Marvin John Schwartz (January 10, 1928 – September 3, 1997)^[1] was an American film producer and publicist. He began producing by optioning the novel Blindfold, which became a 1966 film.^[2][3]

Schwartz was born in the Bronx, New York, to Sol Schwartz and Minnie Siegel, Yiddish-speaking Jewish emigrants from Russia and Austria, respectively. His father worked in the garment industry cutting furs.^[4] He died in Boulder Creek, California.^[5]

In Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Al Pacino plays a character with a similar name, Marvin Schwarz, who is Rick Dalton’s talent agent.^[6][7]

Select credits

• Blindfold (1966)
• The War Wagon (1967)
• 100 Rifles (1969)
• Hard Contract (1969)
• Tribes (1970)
• Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1971)
• Kid Blue (1973)