OAK VIEW : Howard Christie, Film Producer, Dies
Howard Christie, a film producer whose more than 40 movies featured actors as disparate as Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and Rock Hudson and Deanna Durbin, has died at his Ventura County home.
His son, John, said Thursday that his father was 79 when he died Wednesday night in Oak View of what was described as a long illness.
A native of San Francisco who began his career as an actor after attending UC Berkeley, Christie’s earliest films as a producer, mainly for Universal-International, included “Lady on a Train” with Durbin and Ralph Bellamy, and “Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man.”
His other films included “Away All Boats,” “Comin’ Round the Mountain,” “The Purple Mask,” “Seminole” (with Hudson and Anthony Quinn), “Sword of Ali Baba” and several more Abbott and Costello pictures.
His TV credits included the Westerns “Wagon Train,” “Laredo” and “The Virginian.”
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