Ilya Salkind

Ilya Juan Salkind Dominguez, (July 27, 1947 in Mexico City), usually known as Ilya Silkind, is a film and television producer, well known for his contributions to the live-action Superman films of the 1970s and 80s alongside his father, Alexander Salkind. At the age of one, Salkind was photographed sitting on the lap of Zsa Zsa Gabor. His grandfather, Mikhail Salkind, was one of the pioneers of silent films and produced Joyless Street (1925), fea... more

Ilya Juan Salkind Dominguez, (July 27, 1947 in Mexico City), usually known as Ilya Silkind, is a film and television producer, well known for his contributions to the live-action Superman films of the 1970s and 80s alongside his father, Alexander Salkind. At the age of one, Salkind was photographed sitting on the lap of Zsa Zsa Gabor. His grandfather, Mikhail Salkind, was one of the pioneers of silent films and produced Joyless Street (1925), featuring then-relatively-unknown Greta Garbo in her first major role. Afterwards, Mikhail, along with Ilya's own father, Alexander Salkind, joined their forces to supervise many successful films, from Orson Welles' The Trial (1962) to Abel Gance's Austerlitz (1959). Beginning in 1969, Ilya Salkind became the third generation of this legendary movie-making dynasty. He and Alexander made numerous films, starting with The Three Musketeers (1973) and its 1974 follow-up, The Four Musketeers, one of the first instances of which a major motion picture... less