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Nationality
  
American

Movies
  
These Old Broads

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Todd Fisher

Years active
  
1959–present


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Full Name
  
Todd Emmanuel Fisher

Born
  
February 24, 1958 (age 66) (
1958-02-24
)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.

Residence
  
Las Vegas and Creston, California

Occupation
  
Actor, director, producer, cinematographer, business executive, curator

Organization
  
Debbie Reynolds Hotel & Casino (CEO)Hollywood Motion Picture Museum (CEO)

Parents
  
Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher

Siblings
  
Carrie Fisher, Joely Fisher, Tricia Leigh Fisher

Spouse
  
Catherine Hickland (m. 2012), Christi Marie Zabel (m. 1989–2008), Donna Jean Freberg (m. 1981–1986)

Nieces
  
Billie Catherine Lourd, Skylar Grace Fisher-Duddy, True Harlow Fisher-Duddy, Olivia Luna Fisher-Duddy

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Todd Emmanuel Fisher (born February 24, 1958) is an American actor, director, cinematographer, and producer of television films and documentaries. Fisher is the son of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds.

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He has a professional background in architectural design and sound engineering, with experience designing and building sound stages, recording studios, and television facilities. Fisher is also a business executive; the former CEO, president, CFO, and treasurer of the Debbie Reynolds Hotel & Casino (DRHC), Debbie Reynolds Management Company, Inc., and Debbie Reynolds Resorts, Inc. As of 2013, he is the CEO and curator of the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum, which is housed at Debbie Reynolds Studios (DR Studios) in North Hollywood and at his ranch in Creston, California.

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Early and personal life

Fisher was born on February 24, 1958 in Burbank, California, to actors Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Fisher's paternal grandparents were Jewish Russian immigrants, while his mother's ancestry was Protestant, Scots-Irish, and English. Fisher, who was named after his father's best friend, Mike Todd, is the second of two children born to his parents. His sister, Carrie Fisher, was born in 1956.

His parents divorced in 1959. A later marriage between his father and actress Connie Stevens resulted in the births of Fisher's two half-sisters, Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher. In 1960, his mother married Harry Karl, owner of a chain of shoe stores. His mother and stepfather divorced in 1973, when Fisher was 15 years old.

Fisher attended Beverly Hills High School, graduating in 1976. Following high school graduation, he attended the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.

In 1980, Fisher became a born-again Christian and was subsequently ordained as a minister in 1982. Following his ordination, he founded Hiding Place Church, along with musician Henry Cutrona of Christian country rock band Gentle Faith. A non-denominational, charismatic congregation, the church first met in North Hollywood at his mother's DR Studios. After outgrowing that location, the church was moved to Beverly Theater in Beverly Hills. By 1986, the church had relocated from that location to Emerson Middle School in Westwood, Los Angeles, California with an average Sunday attendance of 1,000.

On February 15, 1981, Fisher married his high school sweetheart, Donna Freberg, daughter of Stan Freberg. After the couple's divorce, Fisher married Christi (née Zabel) Rivers. With their marriage, Fisher became stepfather to Vanessa, James and Brandon, Rivers' children from her marriage to singer Johnny Rivers. Fisher's wife died from cancer in 2008. Fisher then married actress-businessperson Catherine Hickland on December 25, 2012. The couple has a home in Las Vegas and a ranch in California.

Entertainment industry

Fisher's involvement in the entertainment industry began when he was an infant with his appearance in documentaries and short films about his mother. During his youth, Fisher began showing an interest in the technical aspects of filmmaking and focused his efforts on shooting commercials, short films, and documentaries. He was one of the youngest members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) labor union. As an adult, his technical and creative experience in professional technical and creative experience began in the 1980s. Fisher is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.

In the early 1980s, Fisher worked with Trinity Broadcasting Network, where he wrote, produced and directed the comedy television program Nightlight, starring as satirical television evangelist, Reverend Hype. The show was modeled on the NBC program Saturday Night Live and featured actors and comedians such as Dan Aykroyd, Jerry Houser, Miguel Ferrer, Rene Russo, and Bernie Leadon.

In 1991, he produced his first feature film, Twogether, starring Nick Cassavetes and Brenda Bakke.

Architectural design and sound engineering

In 1970, Fisher's mother began curating a large collection of Hollywood memorabilia starting with purchasing items from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer auction that same year. She spent $180,000, which accounted for the purchase of thousands of items, serving as the beginning of her ownership of movie memorabilia. In 1972, she established the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum (HMPM) as a federally tax-exempt corporation. The museum has been recognized as the largest individual collection of Hollywood memorabilia in the world.

