Edward R. Pressman was an American film producer and founder of the production company Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation. Pressman was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Lynn and Jack Pressman, known as the “King of Marbles”, who founded the Pressman Toy Corporation.

Edward R. Pressman Children: Meet Sam Pressman

His wife Annie McEncroe Pressman and son Sam Pressman, who has spent the last ten years working for his father’s Edward R. Pressman Film Corp and will continue to do so, are his only surviving family members.

The US producer died in Los Angeles on January 17. A statement said he “passed away peacefully surrounded by friends, family, and members of the Pressman Film company”.

Pressman studied philosophy at Stanford University before attending graduate school at the London School of Economics where he met director Paul Williams. In 1966, the two collaborated on the short film Girl, based on the Beatles’ song of the same name.