Chicago-born Bernard Glasser grew up in what he calls "the movie
generation" and fell in love with pictures at the ripe old age of four.
In the late 1940s, while working as a teacher at Beverly Hills High
School, he got his feet wet in the film industry by working as a
production assistant. In 1950 he invested in an old motion picture
studio and turned it into a rental lot, Keywest Studios. Glasser leased
his facility to producers like Roger Corman
(Der rasende teufel (1954)),
Burt Lancaster
(Massai, der große Apache (1954)) and others as well as
using the facilities to make a five-day, $50,000 film of his
own--The Three Stooges'
Gold Raiders (1951), directed by
Glasser's friend Edward Bernds. When
Glasser's studio lease expired in 1955, he and Bernds combined forces
on a series of budget features for
Robert L. Lippert's Regal Films.
Working overseas during the 1960s, often in collaboration with
producer/writer Philip Yordan, Glasser
added to his filmography such well-remembered films as
Die letzte Schlacht (1965),
Blumen des Schreckens (1963)
and Ein Riß in der Welt (1965).
