- Nascido(a) em
- Falecido(a) em25 de maio de 2005 · Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido (após cirurgia para úlceras abdominais)
- Nome de nascimentoIsmail Noormohamed Abdul Rehman
- Ismail Merchant nasceu o 25 de dezembro de 1936 em Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [agora Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]. Era produtor e diretor e foi conhecido pelo seu trabalho em Retorno a Howards End (1992), Uma Janela para o Amor (1985) e Vestígios do Dia (1993). Morreu o 25 de maio de 2005 em Londres, Inglaterra.
- In addition to their 40-year-long professional partnership, Ismail Merchant and James Ivory were also longtime romantic partners.
- On location, producer Ismail Merchant was renowned for his cooking and feeding of cast & crew, a practice often necessary in Merchant/Ivory's earlier low-budget days.
- Merchant and Ivory formed Merchant Ivory Productions in May 1961. Their first picture was The Householder (1963) in 1963.
- He met his future partner, James Ivory, at a screening of Ivory's documentary The Sword and the Flute (1959) in New York City.
- The National Portrait Gallery in London has paintings of Ismail and his partners James Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - even though they all live in New York City and none of them are English. (Ruth is German/Polish, Ismail is Indian, and James is American).
- [on Denholm Elliott] He was an all-giving person, full of life. ... He had an affection and feeling for other actors, which is very unusual in our business.
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