors Association in 1974. His first film as a producer/director (with Luciano Martenengo) was George Melies: Cinema Magician (1978), produced for Blackhawk Films, followed by The Man You Loved To Hate (1979), a co-production with the BBC and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. In his New York Times review, Vincent Canby called the The Man You Loved To Hate “cinema history of both entertaining and high order.”
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