He worked on 'Caged Heat,' 'Cockfighter' and 'Cannonball!' and later promoted Australian films like 'Mad Max' in the U.S.
Gelfman then partnered with former auto import executive James G. Robinson in the creation of a new production company. He "worked tirelessly but fruitlessly" with Robinson for a few years before semi-retiring in the late '80s, his son said.
Samuel William Gelfman was born in Brooklyn on May 30, 1931, the youngest of two boys. Raised in Caldwell, New Jersey, he graduated with a degree in architecture from Princeton University in 1953 after a two-year stint in the U.S. Army. After college, Gelfman moved to New York and landed a job with Candida Donadio's talent agency, which represented such writers such as Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud. He then parlayed a job as a gofer for Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin's company into working as a producer with Ted Flicker at The Premise, a pioneering improvisational theater in Greenwich Village.
Gelfman was hired by UA to be its vice president in charge of New York production, and the rise of Sidney Lumet and Woody Allen in the early 1970s gave his office a big boost. Survivors include his ex-wife, literary agent Jane Rosenberg Gelfman; children Peter, Polly and Andrew Gelfman, an editor and cameraman at NASA TV in Washington; and grandchildren Juliet, Elijah and Max.
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