- R. Ben Efraim was born on a kibbutz north of Tel Aviv, and educated at Hebrew University. Efraim first produced entertainment and public affairs programming for Israeli National Radio, then edited the Armed Forces newspaper. On a 1964 research junket to New York, he came into contact with veteran television producer Dan Enright, then an executive at Screen Gems, the TV divison of Columbia Pictures. Enright, who had spent his childhood in British Palestine, immediately befriended the young Israeli, providing advice, assistance and encouragement. It was, in fact, at Enright's suggestion that Efraim set out eight years later to produce his own films. Working from London, he put together a modestly budgeted political thriller, "The Jerusalem File," starring Nicol Williamson, Bruce Davidson and Donald Pleasence, distributed by MGM. Travelling back to New York, he formed a production partnership with former MGM executive vice-president Benjamin Melniker. Between 1974 and 1976 they made two action pictures: "Mitchell," starring Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, Linda Evans and Merline Olsen, and "Shoot," starring Cliff Robertson, Ernest Borgnine and Henry Silva. They in 1977, he moved out to Los Angeles and into a three-way partnership with his longtime friend Dan Enright and Enright's partner, Jack Barry. Placed in charge of Barry & Enright Films -- Efraim first produced "Search And Destroy," starring Perry King, Don Stroud and George Kennedy. His second project was "Private Lessons." Ben Efraim now lives in Brentwood, not far from his Unity offices, in a Tudor-style manor house his English wife Anne finds comfortably reminiscent of the ones at home. The Efraims have two sons, Adam and Daniel.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
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