Biography
Marvin Worth (6 June 1925 – 22 April 1998) was an American film producer, screenwriter and actor. He began his career as a teenager promoting jazz concerts in New York and later managed comedians including Lenny Bruce.
Worth produced the 1974 biographical film Lenny, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. He spent over two decades developing a project about Malcolm X, acquiring the rights to the autobiography in 1967; this resulted in the 1972 documentary Malcolm X, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and the 1992 feature film directed by Spike Lee.
Among his other productions were The Rose (1979), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), Diabolique (1996) and the television film Gia (1998). He received further award nominations including an Emmy for Gia.