In 1992, Reynolds and her husband Richard Hamlett bought the Paddlewheel Hotel & Casino at auction for $2.2 million. The purchase was made in anticipation of spending $15 million on renovations, which included plans for establishing a home for the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum. The Paddlewheel Hotel & Casino reopened in 1993, renamed The Debbie Reynolds Hotel & Casino. In 1994, Fisher designed the hotel and casino's 500-seat showroom, where Reynolds performed her nightclub act, songs from her career of over 50 years in the entertainment industry. The showroom also serves as a complete television production studio. In addition to the showroom, Fisher also conceived and designed the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum. When Reynolds struggled with the financing to complete the project, she decided to take the company public in order to raise funds. When the museum celebrated its opening the following year, it was one of the first sites in the United States to exhibit high-definition video projection.

Hotel, casino, and museum management

In March 1994, Fisher was appointed the chief financial officer and treasurer of the Debbie Reynolds Hotel & Casino, joining his mother, who served as chairman and secretary with both holding seats on the board of directors. When he assumed the role of CFO, it became evident that the hotel and casino was losing money each month, due to the company's poor capital structure and unsuccessful lease with the casino operator. Debbie eventually won a $10 million judgment in court against her former husband Richard Hamlett, in part for spurious financial dealing with the hotel and her personally. Additional board members of the Hollywood Museum have included Carrie Fisher, director George Lucas, Shirley MacLaine, and Elizabeth Taylor.

Upon assuming the role of CEO, Fisher began restructuring the company, in order to address financial mismanagement, diminished employee morale, and poor customer service and quality throughout the hotel, casino, and restaurant. Prior to March 31, 1996, Jackpot Enterprises contracted with the company to lease space to operate the casino in the hotel. The company gave notice of intent to terminate the lease agreement with Jackpot in February 1996, in accordance with the terms, owing to monthly loss of revenue on a consistent basis. Gambling operations discontinued as of March 31, 1996. By December 31, 1996, the company was in default, unable to make principal and interest payments on their mortgage. Payroll taxes of approximately $1,063,000, along with other accounts payable and accrued liabilities of approximately $3,643,000, were also in default.

In 1997, Fisher began pursuing avenues to sell the property to timeshare developer ILX (now known as Diamond Resorts International) for $16.8 million. After the deal fell through, Debbie Reynolds Hotel & Casino filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a reorganization plan. The company entered into a $22.5 million merger agreement with CFI (Central Florida Investments), also known as Westgate Resorts, which would have saved the hotel and the public company. The unsecured creditors rejected the deal and opted to auction the property hoping for a better deal. Over the objection of Management, the property was put up for auction the following year, with the winning bid at $10.65 million, going to the World Wrestling Federation.

By 1999, Reynolds and Fisher began preparing to move the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum to a new location near the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, which was scheduled to open in 2004. When the Los Angeles museum's lender could no longer fund the project, the museum was unable to complete construction on the property. In turn, they could not repay a $1.6 million bridge loan, which later became the center of a lawsuit filed against the museum by Gregory Orman.

While the lawsuit between the museum and Orman waged on in the courts, the museum signed a deal to anchor the proposed Belle Island Village tourist attraction, which was scheduled to debut in fall 2008, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. When the developer of the Belle Island Village resort met with financial struggles of their own, the construction lender Regions Bank foreclosed on the unfinished property. In response, the museum itself sought Chapter 11 protection in June 2009. The bank initially agreed to sell the resort property to Tennessee Investment Partners, which is partially owned by the real estate investment firm of Matisse Capital, the original developer of the proposed Belle Island Village. The purchase was scheduled to close by the end of March 2010, with assurances that the buyer intended to reinstate the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum as the centerpiece attraction of the new resort. The deal additionally called for agreements for the new investor to cover the lawsuit and financial claim made by Orman. When the sale of the property to Tennessee Investment Partners and subsequent plans to relocate the museum to Tennessee fell through, Reynolds and Fisher began making plans to liquidate the memorabilia collection.

Hollywood memorabilia auctions

In 2011, Reynolds and Fisher contracted with Profiles in History to begin auctioning the collection of Hollywood memorabilia, until enough proceeds were generated to pay off their creditors. In statements made to the press, Fisher announced that his mother was "heartbroken" to have to auction off her collection, which was valued at $10.79 million in the bankruptcy filing. The collection was sold in a series of auctions from June to December 2011.

On June 18, 2011, Marilyn Monroe's "subway dress", whose skirt is raised by the updraft of a passing subway train in The Seven Year Itch, sold for $4.6 million, far in excess of pre-auction estimates of $1–2 million. Another Monroe dress, worn in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, fetched $1.2 million; it had been expected to go for $200,000 to $300,000. Estimated at $60,000 to $80,000, a blue cotton dress Judy Garland used in test shots for The Wizard of Oz went for $910,000. In total, the auction grossed $22.8 million.

