Henry G. Saperstein

Henry Gahagen "Hank" Saperstein was an American film producer and distributor. Saperstein inherited his father's cinema chain in Chicago before moving into television distribution. In 1955, he moved to Hollywood and purchased United Productions of America in 1960. At UPA, Saperstein produced the Mister Magoo television series and its spinoff television specials. He co-produced three Toho kaiju films from 1965 to 1966 and arranged for American actors Nick Adams and Russ Tamblyn to appear in the films. Saperstein would go on to work with Toho in the 1970s and 1980s and attempt to put together several Godzilla projects which never materialized. During the early 1990s, Saperstein was involved in negotiations with Hollywood studios for the production of a Hollywood Godzilla film. At the age of 80, he died of cancer in Beverly Hills on June 24, 1998.