Elliott Kastner (born January 7, 1930, in New York City, to a Jewish family; died June 30, 2010, in London at age 80) was an American-British film producer. Raised by his mother in Harlem after his father's early death, he attended the University of Miami and Columbia University without documented degrees. He served in the U.S. Army during the 1950s with the United States European Command in Frankfurt and Paris. Kastner started his career in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency in New York, advanced to agent roles at Music Corporation of America (MCA) in Los Angeles, and briefly served as vice president of production at Universal Pictures under Lew Wasserman before becoming an independent producer in the mid-1960s. He formed Winkast Film Productions with Jerry Gershwin at Pinewood Studios in the UK, producing 11 films together, and over four decades produced more than 60 films, specializing in literary adaptations by authors like Alistair MacLean (Where Eagles Dare, When Eight Bells Toll), Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye), Ross Macdonald (Harper), Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, and Peter Shaffer (Equus). Notable films include The Missouri Breaks (1976, starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson), Angel Heart (1987), Farewell, My Lovely (1975), and Sweet November (2001). In the 1970s, he mentored Israeli producer Arnon Milchan and relocated to London, basing operations at Pinewood Studios. Later ventures included acquiring a majority stake in Cinema Group Home Video (1987) and Roger Corman's Concorde New Horizons for $100 million in the late 1990s. Personally, he married Carolyn Hughes in 1960 (divorced circa 1970s) and later Tessa Kennedy in 1971 (divorced 1990s), with whom he had two children: son Dillon and daughter Milica (or Milita); he was stepfather to Tessa's sons Cassian Elwes, Damian Elwes, and Cary Elwes. Kastner's career involved numerous lawsuits (e.g., from Marlon Brando, Mickey Rourke) and he declared bankruptcy in 1988, earning a reputation as charismatic but contentious for aggressive tactics.