In the second auction, held on December 3, 2011, a still-functioning Panavision PSR 35 mm camera used to film Star Wars went for $520,000, breaking records for Star Wars memorabilia and vintage cameras.

Acting
As himself
Cinematography
Directing
Editing
Producing

Filmography

Director
-
Science of Survival (TV Series) (post-production)
2017
Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher Celebration of Life (TV Special)
1991
Movie Memories with Debbie Reynolds (TV Series) (12 episodes)
- Debbie Reynolds (1991)
- Ernest Borgnine (1991)
- Joan Caulfield (1991)
- Pat Crowley (1991)
- Russ Tamblyn (1991)
- James Stewart (1991)
- George Peppard (1991)
- Donald O'Connor (1991)
- Ricardo Montalban (1991)
- Ann Miller (1991)
- Jane Greer (1991)
- Jack Lemmon (1991)
Camera Department
2017
South Dakota (camera operator) / (cameraman: documentary crew)
2002
Cinerama Adventure (Documentary) (additional camera operator: Las Vegas, Nevada) / (camera operator)
1989
Blue Angels: A Backstage Pass (Video documentary short) (camera operator)
1988
Find Your Way Back: A Salute to the Space Shuttle (Video documentary) (camera operator)
1987
Our World (TV Series) (camera - 1 episode)
- Gone with the Wind: Making of a Classic- (1987) - (camera)
Producer
-
Science of Survival (TV Series) (producer) (post-production)
2017
Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher Celebration of Life (TV Special) (producer)
2016
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (TV Movie documentary) (producer)
1992
Twogether (co-producer)
Actor
2001
These Old Broads (TV Movie) as
Timothy
1969
Debbie Reynolds and the Sound of Children (TV Movie) as
Cub Scout
Writer
-
Science of Survival (TV Series) (post-production)
2017
Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher Celebration of Life (TV Special)
Editor
1992
Twogether
Thanks
-
Bollywood and Vine: The Original B-Movie Musical (the producers wish to thank) (pre-production)
2016
Finding Chambers (Short) (special thanks)
2012
In the Picture (Short) (thanks)
2010
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (TV Movie documentary) (very special thanks)
Self
2023
Daily Blast Live (TV Series) as
Self
- A Mother's Love (2023) - Self
2017
Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #42.202 (2023) - Self
- Episode #36.165 (2017) - Self
2021
King of Cool (Documentary) as
Self - Son of Debbie Reynolds
2021
The Hollywood Moment (TV Series) as
Self
- BJ Korros with All Star 99th Birthday Salute to Norman Lear (2021) - Self
2020
Autopsy: The Last Hours of (TV Series documentary) as
Self - (archival footage)
- Debbie Reynolds (2020) - Self - (archival footage)
2018
Larry King Now (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Todd Fisher on Life After Debbie Reynolds & Carrie Fisher (2018) - Self - Guest
- Todd Fisher on life after Debbie Reynolds & Carrie Fisher (2018) - Self - Guest
2018
Home & Family (TV Series) as
Self
- Guest Co-Host Colin Ferguson/Lamont Archey/Todd Fisher (2018) - Self
2018
CBS News Sunday Morning (TV Series) as
Self
- Take Friday Off/Debbie, Carrie and Todd/The Q/Changes/Give Me Your Tired/Sweetie Pie/Roger Rosenblatt (2018) - Self
2018
The Dr. Oz Show (TV Series) as
Self
- Your Personal Health Horoscope (2018) - Self
2018
Megyn Kelly Today (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.181 (2018) - Self
2017
Access Hollywood (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #21.173 (2017) - Self
- Episode #21.172 (2017) - Self
2016
Red Carpet Report (TV Series short) as
Self (Archival)
- Debbie Reynolds & Carrie Fisher Memorial (2016) - Self (Archival)
2016
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2016
The Slippers (Documentary) as
Self
2013
Praise (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 11 December 2013 (2013) - Self
- Episode dated 6 June 2013 (2013) - Self
2011
Hollywood Treasure (TV Series) as
Self
- Chamber of Secrets (2012) - Self
- Demons and Spacesuits and Slippers, Oh My (2011) - Self
1995
Carrie Fisher: The Hollywood Family (TV Special)
1995
This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary)
- Debbie Reynolds (1995)
1987
Hour Magazine (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 7 September 1987 (1987) - Self
1970
Life with Linkletter (TV Series) as
Self - son of Debbie Reynolds
- Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, Todd Fisher, Mark Russell (1970) - Self - son of Debbie Reynolds
1959
A Visit with Debbie Reynolds (Documentary short) as
Self - Baby Boy (uncredited)
Archive Footage
2017
Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #36.168 (2017) - Self
1963
Hollywood Without Make-Up (Documentary) as
Self as a Baby

References

Todd Fisher Wikipedia