Martin Rackin

Martin Rackin was born on Jul 31, 1918 in USA. Martin Rackin's big-screen debut came with Bombardier directed by Richard Wallace in 1943. Martin Rackin is known for The Horse Soldiers directed by John Ford, John Wayne stars as Col. John Marlowe and William Holden as Maj. Henry Kendall. The upcoming new movie Martin Rackin plays is Three Secrets which will be released on May 11, 1999.

Martin Rackin was born in New York City, New York, USA. He was the son of a silk mill owner, and started work as a hat store delivery boy. His work became lighter as a copy boy for the New York Mirror, where he became a publicist and speech writer.When the United States entered WWII (1941), Rackin went to Hollywood and served his time with the U.S. Air Force, and that experience served as inspiration for several of his next screenplays. He continued writing for the movie industry, and became a director for eighteen episodes of The Red Skelton Show (1951), where he befriended the comedy screenwriter John Lee Mahin.In 1958, he started a production company with his friend Mahin, known as Mahin-Rackin Productions, which proved fruitful in terms of writing, and production, namely with Les cavaliers (1959), and Le grand Sam (1960). That project too, came to an end as Rackin became head of production at Paramount (1960-1964), but his aim at independent production led him to leave, and start his own production company, Martin Rackin Productions.He died on April 15, 1976 in London, England.