Ralph Winter

Ralph Frederick Winter born April 24 1952 is an American film producer who has helped to produce blockbuster movies such as the XMen Fantastic Four and Star Trek series as well as I Robot and Planet of the Apes His films have grossed collectively over 2 billion USD Winter is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences He has helped along such film schools as the Veracity Project and Biola University and lectured at Regent College Vancouver Winter was born in Glendale California the son of Effie Audrey Crawford and Charles Frederick Winter He attended the University of California Berkeley where he studied history His first experience in production was producing training videos for Broadway Department Stores In 1978 Winter started working in the film business for Paramount Pictures television where he worked on Happy Days Laverne Shirley and Mork and Mindy Following his experiences in television he started working alongside Harve Bennett on the Star Trek films He was an associate producer on Star Trek III The Search for Spock executive producer on Star Trek IV The Voyage Home and Star Trek V The Final Frontier and producer on Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country Winter is also active in producing Christian movies such as Three based on Ted Dekkers book and Hangmans Curse and The Visitation both of which were noveltomovie creations written by Christian author Frank Peretti His latest Christian film House was released in March 2009 In 2010 Winter partnered with producer Terry Botwick to form the production company 1019 Entertainment The company has produced the films Cool It and Captive Winter is a Christian and his faith influenced him to cooperate on a movie based on the Left Behind series of books although he left that project before it was completed Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Winter producer licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia