Chronology

Significant dates in the life of Andreas (Andrew) Julius Kuehn, Jr.

1937: Born, September 24th in Chicago Illinois. Father Andreas Julius Kuehn, Sr. Mother, Eva Ekenberg Kuehn.
1951: Moved to LaGrange, Illinois. Attends LaGrange High School.
1955: Graduated, LaGrange High School; Enrolled LaGrange Community College.
1957: Attends University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, taking classes within the department of Film, Radio and Television.
1958-1960: Writes, produces and directs commercials for Bob Lorie Films,advertising local merchants at drive-in theatres.
Writes, produces and directs radio show featuring interviews conducted with celebrities and entertainers working the Fontainebleau and Eden Roc Hotel showrooms.
1960: Moved to New York City.
Takes job as Publicity Manager for Allenberry Playhouse in Allenberry, Pennsylvania.
1961-1963: Returns to New York for a job with National Screen Service, writing and producing trailers. Builds reputation with work on important foreign films: “Rocco and his Brothers;” “Last Year at Marienbad;” “Shoot the Piano Player.”
1963-1967: Hired by MGM to head its newly formed advertising and promotion department. Responsible for trailers and TV spots.
Kuehn´s trailer for “Night of the Iguana” (1964) revolutionizes the trailer business in style, substance and advertising approach. Kuehn hires New York City editing house, Electra Films, to cut trailers instead of Studio Trailer Department and National Screen
Success with “Night of the Iguana” convinces MGM senior management to allow Kuehn to implement his ideas about trailer making and movie marketing.
1967: Kaleidoscope Films, successor to Electra Films is organized by Dan Davis and Mike Shapiro, to provide trailer services to the studios. Andy Kuehn leaves 2 MGM to partner with Davis. Shapiro takes Kuehn´s job at MGM.
1968-9: Kuehn and Davis produce Milton Moses Ginsberg´s controversial film,”Coming Apart,” starring Sally Kirkland and Rip Torn.
1971: Kuehn opens West-Coast office of Kaleidoscope to serve studio clients who have relocated back to Los Angeles. Kuehn, at Kaleidoscope, dominates trailer making for next three decades.
1972: “Airport;” “Poseidon Adventure” trailers
1973: “The Sting;” “The Exorcist” trailers
1974: “Towering Inferno” trailer
1975: “Jaws” trailer
1976: “Taxi Driver” trailer
1977: Directs “Flush.”
1978: “California Suite;” “Superman” Trailers
1979: “Saturday Night Fever;” “Aliens” trailers
1980: “Cruising;” “Divine Madness;”
1981: Becomes sole owner of Kaleidoscope Films.
1982: Directs and produces, “Lights, Camera, Annie” “E.T.;” “Poltergeist;” “Year of Living Dangerously” trailers
1984: Directs and produces “Terror in the Aisles” “Indiana Jones;” “Ghostbusters;” “Gremlins” trailers
1986: “Top Gun;” “Ferris Bueller Day Off” trailers
1987: “Fatal Attraction;” “Wall Street” trailers
1988: Co-Produces “D.O.A.” “Working Girl;” “Accused” trailers.
1989: “Abyss;” “Steel Magnolias” trailers.
1990: “Hamlet;” “Days of Thunder” trailers.
1991: “JFK;” “Prince of Tides” trailers.
1992: “Bodyguard;” “Malcolm X;” “Last of the Mohicans;” “Patriot Games” “Reservoir Dogs” trailers
1993: Awarded Key Art Lifetime Achievement honor “Jurassic Park;” “Schindler´s List” trailers
1994: Awarded Cannes Film Festival Lifetime Achievement honor.
“Natural Born Killers;” “Interview With a Vampire” trailers
1995: “Back to the Future;” “Braveheart” trailers
1996: “Evita;” “Independence Day;” “Mission Impossible,” “Twister;” “Air Force One” trailers
1997: “Men in Black;” “The Lost World;” “TITANIC” trailers
1998: “Saving Private Ryan;” “Shakespeare in Love;” “Truman Show” trailers
1999: Produces and directs “Get Bruce” for Miramax. Premieres at Sundance. “Any Given Sunday;” “Talented Mr. Ripley;” “Cider House Rules” trailers
2001: “Pearl Harbor” trailer
2002: Produces and directs the “Great American Songbook,” a three-hour documentary about the American popular song.
2003: Kuehn begins pre-production on “Coming Attractions: A History of the Movie Trailer.”
2004: Andrew J. Kuehn loses battle to lung cancer at his home in Laguna Beach, California.
Andrew J. Kuehn, Jr., Foundation is formed to honor and extend his legacy.
2005: “Coming Attractions: A History of the Movie Trailer” released.