Keith Samples

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Keith Samples
Born1955or1956(age 66–67) [1]
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active1975–present
Employer Rysher Entertainment (1991-1999)
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Keith Samples (born 1955 or 1956 [1] ) is an American filmmaker and former syndication executive. [2] [3] [4]

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He graduated in 1977 at the Texas Tech University and pursued a sports career. [2]

He was founder of the film and television production company Rysher Entertainment. He was originally senior vice president of Lorimar-Telepictures, before landing a job at Warner Bros. Television and Walt Disney Television to help them develop projects for syndication. [1]

During his time at Rysher Entertainment, he grew the company into the biggest movie-making producers in history, developing their own movie projects. [5] On May 27, 1997, he resigned from Rysher Entertainment and pursue his own projects. [6] He went on to be a movie maker/television director/producer after leaving Rysher, starting his own production company to develop motion pictures and television shows. [7]

For a short period of time, in 2008, he worked at Media Rights Capital's television division. [8] He infamously developed The CW's own Sunday night programming block under a time-lease agreement, but it flopped after a few viewings and poor ratings. [9] [10] He was fired after only a few months working at MRC. [11]

Filmography

Film and Short Film

Television

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