Ismail Merchant Biography
Ismail Merchant Born(1936 – )
Occupation: Producer
Also: Director
Born: December 25, 1936, Bombay, India
Education: St. Xavier’s University, Bombay; New York University (business administration)
This Bombay-born producer is one half of the prolific Merchant/Ivory team which has been responsible for scores of literate, beautifully shot, languid, and sometimes erotic films since the mid-’60s. Though the uninformed often think “Merchant Ivory” is one man, Ismail Merchant and James Ivory did not meet until 1960, when Merchant was 24 and the California-born director Ivory was 32. Merchant had only co-produced one film up to that point, the Oscar-nominated 1960 short The Creation of Woman. But the two formed Merchant Ivory Productions and set about filming the first of their nearly 40 films together
Ismail Merchant Work
| 1957 | Venice: Theme and Variations | producer | |
| 1959 | The Sword and the Flute | producer | |
| 1960 | The Creation of Woman | producer | |
| 1963 | The Householder | producer | |
| 1964 | The Delhi Way | producer | |
| 1965 | Shakespeare Wallah | producer | |
| 1969 | The Guru | producer, performer | |
| 1970 | Bombay Talkie | producer | |
| 1972 | Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization | producer | |
| 1972 | Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls | producer | |
| 1973 | Mahatma and the Mad Boy | producer, director | |
| 1974 | Savages | producer | |
| 1975 | Autobiography of a Princess | executive producer | |
| 1975 | The Wild Party | producer | |
| 1976 | Sweet Sounds | producer | |
| 1977 | Roseland | producer | |
| 1979 | The Europeans | producer | |
| 1979 | Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie’s Pictures | producer | |
| 1980 | Jane Austen in Manhattan | producer | |
| 1981 | Quartet | producer | |
| 1982 | The Courtesans of Bombay | producer, director, screenwriter | |
| 1983 | Heat and Dust | producer | |
| 1984 | The Bostonians | producer, director, screenwriter | |
| 1985 | A Room with a View | producer | |
| 1986 | My Little Girl | executive producer | |
| 1987 | Maurice | producer | |
| 1988 | The Deceivers | producer | |
| 1988 | The Perfect Murder | executive producer | |
| 1989 | Slaves of New York | producer | |
| 1990 | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | producer | |
| 1991 | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | producer | |
| 1992 | Howards End | producer | |
| 1993 | In Custody | director | |
| 1993 | Ladybird, Ladybird | director | |
| 1993 | The Remains of the Day | co-producer | |
| 1995 | Feast of July | executive producer | |
| 1995 | Jefferson In Paris | performer | |
| 1996 | The Proprietor | director | |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | producer |
