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Nicholas Nayfack (January 27, 1909 – March 31, 1958) was an American movie producer whose notable works include Forbidden Planet and The Invisible Boy. He was the nephew of MGM studio chief Nicholas Schenck and United Artists studio boss Joseph M. Schenck.
Nayfack worked for 20th Century Fox as an associate producer under Darryl F. Zanuck from 1937 to 1939. After leaving Fox, he became the head of the business affairs office for MGM. He joined the Navy during World War II and was a lieutenant commander in the South Pacific. After the war he became a producer for MGM with his first picture Border Incident (1949). He formed his own company, Pan Productions with a distribution and financing deal with MGM who released his last film, The Invisible Boy (1957).
Nayfack died of a heart attack, aged 49, on March 31, 1958, at his Beverly Hills home.
Personal life
He married actress Lynne Carver in 1937 and they divorced in 1942. He later married Patricia Schmidt with whom he had a son, Nicholas Jr.
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