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Ivan Tors (born Iván Törzs, June 12, 1916 Budapest, Austria-Hungary – June 4, 1983) was a Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, and film and television producer with an emphasis on non-violent but exciting science fiction, underwater filmed television and films, and films about animals. He started a Miami based film studio now known as Greenwich Studios, and later a music company. Tors wrote several plays in his native country before moving to the U.S. just prior to World War II. He enlisted in the US Army Air Corps then transferred to the Office of Strategic Services.... MORE

Ivan Tors (born Iván Törzs, June 12, 1916 Budapest, Austria-Hungary – June 4, 1983) was a Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, and film and television producer with an emphasis on non-violent but exciting science fiction, underwater filmed television and films, and films about animals. He started a Miami based film studio now known as Greenwich Studios, and later a music company. Tors wrote several plays in his native country before moving to the U.S. just prior to World War II. He enlisted in the US Army Air Corps then transferred to the Office of Strategic Services. Following the war he was contracted to MGM as a screenwriter. In 1952 Tors made Storm over Tibet, his first film as co-writer and producer. He began his partnership with fellow Hungarian Andrew Marton with this film. Long interested in fact-based science fiction (often with an underwater setting), Tors partnered with actor Richard Carlson in the 1950s to create A-Men Films, a production company devoted to making movies about its own fictitious exploits. Under the A-Men banner, Tors wrote and produced films such as The Magnetic Monster (1951), Gog (1954), Riders to the Stars (1954) and the TV series LESS