Peter S. Traynor, a former insurance salesman who directed and produced the cult favorite 'Death Game,' has died at age 77
Traynor also served as an uncredited producer on the 1974 blaxpoitation film Born and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, Traynor graduated from Newton North High School in 1959. He left Boston University in 1962 to come to San Francisco, where he landed a job selling insurance. Penn Mutual named him "the highest producer in the company's 120-year history" in 1967 and credited him with $8.5 million in sales.
A few years later, Traynor formed an investment company called Leverage Funding Systems that catered to doctors seeking tax-shelter schemes, a business model that he brought to the film industry and , featuring demolition-derby driver Dusty Russell, and , starring Claudia Jennings — low-budget exploitation features made in partnership with writer-director Mark L.
Traynor later worked in the medical and fitness sectors in direct marketing via videocassette; directed a sales film for Ford Motor Co. using Buster Keaton footage and the voice of Laurence Olivier; and launched the fashion label Icon, creating custom shoes painted with works of art by Andy Warhol and others.
A month before his death, he was interviewed on camera by Roth for Grindhouse's upcoming Blu-ray release of Survivors include his daughter, Dyan, a writer and producer, and his partner of 40 years, Susan Hanger.
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