Mario Kassar

Mario Kassar
Mario Kassar (right) with the director and stars of Basic Instinct at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Born	October 10, 1951 (1951-10-10) Beirut, Lebanon
Occupation	Film producer

Mario F. Kassar (Arabic: ماريو قصار‎; born October 10, 1951) is a film producer and industry executive whose projects are frequently in association with Andrew G. Vajna.

Kassar was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Working for Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures, he was executive producer of several movies starting with Victory in 1981. In 1976, together with Vajna, he founded Carolco Pictures where he was executive producer of many films, beginning with the Rambo series, and including many science fiction films such as Total Recall, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Universal Soldier and Stargate. He has been nominated for 12 Academy Awards.

Filmography

• The Amateur (1981)
• Victory (1981)
• First Blood (1982)
• Superstition (1982)
• Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
• Extreme Prejudice (1987)
• Angel Heart (1987)
• Red Heat (1988)
• Rambo III (1988)
• Johnny Handsome (1989)
• DeepStar Six (1989)
• Jacob's Ladder (1990)
• Narrow Margin (1990)
• Air America (1990)
• Total Recall (1990)
• Mountains of the Moon (1990)
• Rambling Rose (1991)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• The Doors (1991)
• L.A. Story (1991)
• Chaplin (1992)
• Universal Soldier (1992)
• Basic Instinct (1992)
• Light Sleeper (1992)
• Heaven & Earth (1993)
• Cliffhanger (1993)
• Stargate (1994)
• Cutthroat Island (1995)
• Showgirls (1995)
• Last of the Dogmen (1995)
• Lolita (1997)
• I Spy (2002)
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
• Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008)
• Terminator Salvation (2009)
• Negative Space (2009)

External links

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• Mario Kassar at the Internet Movie Database