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Al Pacino appears in the title role of the 1973 film Serpico, directed by Sydney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman.The Associated Press

Martin Bregman, the outspoken, tenacious film producer behind Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico and other late-20th-century crime dramas, died Saturday. He was 92.

The first film Mr. Bergman ever produced was Sidney Lumet’s Serpico (1973), the true story of a New York cop who blew the whistle on police corruption and paid for it dearly. The film was also the beginning of a new kind of relationship with its star, Al Pacino, a former client who was then 33 and fresh from The Godfather. The pair and Mr. Lumet followed that with the offbeat bank-robbery drama Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

Their next collaboration, on Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1983), was the story of a violent Cuban-American drug lord in Miami whose line “Say hello to my little friend” (referring to his sizable automatic weapon) entered film immortality.

That film’s premise was mirrored by Carlito’s Way (1993), also directed by Mr. De Palma, with Mr. Pacino as a Puerto Rican criminal trying to go straight. In between, Mr. Bregman and Mr. Pacino did Sea of Love (1989), a crime drama about a detective and a serial killer who targets lonely men.

When Mr. Bregman wasn’t working on projects about gangsters and violence, he seemed to have a soft spot for relationship stories with a touch of idealism and wistful comedy. He produced five films with Alan Alda, beginning with The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979), about a U.S. senator compromising his principles. Mr. Alda starred in, wrote and directed their next films together: The Four Seasons (1981), Sweet Liberty (1986), A New Life (1988) and Betsy’s Wedding (1990).

Martin Leon Bregman was born in the Bronx on May 18, 1926, the son of Leon and Ida (Granowski) Bregman. He had polio as a child, but recovered and attended Indiana University and New York University. He eventually became a personal manager for stars including Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen and Faye Dunaway. He signed Mr. Pacino in 1968 and continued to represent him for years.

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