Howard Winchel Koch Jr. (born December 14, 1945), also known as Hawk Koch, is an American film producer. Throughout his career, he was involved in the production of over 50 major films, including Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Way We Were (1973), Chinatown (1974), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Wayne's World (1992) and its 1993 sequel, Primal Fear (1996), Fracture (2007), and Source Code (2011). Koch is currently a director for AMC Entertainment, the Motion Picture and Television Fund, and the National Film Preservation Foundation, and he previously served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America. Koch is a former road manager for The Supremes and The Dave Clark Five musical groups. In 2019, he published his memoir, Magic Time: My Life in Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hawk Koch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2013Christmas in Conway — Executive Producer
• 2013Very Good Girls — Executive Producer
• 2011Source Code — Executive Producer
• 2010Norman — Producer
• 2008Untraceable — Producer
• 2007Blood and Chocolate — Producer
• 2007Fracture — Executive Producer
• 2005Hostage — Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager
• 2004The Riverman — Producer
• 2002Collateral Damage — Executive Producer
• 2000Frequency — Producer
• 2000Keeping the Faith — Producer
• 1997The Beautician and the Beast — Producer
• 1996Primal Fear — Executive Producer
• 1995Losing Isaiah — Producer
• 1995Virtuosity — Executive Producer
• 1993Sliver — Executive Producer
• 1993The Temp — Executive Producer
• 1993Wayne's World 2 — Executive Producer
• 1992Wayne's World — Executive Producer
• 1991Necessary Roughness — Executive Producer
• 1990The Long Walk Home — Producer
• 1989Rooftops — Producer
• 1984The Pope of Greenwich Village — Producer
• 1983A Night in Heaven — Producer
• 1983Gorky Park — Producer
• 1983The Keep — Producer
• 1981Honky Tonk Freeway — Producer
• 1979The Frisco Kid — Executive Producer
• 1978Heaven Can Wait — Executive Producer, Assistant Director
• 1975The Drowning Pool — Associate Producer, Assistant Director
• 1974Chinatown — Assistant Director
• 1974The Parallax View — First Assistant Director
• 1971Fools' Parade — Assistant Director
• 1971Going Home — Assistant Director
• 1971The Hired Hand — Assistant Director
• 1970Getting Straight — Assistant Director
• 1970The Baby Maker — Assistant Director
• 1969Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice — El Taco Employee (voice) (uncredited), Second Assistant Director
• 1968Rosemary's Baby — Dialogue Coach
• Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
• Untitled The Idolmaker Remake — Producer

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2024Faye — Self
• 2024Good Men — Self
• Reunited Apart — Self
• 2008Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired — Self
• 2007Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story — Self