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Walter Mirisch, Oscar-winning producer, dead at 101

FILE - President Walter Mirisch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences stands outside the new headquarters, in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sept. 16, 1975. Mirisch, the astute and Oscar winning film producer who oversaw such classics as “Some Like It Hot,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” has died of natural causes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. He was 101. (AP Photo/George Brich, File)

FILE - Walter Mirisch arrives at 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival's Opening Night Gala at the TCL Chinese Theatre on April 10, 2014, in Los Angeles. Mirisch, the astute and Oscar winning film producer who oversaw such classics as "Some Like It Hot," "West Side Story" and "In the Heat of the Night," has died of natural causes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. He was 101. (Photo by Annie I. Bang/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Walter Mirisch arrives at 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival's Opening Night Gala at the TCL Chinese Theatre on April 10, 2014, in Los Angeles. Mirisch, the astute and Oscar winning film producer who oversaw such classics as “Some Like It Hot,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” has died of natural causes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. He was 101. (Photo by Annie I. Bang/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Walter Mirisch, right, and Charlton Heston celebrate at the 34th annual Golden Globe awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, on Jan. 29, 1977. Mirisch, the astute and Oscar winning film producer who oversaw such classics as “Some Like It Hot,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” has died of natural causes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. He was 101. (AP Photo, File)

Walter Mirisch, Oscar-winning producer, dead at 101