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Horwitz began his career as a bank teller in Los Angeles in the 1960s. He eventually founded the entertainment division at Beverly Hills National Bank. At the time, few banks would lend money to movie studios, and Beverly Hills National Bank\u2019s location on Wilshire Boulevard made it highly accessible for creative clientele.<\/p>\n
More versed in the entertainment industry\u2019s inner-mechanisms than many of his banker colleagues, Horwitz convinced Beverly Hills National Bank to lend Mary Tyler Moore<\/a> a loan against a deal memo, which helped her create \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/a>\u201d in 1970 as well as her Mtm Production Company. It was the first of many star-driven deals that Horwitz would facilitate for the bank before it was bought by Wells Fargo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Horwitz then moved to the First Los Angeles Bank,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lewis Horwitz, the American film executive and producer dubbed Hollywood\u2019s \u201cKing of Indie Film Finance,\u201d died on Dec. 19. He was 90. Horwitz began his career as a bank teller in Los Angeles in the 1960s. He eventually founded the entertainment division at Beverly Hills National Bank. At the time, few banks would lend money […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2209118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2209117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lew-Horwitz-Producer-Known-as-the-\u2018King-of-Indie-Film.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209119,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209117\/revisions\/2209119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}